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prémunir
prémunir
French
Alternative forms
- præmunir (obsolete)
Verb
prémunir
- (transitive, literary) to warn
- (transitive, literary) to protect (contre against)
- (takes a reflexive pronoun) to protect oneself (contre from), guard (contre against)
Conjugation
This is a regular verb of the second conjugation, like finir, choisir, and most other verbs with infinitives ending in -ir. One salient feature of this conjugation is the repeated appearance of the infix -iss-.
Conjugation of prémunir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | prémunir | avoir prémuni | |||||
| gerund | en prémunissant | en ayant prémuni | |||||
| present participle | prémunissant /pʁe.my.ni.sɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | prémuni /pʁe.my.ni/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | prémunis /pʁe.my.ni/ |
prémunis /pʁe.my.ni/ |
prémunit /pʁe.my.ni/ |
prémunissons /pʁe.my.ni.sɔ̃/ |
prémunissez /pʁe.my.ni.se/ |
prémunissent /pʁe.my.nis/ |
| imperfect | prémunissais /pʁe.my.ni.sɛ/ |
prémunissais /pʁe.my.ni.sɛ/ |
prémunissait /pʁe.my.ni.sɛ/ |
prémunissions /pʁe.my.ni.sjɔ̃/ |
prémunissiez /pʁe.my.ni.sje/ |
prémunissaient /pʁe.my.ni.sɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | prémunis /pʁe.my.ni/ |
prémunis /pʁe.my.ni/ |
prémunit /pʁe.my.ni/ |
prémunîmes /pʁe.my.nim/ |
prémunîtes /pʁe.my.nit/ |
prémunirent /pʁe.my.niʁ/ |
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| future | prémunirai /pʁe.my.ni.ʁe/ |
prémuniras /pʁe.my.ni.ʁa/ |
prémunira /pʁe.my.ni.ʁa/ |
prémunirons /pʁe.my.ni.ʁɔ̃/ |
prémunirez /pʁe.my.ni.ʁe/ |
prémuniront /pʁe.my.ni.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | prémunirais /pʁe.my.ni.ʁɛ/ |
prémunirais /pʁe.my.ni.ʁɛ/ |
prémunirait /pʁe.my.ni.ʁɛ/ |
prémunirions /pʁe.my.ni.ʁjɔ̃/ |
prémuniriez /pʁe.my.ni.ʁje/ |
prémuniraient /pʁe.my.ni.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 | prémunisse /pʁe.my.nis/ |
prémunisses /pʁe.my.nis/ |
prémunisse /pʁe.my.nis/ |
prémunissions /pʁe.my.ni.sjɔ̃/ |
prémunissiez /pʁe.my.ni.sje/ |
prémunissent /pʁe.my.nis/ |
| imperfect1 |
prémunisse /pʁe.my.nis/ |
prémunisses /pʁe.my.nis/ |
prémunît /pʁe.my.ni/ |
prémunissions /pʁe.my.ni.sjɔ̃/ |
prémunissiez /pʁe.my.ni.sje/ |
prémunissent /pʁe.my.nis/ |
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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 | – | |
| — | prémunis /pʁe.my.ni/ |
— | prémunissons /pʁe.my.ni.sɔ̃/ |
prémunissez /pʁe.my.ni.se/ |
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| 1literary tenses | |||||||