incriminer
French
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin incrīmināre, from Latin crīmen (whence crime.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɛ̃.kʁi.mi.ne/
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Verb
incriminer
- (transitive) to incriminate, accuse
- Synonym: mettre en cause
Conjugation
Conjugation of incriminer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | incriminer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | incriminant /ɛ̃.kʁi.mi.nɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | incriminé /ɛ̃.kʁi.mi.ne/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | incrimine /ɛ̃.kʁi.min/ |
incrimines /ɛ̃.kʁi.min/ |
incrimine /ɛ̃.kʁi.min/ |
incriminons /ɛ̃.kʁi.mi.nɔ̃/ |
incriminez /ɛ̃.kʁi.mi.ne/ |
incriminent /ɛ̃.kʁi.min/ |
| imperfect | incriminais /ɛ̃.kʁi.mi.nɛ/ |
incriminais /ɛ̃.kʁi.mi.nɛ/ |
incriminait /ɛ̃.kʁi.mi.nɛ/ |
incriminions /ɛ̃.kʁi.mi.njɔ̃/ |
incriminiez /ɛ̃.kʁi.mi.nje/ |
incriminaient /ɛ̃.kʁi.mi.nɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | incriminai /ɛ̃.kʁi.mi.ne/ |
incriminas /ɛ̃.kʁi.mi.na/ |
incrimina /ɛ̃.kʁi.mi.na/ |
incriminâmes /ɛ̃.kʁi.mi.nam/ |
incriminâtes /ɛ̃.kʁi.mi.nat/ |
incriminèrent /ɛ̃.kʁi.mi.nɛʁ/ | |
| future | incriminerai /ɛ̃.kʁi.min.ʁe/ |
incrimineras /ɛ̃.kʁi.min.ʁa/ |
incriminera /ɛ̃.kʁi.min.ʁa/ |
incriminerons /ɛ̃.kʁi.min.ʁɔ̃/ |
incriminerez /ɛ̃.kʁi.min.ʁe/ |
incrimineront /ɛ̃.kʁi.min.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | incriminerais /ɛ̃.kʁi.min.ʁɛ/ |
incriminerais /ɛ̃.kʁi.min.ʁɛ/ |
incriminerait /ɛ̃.kʁi.min.ʁɛ/ |
incriminerions /ɛ̃.kʁi.mi.nə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
incrimineriez /ɛ̃.kʁi.mi.nə.ʁje/ |
incrimineraient /ɛ̃.kʁi.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 | incrimine /ɛ̃.kʁi.min/ |
incrimines /ɛ̃.kʁi.min/ |
incrimine /ɛ̃.kʁi.min/ |
incriminions /ɛ̃.kʁi.mi.njɔ̃/ |
incriminiez /ɛ̃.kʁi.mi.nje/ |
incriminent /ɛ̃.kʁi.min/ |
| imperfect2 | incriminasse /ɛ̃.kʁi.mi.nas/ |
incriminasses /ɛ̃.kʁi.mi.nas/ |
incriminât /ɛ̃.kʁi.mi.na/ |
incriminassions /ɛ̃.kʁi.mi.na.sjɔ̃/ |
incriminassiez /ɛ̃.kʁi.mi.na.sje/ |
incriminassent /ɛ̃.kʁi.mi.nas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | incrimine /ɛ̃.kʁi.min/ |
— | incriminons /ɛ̃.kʁi.mi.nɔ̃/ |
incriminez /ɛ̃.kʁi.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). | |||||||
Derived terms
Related terms
Further reading
- “incriminer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.