brimer
See also: Brimer
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From dialectal brime, probably a blend of brume + frimas.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]brimer
- (transitive) to bully; to mistreat
Conjugation
[edit]Conjugation of brimer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | brimer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | brimant /bʁi.mɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | brimé /bʁi.me/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | brime /bʁim/ |
brimes /bʁim/ |
brime /bʁim/ |
brimons /bʁi.mɔ̃/ |
brimez /bʁi.me/ |
briment /bʁim/ |
| imperfect | brimais /bʁi.mɛ/ |
brimais /bʁi.mɛ/ |
brimait /bʁi.mɛ/ |
brimions /bʁi.mjɔ̃/ |
brimiez /bʁi.mje/ |
brimaient /bʁi.mɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | brimai /bʁi.me/ |
brimas /bʁi.ma/ |
brima /bʁi.ma/ |
brimâmes /bʁi.mam/ |
brimâtes /bʁi.mat/ |
brimèrent /bʁi.mɛʁ/ | |
| future | brimerai /bʁim.ʁe/ |
brimeras /bʁim.ʁa/ |
brimera /bʁim.ʁa/ |
brimerons /bʁim.ʁɔ̃/ |
brimerez /bʁim.ʁe/ |
brimeront /bʁim.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | brimerais /bʁim.ʁɛ/ |
brimerais /bʁim.ʁɛ/ |
brimerait /bʁim.ʁɛ/ |
brimerions /bʁi.mə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
brimeriez /bʁi.mə.ʁje/ |
brimeraient /bʁim.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 | brime /bʁim/ |
brimes /bʁim/ |
brime /bʁim/ |
brimions /bʁi.mjɔ̃/ |
brimiez /bʁi.mje/ |
briment /bʁim/ |
| imperfect2 | brimasse /bʁi.mas/ |
brimasses /bʁi.mas/ |
brimât /bʁi.ma/ |
brimassions /bʁi.ma.sjɔ̃/ |
brimassiez /bʁi.ma.sje/ |
brimassent /bʁi.mas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | brime /bʁim/ |
— | brimons /bʁi.mɔ̃/ |
brimez /bʁi.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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “brimer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.