pimenter

French

Etymology

From piment +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pi.mɑ̃.te/

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• Homophones: pimentai, pimenté, pimentée, pimentées, pimentés, pimentez

Verb

pimenter

1. (cooking) to spice, to season with spices
2. (figuratively) to spice up, to make more extravagant or exotic

Conjugation

Conjugation of pimenter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	pimenter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	pimentant /pi.mɑ̃.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		pimenté /pi.mɑ̃.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	pimente /pi.mɑ̃t/	pimentes /pi.mɑ̃t/	pimente /pi.mɑ̃t/	pimentons /pi.mɑ̃.tɔ̃/	pimentez /pi.mɑ̃.te/	pimentent /pi.mɑ̃t/
	imperfect	pimentais /pi.mɑ̃.tɛ/	pimentais /pi.mɑ̃.tɛ/	pimentait /pi.mɑ̃.tɛ/	pimentions /pi.mɑ̃.tjɔ̃/	pimentiez /pi.mɑ̃.tje/	pimentaient /pi.mɑ̃.tɛ/
	past historic2	pimentai /pi.mɑ̃.te/	pimentas /pi.mɑ̃.ta/	pimenta /pi.mɑ̃.ta/	pimentâmes /pi.mɑ̃.tam/	pimentâtes /pi.mɑ̃.tat/	pimentèrent /pi.mɑ̃.tɛʁ/
	future	pimenterai /pi.mɑ̃.tʁe/	pimenteras /pi.mɑ̃.tʁa/	pimentera /pi.mɑ̃.tʁa/	pimenterons /pi.mɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/	pimenterez /pi.mɑ̃.tʁe/	pimenteront /pi.mɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	pimenterais /pi.mɑ̃.tʁɛ/	pimenterais /pi.mɑ̃.tʁɛ/	pimenterait /pi.mɑ̃.tʁɛ/	pimenterions /pi.mɑ̃.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	pimenteriez /pi.mɑ̃.tə.ʁje/	pimenteraient /pi.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	pimente /pi.mɑ̃t/	pimentes /pi.mɑ̃t/	pimente /pi.mɑ̃t/	pimentions /pi.mɑ̃.tjɔ̃/	pimentiez /pi.mɑ̃.tje/	pimentent /pi.mɑ̃t/
	imperfect2	pimentasse /pi.mɑ̃.tas/	pimentasses /pi.mɑ̃.tas/	pimentât /pi.mɑ̃.ta/	pimentassions /pi.mɑ̃.ta.sjɔ̃/	pimentassiez /pi.mɑ̃.ta.sje/	pimentassent /pi.mɑ̃.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	pimente /pi.mɑ̃t/	—	pimentons /pi.mɑ̃.tɔ̃/	pimentez /pi.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

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

Anagrams

• empirent, empreint