écimer

French

Etymology

From é- +‎ cime +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /e.si.me/

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Verb

écimer

1. (horticulture) to pollard, to prune a tree's top to improve the growth of its lower parts

Conjugation

Conjugation of écimer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	écimer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	écimant /e.si.mɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		écimé /e.si.me/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	écime /e.sim/	écimes /e.sim/	écime /e.sim/	écimons /e.si.mɔ̃/	écimez /e.si.me/	éciment /e.sim/
	imperfect	écimais /e.si.mɛ/	écimais /e.si.mɛ/	écimait /e.si.mɛ/	écimions /e.si.mjɔ̃/	écimiez /e.si.mje/	écimaient /e.si.mɛ/
	past historic2	écimai /e.si.me/	écimas /e.si.ma/	écima /e.si.ma/	écimâmes /e.si.mam/	écimâtes /e.si.mat/	écimèrent /e.si.mɛʁ/
	future	écimerai /e.sim.ʁe/	écimeras /e.sim.ʁa/	écimera /e.sim.ʁa/	écimerons /e.sim.ʁɔ̃/	écimerez /e.sim.ʁe/	écimeront /e.sim.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	écimerais /e.sim.ʁɛ/	écimerais /e.sim.ʁɛ/	écimerait /e.sim.ʁɛ/	écimerions /e.si.mə.ʁjɔ̃/	écimeriez /e.si.mə.ʁje/	écimeraient /e.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	écime /e.sim/	écimes /e.sim/	écime /e.sim/	écimions /e.si.mjɔ̃/	écimiez /e.si.mje/	éciment /e.sim/
	imperfect2	écimasse /e.si.mas/	écimasses /e.si.mas/	écimât /e.si.ma/	écimassions /e.si.ma.sjɔ̃/	écimassiez /e.si.ma.sje/	écimassent /e.si.mas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	écime /e.sim/	—	écimons /e.si.mɔ̃/	écimez /e.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: 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).

Derived terms

• écimage

Related terms

• cime

Further reading

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