parsemer

French

Etymology

From par + semer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /paʁ.sə.me/

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Verb

parsemer

1. (transitive) to sprinkle, scatter, strew (de with)
2. (transitive) to be scattered or strewn over

   Je regardais les astres qui parsemaient le ciel. I was watching the stars which were scattered across the sky.

Conjugation

This verb is conjugated like parler, except the -e- /ə/ of the second-to-last syllable becomes -è- /ɛ/ when the next vowel is a silent or schwa -e-, as in the third-person singular present indicative il parsème and the third-person singular future indicative il parsèmera.

Conjugation of parsemer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	parsemer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	parsemant /paʁ.sə.mɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		parsemé /paʁ.sə.me/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	parsème /paʁ.sɛm/	parsèmes /paʁ.sɛm/	parsème /paʁ.sɛm/	parsemons /paʁ.sə.mɔ̃/	parsemez /paʁ.sə.me/	parsèment /paʁ.sɛm/
	imperfect	parsemais /paʁ.sə.mɛ/	parsemais /paʁ.sə.mɛ/	parsemait /paʁ.sə.mɛ/	parsemions /paʁ.sə.mjɔ̃/	parsemiez /paʁ.sə.mje/	parsemaient /paʁ.sə.mɛ/
	past historic2	parsemai /paʁ.sə.me/	parsemas /paʁ.sə.ma/	parsema /paʁ.sə.ma/	parsemâmes /paʁ.sə.mam/	parsemâtes /paʁ.sə.mat/	parsemèrent /paʁ.sə.mɛʁ/
	future	parsèmerai /paʁ.sɛm.ʁe/	parsèmeras /paʁ.sɛm.ʁa/	parsèmera /paʁ.sɛm.ʁa/	parsèmerons /paʁ.sɛm.ʁɔ̃/	parsèmerez /paʁ.sɛm.ʁe/	parsèmeront /paʁ.sɛm.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	parsèmerais /paʁ.sɛm.ʁɛ/	parsèmerais /paʁ.sɛm.ʁɛ/	parsèmerait /paʁ.sɛm.ʁɛ/	parsèmerions /paʁ.sɛ.mə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /paʁ.se.mə.ʁjɔ̃/	parsèmeriez /paʁ.sɛ.mə.ʁje/ or /paʁ.se.mə.ʁje/	parsèmeraient /paʁ.sɛm.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	parsème /paʁ.sɛm/	parsèmes /paʁ.sɛm/	parsème /paʁ.sɛm/	parsemions /paʁ.sə.mjɔ̃/	parsemiez /paʁ.sə.mje/	parsèment /paʁ.sɛm/
	imperfect2	parsemasse /paʁ.sə.mas/	parsemasses /paʁ.sə.mas/	parsemât /paʁ.sə.ma/	parsemassions /paʁ.sə.ma.sjɔ̃/	parsemassiez /paʁ.sə.ma.sje/	parsemassent /paʁ.sə.mas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	parsème /paʁ.sɛm/	—	parsemons /paʁ.sə.mɔ̃/	parsemez /paʁ.sə.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).

Further reading

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