ensimer
French
Pronunciation
Verb
ensimer
- to lightly grease a fabric
- D. de Prat, Nouveau manuel complet de filature; 1ère partie: Fibres animales & minérales, Encyclopédie Roret, 1914
- Les appareils à ensimer sont tous actuellement automatiques.
- D. de Prat, Nouveau manuel complet de filature; 1ère partie: Fibres animales & minérales, Encyclopédie Roret, 1914
Conjugation
Conjugation of ensimer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | ensimer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | ensimant /ɑ̃.si.mɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | ensimé /ɑ̃.si.me/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | ensime /ɑ̃.sim/ |
ensimes /ɑ̃.sim/ |
ensime /ɑ̃.sim/ |
ensimons /ɑ̃.si.mɔ̃/ |
ensimez /ɑ̃.si.me/ |
ensiment /ɑ̃.sim/ |
| imperfect | ensimais /ɑ̃.si.mɛ/ |
ensimais /ɑ̃.si.mɛ/ |
ensimait /ɑ̃.si.mɛ/ |
ensimions /ɑ̃.si.mjɔ̃/ |
ensimiez /ɑ̃.si.mje/ |
ensimaient /ɑ̃.si.mɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | ensimai /ɑ̃.si.me/ |
ensimas /ɑ̃.si.ma/ |
ensima /ɑ̃.si.ma/ |
ensimâmes /ɑ̃.si.mam/ |
ensimâtes /ɑ̃.si.mat/ |
ensimèrent /ɑ̃.si.mɛʁ/ | |
| future | ensimerai /ɑ̃.sim.ʁe/ |
ensimeras /ɑ̃.sim.ʁa/ |
ensimera /ɑ̃.sim.ʁa/ |
ensimerons /ɑ̃.sim.ʁɔ̃/ |
ensimerez /ɑ̃.sim.ʁe/ |
ensimeront /ɑ̃.sim.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | ensimerais /ɑ̃.sim.ʁɛ/ |
ensimerais /ɑ̃.sim.ʁɛ/ |
ensimerait /ɑ̃.sim.ʁɛ/ |
ensimerions /ɑ̃.si.mə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
ensimeriez /ɑ̃.si.mə.ʁje/ |
ensimeraient /ɑ̃.sim.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 | ensime /ɑ̃.sim/ |
ensimes /ɑ̃.sim/ |
ensime /ɑ̃.sim/ |
ensimions /ɑ̃.si.mjɔ̃/ |
ensimiez /ɑ̃.si.mje/ |
ensiment /ɑ̃.sim/ |
| imperfect2 | ensimasse /ɑ̃.si.mas/ |
ensimasses /ɑ̃.si.mas/ |
ensimât /ɑ̃.si.ma/ |
ensimassions /ɑ̃.si.ma.sjɔ̃/ |
ensimassiez /ɑ̃.si.ma.sje/ |
ensimassent /ɑ̃.si.mas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | ensime /ɑ̃.sim/ |
— | ensimons /ɑ̃.si.mɔ̃/ |
ensimez /ɑ̃.si.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). | |||||||
Further reading
- “ensimer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.