psalmodier

French

Etymology

psalmodie +‎ -er

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /psal.mɔ.dje/

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Verb

psalmodier

1. (intransitive) to chant, intone (especially a psalm)
2. (intransitive) to drone

Conjugation

Conjugation of psalmodier (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	psalmodier
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	psalmodiant /psal.mɔ.djɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		psalmodié /psal.mɔ.dje/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	psalmodie /psal.mɔ.di/	psalmodies /psal.mɔ.di/	psalmodie /psal.mɔ.di/	psalmodions /psal.mɔ.djɔ̃/	psalmodiez /psal.mɔ.dje/	psalmodient /psal.mɔ.di/
	imperfect	psalmodiais /psal.mɔ.djɛ/	psalmodiais /psal.mɔ.djɛ/	psalmodiait /psal.mɔ.djɛ/	psalmodiions /psal.mɔ.di.jɔ̃/	psalmodiiez /psal.mɔ.di.je/	psalmodiaient /psal.mɔ.djɛ/
	past historic2	psalmodiai /psal.mɔ.dje/	psalmodias /psal.mɔ.dja/	psalmodia /psal.mɔ.dja/	psalmodiâmes /psal.mɔ.djam/	psalmodiâtes /psal.mɔ.djat/	psalmodièrent /psal.mɔ.djɛʁ/
	future	psalmodierai /psal.mɔ.di.ʁe/	psalmodieras /psal.mɔ.di.ʁa/	psalmodiera /psal.mɔ.di.ʁa/	psalmodierons /psal.mɔ.di.ʁɔ̃/	psalmodierez /psal.mɔ.di.ʁe/	psalmodieront /psal.mɔ.di.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	psalmodierais /psal.mɔ.di.ʁɛ/	psalmodierais /psal.mɔ.di.ʁɛ/	psalmodierait /psal.mɔ.di.ʁɛ/	psalmodierions /psal.mɔ.di.ʁjɔ̃/	psalmodieriez /psal.mɔ.di.ʁje/	psalmodieraient /psal.mɔ.di.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	psalmodie /psal.mɔ.di/	psalmodies /psal.mɔ.di/	psalmodie /psal.mɔ.di/	psalmodiions /psal.mɔ.di.jɔ̃/	psalmodiiez /psal.mɔ.di.je/	psalmodient /psal.mɔ.di/
	imperfect2	psalmodiasse /psal.mɔ.djas/	psalmodiasses /psal.mɔ.djas/	psalmodiât /psal.mɔ.dja/	psalmodiassions /psal.mɔ.dja.sjɔ̃/	psalmodiassiez /psal.mɔ.dja.sje/	psalmodiassent /psal.mɔ.djas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	psalmodie /psal.mɔ.di/	—	psalmodions /psal.mɔ.djɔ̃/	psalmodiez /psal.mɔ.dje/	—
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

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