exprimer
French edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Latin exprimere. Compare the inherited doublet épreindre.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
exprimer
- (transitive) to express
- (reflexive) to express oneself
- Je me suis mal exprimé. ― I misspoke.
- Il lui est parfois difficile de s’exprimer clairement à cause de sa forme particulière d’intelligence.
- It's sometimes difficult for him to express himself clearly because of his peculiar form of intelligence.
- Guardiola préfère les vestiaires et le terrain pour s’exprimer.
- Guardiola prefers to express himself in the dressing room and on the pitch.
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of exprimer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | exprimer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | exprimant /ɛk.spʁi.mɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | exprimé /ɛk.spʁi.me/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | 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 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- “exprimer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.