réprimer
See also: reprimer
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʁe.pʁi.me/
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Verb
réprimer
- (transitive) to suppress, quell (stop the spread of something considered bad or wrong)
- (transitive) to repress, stifle (prevent the growth of)
- (transitive) to repress, muffle (prevent someone speaking out)
- (transitive) to hold back, to stunt (make someone refrain from doing something)
- (transitive) to cut down, subdue (reduce the level of, e.g. crime)
Conjugation
Conjugation of réprimer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| present participle | réprimant /ʁe.pʁi.mɑ̃/ | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| past participle | réprimé /ʁe.pʁi.me/ | ||||||
| infinitive | |||||||
| simple | réprimer | ||||||
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| gerund1 | |||||||
| simple | réprimant /ʁe.pʁi.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 | réprime /ʁe.pʁim/ |
réprimes /ʁe.pʁim/ |
réprime /ʁe.pʁim/ |
réprimons /ʁe.pʁi.mɔ̃/ |
réprimez /ʁe.pʁi.me/ |
répriment /ʁe.pʁim/ |
| imperfect | réprimais /ʁe.pʁi.mɛ/ |
réprimais /ʁe.pʁi.mɛ/ |
réprimait /ʁe.pʁi.mɛ/ |
réprimions /ʁe.pʁi.mjɔ̃/ |
réprimiez /ʁe.pʁi.mje/ |
réprimaient /ʁe.pʁi.mɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | réprimai /ʁe.pʁi.me/ |
réprimas /ʁe.pʁi.ma/ |
réprima /ʁe.pʁi.ma/ |
réprimâmes /ʁe.pʁi.mam/ |
réprimâtes /ʁe.pʁi.mat/ |
réprimèrent /ʁe.pʁi.mɛʁ/ | |
| future | réprimerai /ʁe.pʁim.ʁe/ |
réprimeras /ʁe.pʁim.ʁa/ |
réprimera /ʁe.pʁim.ʁa/ |
réprimerons /ʁe.pʁim.ʁɔ̃/ |
réprimerez /ʁe.pʁim.ʁe/ |
réprimeront /ʁe.pʁim.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | réprimerais /ʁe.pʁim.ʁɛ/ |
réprimerais /ʁe.pʁim.ʁɛ/ |
réprimerait /ʁe.pʁim.ʁɛ/ |
réprimerions /ʁe.pʁi.mə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
réprimeriez /ʁe.pʁi.mə.ʁje/ |
réprimeraient /ʁe.pʁim.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 | réprime /ʁe.pʁim/ |
réprimes /ʁe.pʁim/ |
réprime /ʁe.pʁim/ |
réprimions /ʁe.pʁi.mjɔ̃/ |
réprimiez /ʁe.pʁi.mje/ |
répriment /ʁe.pʁim/ |
| imperfect2 | réprimasse /ʁe.pʁi.mas/ |
réprimasses /ʁe.pʁi.mas/ |
réprimât /ʁe.pʁi.ma/ |
réprimassions /ʁe.pʁi.ma.sjɔ̃/ |
réprimassiez /ʁe.pʁi.ma.sje/ |
réprimassent /ʁe.pʁi.mas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | réprime /ʁe.pʁim/ |
— | réprimons /ʁe.pʁi.mɔ̃/ |
réprimez /ʁe.pʁi.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). | |||||||
Further reading
- “réprimer” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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