sédimenter

See also: sedimenter

French

Etymology

sédiment +‎ -er

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /se.di.mɑ̃.te/

Verb

sédimenter

1. (transitive, intransitive) to sediment

Conjugation

Conjugation of sédimenter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	sédimenter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	sédimentant /se.di.mɑ̃.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		sédimenté /se.di.mɑ̃.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	sédimente /se.di.mɑ̃t/	sédimentes /se.di.mɑ̃t/	sédimente /se.di.mɑ̃t/	sédimentons /se.di.mɑ̃.tɔ̃/	sédimentez /se.di.mɑ̃.te/	sédimentent /se.di.mɑ̃t/
	imperfect	sédimentais /se.di.mɑ̃.tɛ/	sédimentais /se.di.mɑ̃.tɛ/	sédimentait /se.di.mɑ̃.tɛ/	sédimentions /se.di.mɑ̃.tjɔ̃/	sédimentiez /se.di.mɑ̃.tje/	sédimentaient /se.di.mɑ̃.tɛ/
	past historic2	sédimentai /se.di.mɑ̃.te/	sédimentas /se.di.mɑ̃.ta/	sédimenta /se.di.mɑ̃.ta/	sédimentâmes /se.di.mɑ̃.tam/	sédimentâtes /se.di.mɑ̃.tat/	sédimentèrent /se.di.mɑ̃.tɛʁ/
	future	sédimenterai /se.di.mɑ̃.tʁe/	sédimenteras /se.di.mɑ̃.tʁa/	sédimentera /se.di.mɑ̃.tʁa/	sédimenterons /se.di.mɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/	sédimenterez /se.di.mɑ̃.tʁe/	sédimenteront /se.di.mɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	sédimenterais /se.di.mɑ̃.tʁɛ/	sédimenterais /se.di.mɑ̃.tʁɛ/	sédimenterait /se.di.mɑ̃.tʁɛ/	sédimenterions /se.di.mɑ̃.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	sédimenteriez /se.di.mɑ̃.tə.ʁje/	sédimenteraient /se.di.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	sédimente /se.di.mɑ̃t/	sédimentes /se.di.mɑ̃t/	sédimente /se.di.mɑ̃t/	sédimentions /se.di.mɑ̃.tjɔ̃/	sédimentiez /se.di.mɑ̃.tje/	sédimentent /se.di.mɑ̃t/
	imperfect2	sédimentasse /se.di.mɑ̃.tas/	sédimentasses /se.di.mɑ̃.tas/	sédimentât /se.di.mɑ̃.ta/	sédimentassions /se.di.mɑ̃.ta.sjɔ̃/	sédimentassiez /se.di.mɑ̃.ta.sje/	sédimentassent /se.di.mɑ̃.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	sédimente /se.di.mɑ̃t/	—	sédimentons /se.di.mɑ̃.tɔ̃/	sédimentez /se.di.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

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