réprimer
See also: reprimer
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʁe.pʁi.me/
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Verb
réprimer
- (transitive) to suppress, quell (stop the spread of something considered bad or wrong)
- (transitive) to repress, stifle (prevent the growth of)
- (transitive) to repress, muffle (prevent someone speaking out)
- (transitive) to hold back, to stunt (make someone refrain from doing something)
- (transitive) to cut down, subdue (reduce the level of, e.g. crime)
Conjugation
Conjugation of réprimer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | réprimer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | réprimant /ʁe.pʁi.mɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | réprimé /ʁe.pʁi.me/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | réprime /ʁe.pʁim/ |
réprimes /ʁe.pʁim/ |
réprime /ʁe.pʁim/ |
réprimons /ʁe.pʁi.mɔ̃/ |
réprimez /ʁe.pʁi.me/ |
répriment /ʁe.pʁim/ |
| imperfect | réprimais /ʁe.pʁi.mɛ/ |
réprimais /ʁe.pʁi.mɛ/ |
réprimait /ʁe.pʁi.mɛ/ |
réprimions /ʁe.pʁi.mjɔ̃/ |
réprimiez /ʁe.pʁi.mje/ |
réprimaient /ʁe.pʁi.mɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | réprimai /ʁe.pʁi.me/ |
réprimas /ʁe.pʁi.ma/ |
réprima /ʁe.pʁi.ma/ |
réprimâmes /ʁe.pʁi.mam/ |
réprimâtes /ʁe.pʁi.mat/ |
réprimèrent /ʁe.pʁi.mɛʁ/ | |
| future | réprimerai /ʁe.pʁim.ʁe/ |
réprimeras /ʁe.pʁim.ʁa/ |
réprimera /ʁe.pʁim.ʁa/ |
réprimerons /ʁe.pʁim.ʁɔ̃/ |
réprimerez /ʁe.pʁim.ʁe/ |
réprimeront /ʁe.pʁim.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | réprimerais /ʁe.pʁim.ʁɛ/ |
réprimerais /ʁe.pʁim.ʁɛ/ |
réprimerait /ʁe.pʁim.ʁɛ/ |
réprimerions /ʁe.pʁi.mə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
réprimeriez /ʁe.pʁi.mə.ʁje/ |
réprimeraient /ʁe.pʁim.ʁɛ/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | réprime /ʁe.pʁim/ |
réprimes /ʁe.pʁim/ |
réprime /ʁe.pʁim/ |
réprimions /ʁe.pʁi.mjɔ̃/ |
réprimiez /ʁe.pʁi.mje/ |
répriment /ʁe.pʁim/ |
| imperfect2 | réprimasse /ʁe.pʁi.mas/ |
réprimasses /ʁe.pʁi.mas/ |
réprimât /ʁe.pʁi.ma/ |
réprimassions /ʁe.pʁi.ma.sjɔ̃/ |
réprimassiez /ʁe.pʁi.ma.sje/ |
réprimassent /ʁe.pʁi.mas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | réprime /ʁe.pʁim/ |
— | réprimons /ʁe.pʁi.mɔ̃/ |
réprimez /ʁe.pʁi.me/ |
— | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Related terms
Further reading
- “réprimer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.