pimenter
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
Verb
pimenter
- (cooking) to spice, to season with spices
- (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 | – | – | – | ||||
| 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:
(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.