cémenter

See also: cementer

French

Etymology

From cément +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

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Verb

cémenter

1. to cement

Conjugation

Conjugation of cémenter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	cémenter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	cémentant /se.mɑ̃.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		cémenté /se.mɑ̃.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	cémente /se.mɑ̃t/	cémentes /se.mɑ̃t/	cémente /se.mɑ̃t/	cémentons /se.mɑ̃.tɔ̃/	cémentez /se.mɑ̃.te/	cémentent /se.mɑ̃t/
	imperfect	cémentais /se.mɑ̃.tɛ/	cémentais /se.mɑ̃.tɛ/	cémentait /se.mɑ̃.tɛ/	cémentions /se.mɑ̃.tjɔ̃/	cémentiez /se.mɑ̃.tje/	cémentaient /se.mɑ̃.tɛ/
	past historic2	cémentai /se.mɑ̃.te/	cémentas /se.mɑ̃.ta/	cémenta /se.mɑ̃.ta/	cémentâmes /se.mɑ̃.tam/	cémentâtes /se.mɑ̃.tat/	cémentèrent /se.mɑ̃.tɛʁ/
	future	cémenterai /se.mɑ̃.tʁe/	cémenteras /se.mɑ̃.tʁa/	cémentera /se.mɑ̃.tʁa/	cémenterons /se.mɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/	cémenterez /se.mɑ̃.tʁe/	cémenteront /se.mɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	cémenterais /se.mɑ̃.tʁɛ/	cémenterais /se.mɑ̃.tʁɛ/	cémenterait /se.mɑ̃.tʁɛ/	cémenterions /se.mɑ̃.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	cémenteriez /se.mɑ̃.tə.ʁje/	cémenteraient /se.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	cémente /se.mɑ̃t/	cémentes /se.mɑ̃t/	cémente /se.mɑ̃t/	cémentions /se.mɑ̃.tjɔ̃/	cémentiez /se.mɑ̃.tje/	cémentent /se.mɑ̃t/
	imperfect2	cémentasse /se.mɑ̃.tas/	cémentasses /se.mɑ̃.tas/	cémentât /se.mɑ̃.ta/	cémentassions /se.mɑ̃.ta.sjɔ̃/	cémentassiez /se.mɑ̃.ta.sje/	cémentassent /se.mɑ̃.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	cémente /se.mɑ̃t/	—	cémentons /se.mɑ̃.tɔ̃/	cémentez /se.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).

Related terms

• cémentation

Further reading

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