subsumer

English

Etymology

subsume +‎ -er

Noun

subsumer (plural subsumers)

1. One who, or that which, subsumes.

Anagrams

• susumber

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin subsumo, from sub (“under”) and sumo (“to take”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /syp.sy.me/

Verb

subsumer

1. (formal, logic, philosophy) to subsume (to place under another as belonging to it))

Conjugation

Conjugation of subsumer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	subsumer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	subsumant /syp.sy.mɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		subsumé /syp.sy.me/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	subsume /syp.sym/	subsumes /syp.sym/	subsume /syp.sym/	subsumons /syp.sy.mɔ̃/	subsumez /syp.sy.me/	subsument /syp.sym/
	imperfect	subsumais /syp.sy.mɛ/	subsumais /syp.sy.mɛ/	subsumait /syp.sy.mɛ/	subsumions /syp.sy.mjɔ̃/	subsumiez /syp.sy.mje/	subsumaient /syp.sy.mɛ/
	past historic2	subsumai /syp.sy.me/	subsumas /syp.sy.ma/	subsuma /syp.sy.ma/	subsumâmes /syp.sy.mam/	subsumâtes /syp.sy.mat/	subsumèrent /syp.sy.mɛʁ/
	future	subsumerai /syp.sym.ʁe/	subsumeras /syp.sym.ʁa/	subsumera /syp.sym.ʁa/	subsumerons /syp.sym.ʁɔ̃/	subsumerez /syp.sym.ʁe/	subsumeront /syp.sym.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	subsumerais /syp.sym.ʁɛ/	subsumerais /syp.sym.ʁɛ/	subsumerait /syp.sym.ʁɛ/	subsumerions /syp.sy.mə.ʁjɔ̃/	subsumeriez /syp.sy.mə.ʁje/	subsumeraient /syp.sym.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	subsume /syp.sym/	subsumes /syp.sym/	subsume /syp.sym/	subsumions /syp.sy.mjɔ̃/	subsumiez /syp.sy.mje/	subsument /syp.sym/
	imperfect2	subsumasse /syp.sy.mas/	subsumasses /syp.sy.mas/	subsumât /syp.sy.ma/	subsumassions /syp.sy.ma.sjɔ̃/	subsumassiez /syp.sy.ma.sje/	subsumassent /syp.sy.mas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	subsume /syp.sym/	—	subsumons /syp.sy.mɔ̃/	subsumez /syp.sy.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).

Derived terms

• subsomption

Related terms

• assumer
• consumer

Further reading

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