incriminer

French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin incrīmināre, from Latin crīmen (whence crime.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.kʁi.mi.ne/

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Verb

incriminer

1. (transitive) to incriminate, accuse

   Synonym: mettre en cause

Conjugation

Conjugation of incriminer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	incriminer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	incriminant /ɛ̃.kʁi.mi.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		incriminé /ɛ̃.kʁi.mi.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	incrimine /ɛ̃.kʁi.min/	incrimines /ɛ̃.kʁi.min/	incrimine /ɛ̃.kʁi.min/	incriminons /ɛ̃.kʁi.mi.nɔ̃/	incriminez /ɛ̃.kʁi.mi.ne/	incriminent /ɛ̃.kʁi.min/
	imperfect	incriminais /ɛ̃.kʁi.mi.nɛ/	incriminais /ɛ̃.kʁi.mi.nɛ/	incriminait /ɛ̃.kʁi.mi.nɛ/	incriminions /ɛ̃.kʁi.mi.njɔ̃/	incriminiez /ɛ̃.kʁi.mi.nje/	incriminaient /ɛ̃.kʁi.mi.nɛ/
	past historic2	incriminai /ɛ̃.kʁi.mi.ne/	incriminas /ɛ̃.kʁi.mi.na/	incrimina /ɛ̃.kʁi.mi.na/	incriminâmes /ɛ̃.kʁi.mi.nam/	incriminâtes /ɛ̃.kʁi.mi.nat/	incriminèrent /ɛ̃.kʁi.mi.nɛʁ/
	future	incriminerai /ɛ̃.kʁi.min.ʁe/	incrimineras /ɛ̃.kʁi.min.ʁa/	incriminera /ɛ̃.kʁi.min.ʁa/	incriminerons /ɛ̃.kʁi.min.ʁɔ̃/	incriminerez /ɛ̃.kʁi.min.ʁe/	incrimineront /ɛ̃.kʁi.min.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	incriminerais /ɛ̃.kʁi.min.ʁɛ/	incriminerais /ɛ̃.kʁi.min.ʁɛ/	incriminerait /ɛ̃.kʁi.min.ʁɛ/	incriminerions /ɛ̃.kʁi.mi.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	incrimineriez /ɛ̃.kʁi.mi.nə.ʁje/	incrimineraient /ɛ̃.kʁi.min.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	incrimine /ɛ̃.kʁi.min/	incrimines /ɛ̃.kʁi.min/	incrimine /ɛ̃.kʁi.min/	incriminions /ɛ̃.kʁi.mi.njɔ̃/	incriminiez /ɛ̃.kʁi.mi.nje/	incriminent /ɛ̃.kʁi.min/
	imperfect2	incriminasse /ɛ̃.kʁi.mi.nas/	incriminasses /ɛ̃.kʁi.mi.nas/	incriminât /ɛ̃.kʁi.mi.na/	incriminassions /ɛ̃.kʁi.mi.na.sjɔ̃/	incriminassiez /ɛ̃.kʁi.mi.na.sje/	incriminassent /ɛ̃.kʁi.mi.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	incrimine /ɛ̃.kʁi.min/	—	incriminons /ɛ̃.kʁi.mi.nɔ̃/	incriminez /ɛ̃.kʁi.mi.ne/	—
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

• incrimination

Related terms

• récriminer

Further reading

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