comprimer

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin comprimere.

Pronunciation

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Verb

comprimer

1. to compress

Conjugation

Conjugation of comprimer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	comprimer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	comprimant /kɔ̃.pʁi.mɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		comprimé /kɔ̃.pʁi.me/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	comprime /kɔ̃.pʁim/	comprimes /kɔ̃.pʁim/	comprime /kɔ̃.pʁim/	comprimons /kɔ̃.pʁi.mɔ̃/	comprimez /kɔ̃.pʁi.me/	compriment /kɔ̃.pʁim/
	imperfect	comprimais /kɔ̃.pʁi.mɛ/	comprimais /kɔ̃.pʁi.mɛ/	comprimait /kɔ̃.pʁi.mɛ/	comprimions /kɔ̃.pʁi.mjɔ̃/	comprimiez /kɔ̃.pʁi.mje/	comprimaient /kɔ̃.pʁi.mɛ/
	past historic2	comprimai /kɔ̃.pʁi.me/	comprimas /kɔ̃.pʁi.ma/	comprima /kɔ̃.pʁi.ma/	comprimâmes /kɔ̃.pʁi.mam/	comprimâtes /kɔ̃.pʁi.mat/	comprimèrent /kɔ̃.pʁi.mɛʁ/
	future	comprimerai /kɔ̃.pʁim.ʁe/	comprimeras /kɔ̃.pʁim.ʁa/	comprimera /kɔ̃.pʁim.ʁa/	comprimerons /kɔ̃.pʁim.ʁɔ̃/	comprimerez /kɔ̃.pʁim.ʁe/	comprimeront /kɔ̃.pʁim.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	comprimerais /kɔ̃.pʁim.ʁɛ/	comprimerais /kɔ̃.pʁim.ʁɛ/	comprimerait /kɔ̃.pʁim.ʁɛ/	comprimerions /kɔ̃.pʁi.mə.ʁjɔ̃/	comprimeriez /kɔ̃.pʁi.mə.ʁje/	comprimeraient /kɔ̃.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	comprime /kɔ̃.pʁim/	comprimes /kɔ̃.pʁim/	comprime /kɔ̃.pʁim/	comprimions /kɔ̃.pʁi.mjɔ̃/	comprimiez /kɔ̃.pʁi.mje/	compriment /kɔ̃.pʁim/
	imperfect2	comprimasse /kɔ̃.pʁi.mas/	comprimasses /kɔ̃.pʁi.mas/	comprimât /kɔ̃.pʁi.ma/	comprimassions /kɔ̃.pʁi.ma.sjɔ̃/	comprimassiez /kɔ̃.pʁi.ma.sje/	comprimassent /kɔ̃.pʁi.mas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	comprime /kɔ̃.pʁim/	—	comprimons /kɔ̃.pʁi.mɔ̃/	comprimez /kɔ̃.pʁi.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: 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).

Derived terms

• air comprimé

Further reading

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