exprimer
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin exprimere, present active infinitive of exprimō. Compare the inherited doublet épreindre.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɛk.spʁi.me/
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Verb
exprimer
- (transitive) to express
- (reflexive, s'exprimer) to express oneself
- Guardiola préfère les vestiaires et le terrain pour s'exprimer.
- Guardiola prefers to express himself in the dressing room and on the pitch.
- Guardiola préfère les vestiaires et le terrain pour s'exprimer.
Conjugation
Conjugation of exprimer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| present participle | exprimant /ɛk.spʁi.mɑ̃/ | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| past participle | exprimé /ɛk.spʁi.me/ | ||||||
| infinitive | |||||||
| simple | exprimer | ||||||
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| gerund1 | |||||||
| simple | exprimant /ɛk.spʁi.mɑ̃/ | ||||||
| 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 | exprime /ɛk.spʁim/ |
exprimes /ɛk.spʁim/ |
exprime /ɛk.spʁim/ |
exprimons /ɛk.spʁi.mɔ̃/ |
exprimez /ɛk.spʁi.me/ |
expriment /ɛk.spʁim/ |
| imperfect | exprimais /ɛk.spʁi.mɛ/ |
exprimais /ɛk.spʁi.mɛ/ |
exprimait /ɛk.spʁi.mɛ/ |
exprimions /ɛk.spʁi.mjɔ̃/ |
exprimiez /ɛk.spʁi.mje/ |
exprimaient /ɛk.spʁi.mɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | exprimai /ɛk.spʁi.me/ |
exprimas /ɛk.spʁi.ma/ |
exprima /ɛk.spʁi.ma/ |
exprimâmes /ɛk.spʁi.mam/ |
exprimâtes /ɛk.spʁi.mat/ |
exprimèrent /ɛk.spʁi.mɛʁ/ | |
| future | exprimerai /ɛk.spʁim.ʁe/ |
exprimeras /ɛk.spʁim.ʁa/ |
exprimera /ɛk.spʁim.ʁa/ |
exprimerons /ɛk.spʁim.ʁɔ̃/ |
exprimerez /ɛk.spʁim.ʁe/ |
exprimeront /ɛk.spʁim.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | exprimerais /ɛk.spʁim.ʁɛ/ |
exprimerais /ɛk.spʁim.ʁɛ/ |
exprimerait /ɛk.spʁim.ʁɛ/ |
exprimerions /ɛk.spʁi.mə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
exprimeriez /ɛk.spʁi.mə.ʁje/ |
exprimeraient /ɛk.spʁim.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 | exprime /ɛk.spʁim/ |
exprimes /ɛk.spʁim/ |
exprime /ɛk.spʁim/ |
exprimions /ɛk.spʁi.mjɔ̃/ |
exprimiez /ɛk.spʁi.mje/ |
expriment /ɛk.spʁim/ |
| imperfect2 | exprimasse /ɛk.spʁi.mas/ |
exprimasses /ɛk.spʁi.mas/ |
exprimât /ɛk.spʁi.ma/ |
exprimassions /ɛk.spʁi.ma.sjɔ̃/ |
exprimassiez /ɛk.spʁi.ma.sje/ |
exprimassent /ɛk.spʁi.mas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | exprime /ɛk.spʁim/ |
— | exprimons /ɛk.spʁi.mɔ̃/ |
exprimez /ɛk.spʁi.me/ |
— | |
| 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). | |||||||
Related terms
Further reading
- “exprimer” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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