discriminer

See also: discriminner

French

Etymology

From Latin discrimināre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dis.kʁi.mi.ne/

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Verb

discriminer

1. to discriminate (to differentiate)
2. to discriminate (to treat people based on prejudice)

Conjugation

Conjugation of discriminer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	discriminer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	discriminant /dis.kʁi.mi.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		discriminé /dis.kʁi.mi.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	discrimine /dis.kʁi.min/	discrimines /dis.kʁi.min/	discrimine /dis.kʁi.min/	discriminons /dis.kʁi.mi.nɔ̃/	discriminez /dis.kʁi.mi.ne/	discriminent /dis.kʁi.min/
	imperfect	discriminais /dis.kʁi.mi.nɛ/	discriminais /dis.kʁi.mi.nɛ/	discriminait /dis.kʁi.mi.nɛ/	discriminions /dis.kʁi.mi.njɔ̃/	discriminiez /dis.kʁi.mi.nje/	discriminaient /dis.kʁi.mi.nɛ/
	past historic2	discriminai /dis.kʁi.mi.ne/	discriminas /dis.kʁi.mi.na/	discrimina /dis.kʁi.mi.na/	discriminâmes /dis.kʁi.mi.nam/	discriminâtes /dis.kʁi.mi.nat/	discriminèrent /dis.kʁi.mi.nɛʁ/
	future	discriminerai /dis.kʁi.min.ʁe/	discrimineras /dis.kʁi.min.ʁa/	discriminera /dis.kʁi.min.ʁa/	discriminerons /dis.kʁi.min.ʁɔ̃/	discriminerez /dis.kʁi.min.ʁe/	discrimineront /dis.kʁi.min.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	discriminerais /dis.kʁi.min.ʁɛ/	discriminerais /dis.kʁi.min.ʁɛ/	discriminerait /dis.kʁi.min.ʁɛ/	discriminerions /dis.kʁi.mi.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	discrimineriez /dis.kʁi.mi.nə.ʁje/	discrimineraient /dis.kʁi.min.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	discrimine /dis.kʁi.min/	discrimines /dis.kʁi.min/	discrimine /dis.kʁi.min/	discriminions /dis.kʁi.mi.njɔ̃/	discriminiez /dis.kʁi.mi.nje/	discriminent /dis.kʁi.min/
	imperfect2	discriminasse /dis.kʁi.mi.nas/	discriminasses /dis.kʁi.mi.nas/	discriminât /dis.kʁi.mi.na/	discriminassions /dis.kʁi.mi.na.sjɔ̃/	discriminassiez /dis.kʁi.mi.na.sje/	discriminassent /dis.kʁi.mi.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	discrimine /dis.kʁi.min/	—	discriminons /dis.kʁi.mi.nɔ̃/	discriminez /dis.kʁi.mi.ne/	—
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

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

Latin

Verb

discrīminer

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of discrīminō