communier

French

Etymology

Borrowed (according to the TLFi) from Ecclesiastical Latin commūnicāre, present active infinitive of commūnicō. Doublet of communiquer, a more recent borrowing.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /kɔ.my.nje/
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Verb

communier

(intransitive) To receive communion
(transitive) To administer communion
(transitive) To communicate

Conjugation

Conjugation of communier (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive
present participle		communiant /kɔ.my.njɑ̃/
past participle		communié /kɔ.my.nje/
simple		communier
compound		avoir + past participle
gerund¹
simple		communiant /kɔ.my.njɑ̃/
compound		ayant + past participle
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	communie /kɔ.my.ni/	communies /kɔ.my.ni/	communie /kɔ.my.ni/	communions /kɔ.my.njɔ̃/	communiez /kɔ.my.nje/	communient /kɔ.my.ni/
	imperfect	communiais /kɔ.my.njɛ/	communiais /kɔ.my.njɛ/	communiait /kɔ.my.njɛ/	communiions /kɔ.my.ni.jɔ̃/	communiiez /kɔ.my.ni.je/	communiaient /kɔ.my.njɛ/
	past historic²	communiai /kɔ.my.nje/	communias /kɔ.my.nja/	communia /kɔ.my.nja/	communiâmes /kɔ.my.njam/	communiâtes /kɔ.my.njat/	communièrent /kɔ.my.njɛʁ/
	future	communierai /kɔ.my.ni.ʁe/	communieras /kɔ.my.ni.ʁa/	communiera /kɔ.my.ni.ʁa/	communierons /kɔ.my.ni.ʁɔ̃/	communierez /kɔ.my.ni.ʁe/	communieront /kɔ.my.ni.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	communierais /kɔ.my.ni.ʁɛ/	communierais /kɔ.my.ni.ʁɛ/	communierait /kɔ.my.ni.ʁɛ/	communierions /kɔ.my.ni.ʁjɔ̃/	communieriez /kɔ.my.ni.ʁje/	communieraient /kɔ.my.ni.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	communie /kɔ.my.ni/	communies /kɔ.my.ni/	communie /kɔ.my.ni/	communiions /kɔ.my.ni.jɔ̃/	communiiez /kɔ.my.ni.je/	communient /kɔ.my.ni/
(simple tenses)	imperfect²	communiasse /kɔ.my.njas/	communiasses /kɔ.my.njas/	communiât /kɔ.my.nja/	communiassions /kɔ.my.nja.sjɔ̃/	communiassiez /kɔ.my.nja.sje/	communiassent /kɔ.my.njas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
(compound tenses)	pluperfect²	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	~~nous~~	~~vous~~	–
simple		—	communie /kɔ.my.ni/	—	communions /kɔ.my.njɔ̃/	communiez /kɔ.my.nje/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
¹ Only usable with preposition en.
² In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).