consommer

French

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin consummare

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.sɔ.me/

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Verb

consommer

1. to consume; to ingest

   À consommer avec modération.

   Consume in moderation.

Conjugation

Conjugation of consommer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	consommer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	consommant /kɔ̃.sɔ.mɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		consommé /kɔ̃.sɔ.me/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	consomme /kɔ̃.sɔm/	consommes /kɔ̃.sɔm/	consomme /kɔ̃.sɔm/	consommons /kɔ̃.sɔ.mɔ̃/	consommez /kɔ̃.sɔ.me/	consomment /kɔ̃.sɔm/
	imperfect	consommais /kɔ̃.sɔ.mɛ/	consommais /kɔ̃.sɔ.mɛ/	consommait /kɔ̃.sɔ.mɛ/	consommions /kɔ̃.sɔ.mjɔ̃/	consommiez /kɔ̃.sɔ.mje/	consommaient /kɔ̃.sɔ.mɛ/
	past historic2	consommai /kɔ̃.sɔ.me/	consommas /kɔ̃.sɔ.ma/	consomma /kɔ̃.sɔ.ma/	consommâmes /kɔ̃.sɔ.mam/	consommâtes /kɔ̃.sɔ.mat/	consommèrent /kɔ̃.sɔ.mɛʁ/
	future	consommerai /kɔ̃.sɔm.ʁe/	consommeras /kɔ̃.sɔm.ʁa/	consommera /kɔ̃.sɔm.ʁa/	consommerons /kɔ̃.sɔm.ʁɔ̃/	consommerez /kɔ̃.sɔm.ʁe/	consommeront /kɔ̃.sɔm.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	consommerais /kɔ̃.sɔm.ʁɛ/	consommerais /kɔ̃.sɔm.ʁɛ/	consommerait /kɔ̃.sɔm.ʁɛ/	consommerions /kɔ̃.sɔ.mə.ʁjɔ̃/	consommeriez /kɔ̃.sɔ.mə.ʁje/	consommeraient /kɔ̃.sɔm.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	consomme /kɔ̃.sɔm/	consommes /kɔ̃.sɔm/	consomme /kɔ̃.sɔm/	consommions /kɔ̃.sɔ.mjɔ̃/	consommiez /kɔ̃.sɔ.mje/	consomment /kɔ̃.sɔm/
	imperfect2	consommasse /kɔ̃.sɔ.mas/	consommasses /kɔ̃.sɔ.mas/	consommât /kɔ̃.sɔ.ma/	consommassions /kɔ̃.sɔ.ma.sjɔ̃/	consommassiez /kɔ̃.sɔ.ma.sje/	consommassent /kɔ̃.sɔ.mas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	consomme /kɔ̃.sɔm/	—	consommons /kɔ̃.sɔ.mɔ̃/	consommez /kɔ̃.sɔ.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

• consommateur
• consommation

Further reading

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

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