exterminer

French

Etymology

From Latin extermināre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛk.stɛʁ.mi.ne/

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Verb

exterminer

1. to exterminate

Conjugation

Conjugation of exterminer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	exterminer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	exterminant /ɛk.stɛʁ.mi.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		exterminé /ɛk.stɛʁ.mi.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	extermine /ɛk.stɛʁ.min/	extermines /ɛk.stɛʁ.min/	extermine /ɛk.stɛʁ.min/	exterminons /ɛk.stɛʁ.mi.nɔ̃/	exterminez /ɛk.stɛʁ.mi.ne/	exterminent /ɛk.stɛʁ.min/
	imperfect	exterminais /ɛk.stɛʁ.mi.nɛ/	exterminais /ɛk.stɛʁ.mi.nɛ/	exterminait /ɛk.stɛʁ.mi.nɛ/	exterminions /ɛk.stɛʁ.mi.njɔ̃/	exterminiez /ɛk.stɛʁ.mi.nje/	exterminaient /ɛk.stɛʁ.mi.nɛ/
	past historic2	exterminai /ɛk.stɛʁ.mi.ne/	exterminas /ɛk.stɛʁ.mi.na/	extermina /ɛk.stɛʁ.mi.na/	exterminâmes /ɛk.stɛʁ.mi.nam/	exterminâtes /ɛk.stɛʁ.mi.nat/	exterminèrent /ɛk.stɛʁ.mi.nɛʁ/
	future	exterminerai /ɛk.stɛʁ.min.ʁe/	extermineras /ɛk.stɛʁ.min.ʁa/	exterminera /ɛk.stɛʁ.min.ʁa/	exterminerons /ɛk.stɛʁ.min.ʁɔ̃/	exterminerez /ɛk.stɛʁ.min.ʁe/	extermineront /ɛk.stɛʁ.min.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	exterminerais /ɛk.stɛʁ.min.ʁɛ/	exterminerais /ɛk.stɛʁ.min.ʁɛ/	exterminerait /ɛk.stɛʁ.min.ʁɛ/	exterminerions /ɛk.stɛʁ.mi.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	extermineriez /ɛk.stɛʁ.mi.nə.ʁje/	extermineraient /ɛk.stɛʁ.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	extermine /ɛk.stɛʁ.min/	extermines /ɛk.stɛʁ.min/	extermine /ɛk.stɛʁ.min/	exterminions /ɛk.stɛʁ.mi.njɔ̃/	exterminiez /ɛk.stɛʁ.mi.nje/	exterminent /ɛk.stɛʁ.min/
	imperfect2	exterminasse /ɛk.stɛʁ.mi.nas/	exterminasses /ɛk.stɛʁ.mi.nas/	exterminât /ɛk.stɛʁ.mi.na/	exterminassions /ɛk.stɛʁ.mi.na.sjɔ̃/	exterminassiez /ɛk.stɛʁ.mi.na.sje/	exterminassent /ɛk.stɛʁ.mi.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	extermine /ɛk.stɛʁ.min/	—	exterminons /ɛk.stɛʁ.mi.nɔ̃/	exterminez /ɛk.stɛʁ.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: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Related terms

• exterminateur
• extermination

Further reading

• “exterminer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• remixèrent

Latin

Verb

exterminer

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of exterminō