vomir

French

Etymology

From Old French vomir, from Vulgar Latin *vomīre, from Latin vomere, present active infinitive of vomō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɔ.miʁ/

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Verb

vomir

1. to vomit

Conjugation

This is a regular verb of the second conjugation, like finir, choisir, and most other verbs with infinitives ending in -ir. One salient feature of this conjugation is the repeated appearance of the infix -iss-.

Conjugation of vomir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	vomir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	vomissant /vɔ.mi.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		vomi /vɔ.mi/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	vomis /vɔ.mi/	vomis /vɔ.mi/	vomit /vɔ.mi/	vomissons /vɔ.mi.sɔ̃/	vomissez /vɔ.mi.se/	vomissent /vɔ.mis/
	imperfect	vomissais /vɔ.mi.sɛ/	vomissais /vɔ.mi.sɛ/	vomissait /vɔ.mi.sɛ/	vomissions /vɔ.mi.sjɔ̃/	vomissiez /vɔ.mi.sje/	vomissaient /vɔ.mi.sɛ/
	past historic2	vomis /vɔ.mi/	vomis /vɔ.mi/	vomit /vɔ.mi/	vomîmes /vɔ.mim/	vomîtes /vɔ.mit/	vomirent /vɔ.miʁ/
	future	vomirai /vɔ.mi.ʁe/	vomiras /vɔ.mi.ʁa/	vomira /vɔ.mi.ʁa/	vomirons /vɔ.mi.ʁɔ̃/	vomirez /vɔ.mi.ʁe/	vomiront /vɔ.mi.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	vomirais /vɔ.mi.ʁɛ/	vomirais /vɔ.mi.ʁɛ/	vomirait /vɔ.mi.ʁɛ/	vomirions /vɔ.mi.ʁjɔ̃/	vomiriez /vɔ.mi.ʁje/	vomiraient /vɔ.mi.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	vomisse /vɔ.mis/	vomisses /vɔ.mis/	vomisse /vɔ.mis/	vomissions /vɔ.mi.sjɔ̃/	vomissiez /vɔ.mi.sje/	vomissent /vɔ.mis/
	imperfect2	vomisse /vɔ.mis/	vomisses /vɔ.mis/	vomît /vɔ.mi/	vomissions /vɔ.mi.sjɔ̃/	vomissiez /vɔ.mi.sje/	vomissent /vɔ.mis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	vomis /vɔ.mi/	—	vomissons /vɔ.mi.sɔ̃/	vomissez /vɔ.mi.se/	—
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).

Synonyms

• gerber
• dégueuler
• dégobiller

Further reading

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

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Old French

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *vomīre, from Latin vomere, present active infinitive of vomō.

Verb

vomir

1. to vomit

Descendants

• French: vomir
• Norman: vômi (Jersey)