gémir

See also: gemir

French

Etymology

From Old French gemir, borrowed from Latin gemere. Doublet of geindre, the properly native form.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʒe.miʁ/

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Verb

gémir

1. to moan; to groan

Conjugation

This is a regular verb of the second conjugation, like finir, choisir, and most other verbs with infinitives ending in -ir. One salient feature of this conjugation is the repeated appearance of the infix -iss-.

Conjugation of gémir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	gémir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	gémissant /ʒe.mi.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		gémi /ʒe.mi/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	gémis /ʒe.mi/	gémis /ʒe.mi/	gémit /ʒe.mi/	gémissons /ʒe.mi.sɔ̃/	gémissez /ʒe.mi.se/	gémissent /ʒe.mis/
	imperfect	gémissais /ʒe.mi.sɛ/	gémissais /ʒe.mi.sɛ/	gémissait /ʒe.mi.sɛ/	gémissions /ʒe.mi.sjɔ̃/	gémissiez /ʒe.mi.sje/	gémissaient /ʒe.mi.sɛ/
	past historic2	gémis /ʒe.mi/	gémis /ʒe.mi/	gémit /ʒe.mi/	gémîmes /ʒe.mim/	gémîtes /ʒe.mit/	gémirent /ʒe.miʁ/
	future	gémirai /ʒe.mi.ʁe/	gémiras /ʒe.mi.ʁa/	gémira /ʒe.mi.ʁa/	gémirons /ʒe.mi.ʁɔ̃/	gémirez /ʒe.mi.ʁe/	gémiront /ʒe.mi.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	gémirais /ʒe.mi.ʁɛ/	gémirais /ʒe.mi.ʁɛ/	gémirait /ʒe.mi.ʁɛ/	gémirions /ʒe.mi.ʁjɔ̃/	gémiriez /ʒe.mi.ʁje/	gémiraient /ʒe.mi.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	gémisse /ʒe.mis/	gémisses /ʒe.mis/	gémisse /ʒe.mis/	gémissions /ʒe.mi.sjɔ̃/	gémissiez /ʒe.mi.sje/	gémissent /ʒe.mis/
	imperfect2	gémisse /ʒe.mis/	gémisses /ʒe.mis/	gémît /ʒe.mi/	gémissions /ʒe.mi.sjɔ̃/	gémissiez /ʒe.mi.sje/	gémissent /ʒe.mis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	gémis /ʒe.mi/	—	gémissons /ʒe.mi.sɔ̃/	gémissez /ʒe.mi.se/	—
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

• gémissement

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• migre, migré