trimer
See also: trímer
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Etymology edit
Noun edit
trimer (plural trimers)
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French edit
Etymology edit
Uncertain, possibly alteration of Old French trumer (“to run”), early 18th c.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
trimer
- (colloquial) to slave away (to work very hard)
- J’ai trimé toute la journée.
- I have been slaving away all day.
- (dated) to walk for a long time; to tramp
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of trimer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | trimer | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | trimant /tʁi.mɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | trimé /tʁi.me/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | trime /tʁim/ |
trimes /tʁim/ |
trime /tʁim/ |
trimons /tʁi.mɔ̃/ |
trimez /tʁi.me/ |
triment /tʁim/ |
imperfect | trimais /tʁi.mɛ/ |
trimais /tʁi.mɛ/ |
trimait /tʁi.mɛ/ |
trimions /tʁi.mjɔ̃/ |
trimiez /tʁi.mje/ |
trimaient /tʁi.mɛ/ | |
past historic2 | trimai /tʁi.me/ |
trimas /tʁi.ma/ |
trima /tʁi.ma/ |
trimâmes /tʁi.mam/ |
trimâtes /tʁi.mat/ |
trimèrent /tʁi.mɛʁ/ | |
future | trimerai /tʁim.ʁe/ |
trimeras /tʁim.ʁa/ |
trimera /tʁim.ʁa/ |
trimerons /tʁim.ʁɔ̃/ |
trimerez /tʁim.ʁe/ |
trimeront /tʁim.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | trimerais /tʁim.ʁɛ/ |
trimerais /tʁim.ʁɛ/ |
trimerait /tʁim.ʁɛ/ |
trimerions /tʁi.mə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
trimeriez /tʁi.mə.ʁje/ |
trimeraient /tʁim.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 | trime /tʁim/ |
trimes /tʁim/ |
trime /tʁim/ |
trimions /tʁi.mjɔ̃/ |
trimiez /tʁi.mje/ |
triment /tʁim/ |
imperfect2 | trimasse /tʁi.mas/ |
trimasses /tʁi.mas/ |
trimât /tʁi.ma/ |
trimassions /tʁi.ma.sjɔ̃/ |
trimassiez /tʁi.ma.sje/ |
trimassent /tʁi.mas/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | trime /tʁim/ |
— | trimons /tʁi.mɔ̃/ |
trimez /tʁi.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). |
Further reading edit
- “trimer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.