culminer
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Medieval Latin culmināre, from Latin culmen.
Pronunciation
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Verb
culminer
- (intransitive) to culminate (to come to an end)
- Le film culmine sur son meurtre.
- The film culminates in his murder.
- to culminate; reach the highest point
Conjugation
Conjugation of culminer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | culminer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | culminant /kyl.mi.nɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | culminé /kyl.mi.ne/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | culmine /kyl.min/ |
culmines /kyl.min/ |
culmine /kyl.min/ |
culminons /kyl.mi.nɔ̃/ |
culminez /kyl.mi.ne/ |
culminent /kyl.min/ |
| imperfect | culminais /kyl.mi.nɛ/ |
culminais /kyl.mi.nɛ/ |
culminait /kyl.mi.nɛ/ |
culminions /kyl.mi.njɔ̃/ |
culminiez /kyl.mi.nje/ |
culminaient /kyl.mi.nɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | culminai /kyl.mi.ne/ |
culminas /kyl.mi.na/ |
culmina /kyl.mi.na/ |
culminâmes /kyl.mi.nam/ |
culminâtes /kyl.mi.nat/ |
culminèrent /kyl.mi.nɛʁ/ | |
| future | culminerai /kyl.min.ʁe/ |
culmineras /kyl.min.ʁa/ |
culminera /kyl.min.ʁa/ |
culminerons /kyl.min.ʁɔ̃/ |
culminerez /kyl.min.ʁe/ |
culmineront /kyl.min.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | culminerais /kyl.min.ʁɛ/ |
culminerais /kyl.min.ʁɛ/ |
culminerait /kyl.min.ʁɛ/ |
culminerions /kyl.mi.nə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
culmineriez /kyl.mi.nə.ʁje/ |
culmineraient /kyl.min.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 | culmine /kyl.min/ |
culmines /kyl.min/ |
culmine /kyl.min/ |
culminions /kyl.mi.njɔ̃/ |
culminiez /kyl.mi.nje/ |
culminent /kyl.min/ |
| imperfect2 | culminasse /kyl.mi.nas/ |
culminasses /kyl.mi.nas/ |
culminât /kyl.mi.na/ |
culminassions /kyl.mi.na.sjɔ̃/ |
culminassiez /kyl.mi.na.sje/ |
culminassent /kyl.mi.nas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | culmine /kyl.min/ |
— | culminons /kyl.mi.nɔ̃/ |
culminez /kyl.mi.ne/ |
— | |
| 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
Descendants
- → German: kulminieren
Further reading
- “culminer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.