éliminer

See also: eliminer

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ēlīmināre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /e.li.mi.ne/

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Verb

éliminer

1. to eliminate; to phase out

Conjugation

Conjugation of éliminer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	éliminer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	éliminant /e.li.mi.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		éliminé /e.li.mi.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	élimine /e.li.min/	élimines /e.li.min/	élimine /e.li.min/	éliminons /e.li.mi.nɔ̃/	éliminez /e.li.mi.ne/	éliminent /e.li.min/
	imperfect	éliminais /e.li.mi.nɛ/	éliminais /e.li.mi.nɛ/	éliminait /e.li.mi.nɛ/	éliminions /e.li.mi.njɔ̃/	éliminiez /e.li.mi.nje/	éliminaient /e.li.mi.nɛ/
	past historic2	éliminai /e.li.mi.ne/	éliminas /e.li.mi.na/	élimina /e.li.mi.na/	éliminâmes /e.li.mi.nam/	éliminâtes /e.li.mi.nat/	éliminèrent /e.li.mi.nɛʁ/
	future	éliminerai /e.li.min.ʁe/	élimineras /e.li.min.ʁa/	éliminera /e.li.min.ʁa/	éliminerons /e.li.min.ʁɔ̃/	éliminerez /e.li.min.ʁe/	élimineront /e.li.min.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	éliminerais /e.li.min.ʁɛ/	éliminerais /e.li.min.ʁɛ/	éliminerait /e.li.min.ʁɛ/	éliminerions /e.li.mi.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	élimineriez /e.li.mi.nə.ʁje/	élimineraient /e.li.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	élimine /e.li.min/	élimines /e.li.min/	élimine /e.li.min/	éliminions /e.li.mi.njɔ̃/	éliminiez /e.li.mi.nje/	éliminent /e.li.min/
	imperfect2	éliminasse /e.li.mi.nas/	éliminasses /e.li.mi.nas/	éliminât /e.li.mi.na/	éliminassions /e.li.mi.na.sjɔ̃/	éliminassiez /e.li.mi.na.sje/	éliminassent /e.li.mi.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	élimine /e.li.min/	—	éliminons /e.li.mi.nɔ̃/	éliminez /e.li.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

• élimination

Further reading

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