allumer

French

Etymology

From Old French allumer, alumer, from Vulgar Latin *allumināre (compare Occitan alumar, Italian alluminare, Portuguese alumiar, Spanish alumbrar), from Classical Latin illūminō, illūmināre (“illuminate, light up, brighten”), or from ad- + lūminō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.ly.me/

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• Rhymes: -e
• Homophones: allumai, allumé, allumée, allumées, allumés

Verb

allumer

1. to turn on (e.g. a light)
2. to light, to set alight
3. to arouse, to turn on

Conjugation

Conjugation of allumer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	allumer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	allumant /a.ly.mɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		allumé /a.ly.me/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	allume /a.lym/	allumes /a.lym/	allume /a.lym/	allumons /a.ly.mɔ̃/	allumez /a.ly.me/	allument /a.lym/
	imperfect	allumais /a.ly.mɛ/	allumais /a.ly.mɛ/	allumait /a.ly.mɛ/	allumions /a.ly.mjɔ̃/	allumiez /a.ly.mje/	allumaient /a.ly.mɛ/
	past historic2	allumai /a.ly.me/	allumas /a.ly.ma/	alluma /a.ly.ma/	allumâmes /a.ly.mam/	allumâtes /a.ly.mat/	allumèrent /a.ly.mɛʁ/
	future	allumerai /a.lym.ʁe/	allumeras /a.lym.ʁa/	allumera /a.lym.ʁa/	allumerons /a.lym.ʁɔ̃/	allumerez /a.lym.ʁe/	allumeront /a.lym.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	allumerais /a.lym.ʁɛ/	allumerais /a.lym.ʁɛ/	allumerait /a.lym.ʁɛ/	allumerions /a.ly.mə.ʁjɔ̃/	allumeriez /a.ly.mə.ʁje/	allumeraient /a.lym.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	allume /a.lym/	allumes /a.lym/	allume /a.lym/	allumions /a.ly.mjɔ̃/	allumiez /a.ly.mje/	allument /a.lym/
	imperfect2	allumasse /a.ly.mas/	allumasses /a.ly.mas/	allumât /a.ly.ma/	allumassions /a.ly.ma.sjɔ̃/	allumassiez /a.ly.ma.sje/	allumassent /a.ly.mas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	allume /a.lym/	—	allumons /a.ly.mɔ̃/	allumez /a.ly.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

• rallumer

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• rallume, rallumé