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écumer
écumer
French
Verb
écumer
- (intransitive) to foam, foam up, froth, froth up
- (intransitive) to lather (as of a horse)
- (transitive) to unfoam, remove foam from
- (transitive) to take the scum off
- (transitive) to skim
- (figuratively) to scour (shops, etc., looking for something)
Conjugation
Conjugation of écumer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | écumer | avoir écumé | |||||
| gerund | en écumant | en ayant écumé | |||||
| present participle | écumant /e.ky.mɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | écumé /e.ky.me/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | écume /e.kym/ |
écumes /e.kym/ |
écume /e.kym/ |
écumons /e.ky.mɔ̃/ |
écumez /e.ky.me/ |
écument /e.kym/ |
| imperfect | écumais /e.ky.mɛ/ |
écumais /e.ky.mɛ/ |
écumait /e.ky.mɛ/ |
écumions /e.ky.mjɔ̃/ |
écumiez /e.ky.mje/ |
écumaient /e.ky.mɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | écumai /e.ky.me/ |
écumas /e.ky.ma/ |
écuma /e.ky.ma/ |
écumâmes /e.ky.mam/ |
écumâtes /e.ky.mat/ |
écumèrent /e.ky.mɛʁ/ |
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| future | écumerai /e.kym.ʁe/ |
écumeras /e.kym.ʁa/ |
écumera /e.kym.ʁa/ |
écumerons /e.kym.ʁɔ̃/ |
écumerez /e.kym.ʁe/ |
écumeront /e.kym.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | écumerais /e.kym.ʁɛ/ |
écumerais /e.kym.ʁɛ/ |
écumerait /e.kym.ʁɛ/ |
écumerions /e.ky.mə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
écumeriez /e.ky.mə.ʁje/ |
écumeraient /e.kym.ʁɛ/ |
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| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior1 | Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | écume /e.kym/ |
écumes /e.kym/ |
écume /e.kym/ |
écumions /e.ky.mjɔ̃/ |
écumiez /e.ky.mje/ |
écument /e.kym/ |
| imperfect1 |
écumasse /e.ky.mas/ |
écumasses /e.ky.mas/ |
écumât /e.ky.ma/ |
écumassions /e.ky.ma.sjɔ̃/ |
écumassiez /e.ky.ma.sje/ |
écumassent /e.ky.mas/ |
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| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | écume /e.kym/ |
— | écumons /e.ky.mɔ̃/ |
écumez /e.ky.me/ |
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| 1literary tenses | |||||||
Related terms
- écumer le pot