agrémenter

French

Etymology

From agrément +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.ɡʁe.mɑ̃.te/

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Verb

agrémenter

1. (transitive) to brighten up
2. (transitive) to liven up
3. (transitive) to supplement, adorn

Conjugation

Conjugation of agrémenter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	agrémenter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	agrémentant /a.ɡʁe.mɑ̃.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		agrémenté /a.ɡʁe.mɑ̃.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	agrémente /a.ɡʁe.mɑ̃t/	agrémentes /a.ɡʁe.mɑ̃t/	agrémente /a.ɡʁe.mɑ̃t/	agrémentons /a.ɡʁe.mɑ̃.tɔ̃/	agrémentez /a.ɡʁe.mɑ̃.te/	agrémentent /a.ɡʁe.mɑ̃t/
	imperfect	agrémentais /a.ɡʁe.mɑ̃.tɛ/	agrémentais /a.ɡʁe.mɑ̃.tɛ/	agrémentait /a.ɡʁe.mɑ̃.tɛ/	agrémentions /a.ɡʁe.mɑ̃.tjɔ̃/	agrémentiez /a.ɡʁe.mɑ̃.tje/	agrémentaient /a.ɡʁe.mɑ̃.tɛ/
	past historic2	agrémentai /a.ɡʁe.mɑ̃.te/	agrémentas /a.ɡʁe.mɑ̃.ta/	agrémenta /a.ɡʁe.mɑ̃.ta/	agrémentâmes /a.ɡʁe.mɑ̃.tam/	agrémentâtes /a.ɡʁe.mɑ̃.tat/	agrémentèrent /a.ɡʁe.mɑ̃.tɛʁ/
	future	agrémenterai /a.ɡʁe.mɑ̃.tʁe/	agrémenteras /a.ɡʁe.mɑ̃.tʁa/	agrémentera /a.ɡʁe.mɑ̃.tʁa/	agrémenterons /a.ɡʁe.mɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/	agrémenterez /a.ɡʁe.mɑ̃.tʁe/	agrémenteront /a.ɡʁe.mɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	agrémenterais /a.ɡʁe.mɑ̃.tʁɛ/	agrémenterais /a.ɡʁe.mɑ̃.tʁɛ/	agrémenterait /a.ɡʁe.mɑ̃.tʁɛ/	agrémenterions /a.ɡʁe.mɑ̃.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	agrémenteriez /a.ɡʁe.mɑ̃.tə.ʁje/	agrémenteraient /a.ɡʁe.mɑ̃.tʁɛ/
(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	agrémente /a.ɡʁe.mɑ̃t/	agrémentes /a.ɡʁe.mɑ̃t/	agrémente /a.ɡʁe.mɑ̃t/	agrémentions /a.ɡʁe.mɑ̃.tjɔ̃/	agrémentiez /a.ɡʁe.mɑ̃.tje/	agrémentent /a.ɡʁe.mɑ̃t/
	imperfect2	agrémentasse /a.ɡʁe.mɑ̃.tas/	agrémentasses /a.ɡʁe.mɑ̃.tas/	agrémentât /a.ɡʁe.mɑ̃.ta/	agrémentassions /a.ɡʁe.mɑ̃.ta.sjɔ̃/	agrémentassiez /a.ɡʁe.mɑ̃.ta.sje/	agrémentassent /a.ɡʁe.mɑ̃.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	agrémente /a.ɡʁe.mɑ̃t/	—	agrémentons /a.ɡʁe.mɑ̃.tɔ̃/	agrémentez /a.ɡʁe.mɑ̃.te/	—
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).

Further reading

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