germer

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin germināre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʒɛʁ.me/

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Verb

germer

1. to germinate

Conjugation

Conjugation of germer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	germer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	germant /ʒɛʁ.mɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		germé /ʒɛʁ.me/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	germe /ʒɛʁm/	germes /ʒɛʁm/	germe /ʒɛʁm/	germons /ʒɛʁ.mɔ̃/	germez /ʒɛʁ.me/	germent /ʒɛʁm/
	imperfect	germais /ʒɛʁ.mɛ/	germais /ʒɛʁ.mɛ/	germait /ʒɛʁ.mɛ/	germions /ʒɛʁ.mjɔ̃/	germiez /ʒɛʁ.mje/	germaient /ʒɛʁ.mɛ/
	past historic2	germai /ʒɛʁ.me/	germas /ʒɛʁ.ma/	germa /ʒɛʁ.ma/	germâmes /ʒɛʁ.mam/	germâtes /ʒɛʁ.mat/	germèrent /ʒɛʁ.mɛʁ/
	future	germerai /ʒɛʁ.mə.ʁe/	germeras /ʒɛʁ.mə.ʁa/	germera /ʒɛʁ.mə.ʁa/	germerons /ʒɛʁ.mə.ʁɔ̃/	germerez /ʒɛʁ.mə.ʁe/	germeront /ʒɛʁ.mə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	germerais /ʒɛʁ.mə.ʁɛ/	germerais /ʒɛʁ.mə.ʁɛ/	germerait /ʒɛʁ.mə.ʁɛ/	germerions /ʒɛʁ.mə.ʁjɔ̃/	germeriez /ʒɛʁ.mə.ʁje/	germeraient /ʒɛʁ.mə.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	germe /ʒɛʁm/	germes /ʒɛʁm/	germe /ʒɛʁm/	germions /ʒɛʁ.mjɔ̃/	germiez /ʒɛʁ.mje/	germent /ʒɛʁm/
	imperfect2	germasse /ʒɛʁ.mas/	germasses /ʒɛʁ.mas/	germât /ʒɛʁ.ma/	germassions /ʒɛʁ.ma.sjɔ̃/	germassiez /ʒɛʁ.ma.sje/	germassent /ʒɛʁ.mas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	germe /ʒɛʁm/	—	germons /ʒɛʁ.mɔ̃/	germez /ʒɛʁ.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).

Further reading

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