cimenter

French

Etymology

From ciment +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /si.mɑ̃.te/

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Verb

cimenter

1. (transitive) to cement
2. (transitive) to confirm

Conjugation

Conjugation of cimenter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	cimenter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	cimentant /si.mɑ̃.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		cimenté /si.mɑ̃.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	cimente /si.mɑ̃t/	cimentes /si.mɑ̃t/	cimente /si.mɑ̃t/	cimentons /si.mɑ̃.tɔ̃/	cimentez /si.mɑ̃.te/	cimentent /si.mɑ̃t/
	imperfect	cimentais /si.mɑ̃.tɛ/	cimentais /si.mɑ̃.tɛ/	cimentait /si.mɑ̃.tɛ/	cimentions /si.mɑ̃.tjɔ̃/	cimentiez /si.mɑ̃.tje/	cimentaient /si.mɑ̃.tɛ/
	past historic2	cimentai /si.mɑ̃.te/	cimentas /si.mɑ̃.ta/	cimenta /si.mɑ̃.ta/	cimentâmes /si.mɑ̃.tam/	cimentâtes /si.mɑ̃.tat/	cimentèrent /si.mɑ̃.tɛʁ/
	future	cimenterai /si.mɑ̃.tʁe/	cimenteras /si.mɑ̃.tʁa/	cimentera /si.mɑ̃.tʁa/	cimenterons /si.mɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/	cimenterez /si.mɑ̃.tʁe/	cimenteront /si.mɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	cimenterais /si.mɑ̃.tʁɛ/	cimenterais /si.mɑ̃.tʁɛ/	cimenterait /si.mɑ̃.tʁɛ/	cimenterions /si.mɑ̃.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	cimenteriez /si.mɑ̃.tə.ʁje/	cimenteraient /si.mɑ̃.tʁɛ/
(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	cimente /si.mɑ̃t/	cimentes /si.mɑ̃t/	cimente /si.mɑ̃t/	cimentions /si.mɑ̃.tjɔ̃/	cimentiez /si.mɑ̃.tje/	cimentent /si.mɑ̃t/
	imperfect2	cimentasse /si.mɑ̃.tas/	cimentasses /si.mɑ̃.tas/	cimentât /si.mɑ̃.ta/	cimentassions /si.mɑ̃.ta.sjɔ̃/	cimentassiez /si.mɑ̃.ta.sje/	cimentassent /si.mɑ̃.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	cimente /si.mɑ̃t/	—	cimentons /si.mɑ̃.tɔ̃/	cimentez /si.mɑ̃.te/	—
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: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

• “cimenter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.