prémunir

French

Alternative forms

præmunir (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin praemunire.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /pʁemyniʁ/

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)

infinitive
present participle		prémunissant /pʁe.my.ni.sɑ̃/
past participle		prémuni /pʁe.my.ni/
simple		prémunir
compound		avoir + past participle
gerund¹
simple		prémunissant /pʁe.my.ni.sɑ̃/
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	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/
	past historic²	prémunis /pʁe.my.ni/	prémunis /pʁe.my.ni/	prémunit /pʁe.my.ni/	prémunîmes /pʁe.my.nim/	prémunîtes /pʁe.my.nit/	prémunirent /pʁe.my.niʁ/
	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/
	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/
(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	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/
(simple tenses)	imperfect²	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/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
(compound tenses)	pluperfect²	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	~~nous~~	~~vous~~	–
simple		—	prémunis /pʁe.my.ni/	—	prémunissons /pʁe.my.ni.sɔ̃/	prémunissez /pʁe.my.ni.se/	—
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).