comprimer
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin comprimere.
Pronunciation
Verb
comprimer
- to compress
Conjugation
Conjugation of comprimer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | comprimer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | comprimant /kɔ̃.pʁi.mɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | comprimé /kɔ̃.pʁi.me/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | comprime /kɔ̃.pʁim/ |
comprimes /kɔ̃.pʁim/ |
comprime /kɔ̃.pʁim/ |
comprimons /kɔ̃.pʁi.mɔ̃/ |
comprimez /kɔ̃.pʁi.me/ |
compriment /kɔ̃.pʁim/ |
| imperfect | comprimais /kɔ̃.pʁi.mɛ/ |
comprimais /kɔ̃.pʁi.mɛ/ |
comprimait /kɔ̃.pʁi.mɛ/ |
comprimions /kɔ̃.pʁi.mjɔ̃/ |
comprimiez /kɔ̃.pʁi.mje/ |
comprimaient /kɔ̃.pʁi.mɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | comprimai /kɔ̃.pʁi.me/ |
comprimas /kɔ̃.pʁi.ma/ |
comprima /kɔ̃.pʁi.ma/ |
comprimâmes /kɔ̃.pʁi.mam/ |
comprimâtes /kɔ̃.pʁi.mat/ |
comprimèrent /kɔ̃.pʁi.mɛʁ/ | |
| future | comprimerai /kɔ̃.pʁim.ʁe/ |
comprimeras /kɔ̃.pʁim.ʁa/ |
comprimera /kɔ̃.pʁim.ʁa/ |
comprimerons /kɔ̃.pʁim.ʁɔ̃/ |
comprimerez /kɔ̃.pʁim.ʁe/ |
comprimeront /kɔ̃.pʁim.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | comprimerais /kɔ̃.pʁim.ʁɛ/ |
comprimerais /kɔ̃.pʁim.ʁɛ/ |
comprimerait /kɔ̃.pʁim.ʁɛ/ |
comprimerions /kɔ̃.pʁi.mə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
comprimeriez /kɔ̃.pʁi.mə.ʁje/ |
comprimeraient /kɔ̃.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 | comprime /kɔ̃.pʁim/ |
comprimes /kɔ̃.pʁim/ |
comprime /kɔ̃.pʁim/ |
comprimions /kɔ̃.pʁi.mjɔ̃/ |
comprimiez /kɔ̃.pʁi.mje/ |
compriment /kɔ̃.pʁim/ |
| imperfect2 | comprimasse /kɔ̃.pʁi.mas/ |
comprimasses /kɔ̃.pʁi.mas/ |
comprimât /kɔ̃.pʁi.ma/ |
comprimassions /kɔ̃.pʁi.ma.sjɔ̃/ |
comprimassiez /kɔ̃.pʁi.ma.sje/ |
comprimassent /kɔ̃.pʁi.mas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | comprime /kɔ̃.pʁim/ |
— | comprimons /kɔ̃.pʁi.mɔ̃/ |
comprimez /kɔ̃.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). | |||||||
Derived terms
Further reading
- “comprimer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.