expérimenter

See also: experimenter

French

Etymology

From Old French experiment + -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛk.spe.ʁi.mɑ̃.te/

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Verb

expérimenter

1. (intransitive) to experiment
2. (transitive) to experience

Conjugation

Conjugation of expérimenter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	expérimenter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	expérimentant /ɛk.spe.ʁi.mɑ̃.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		expérimenté /ɛk.spe.ʁi.mɑ̃.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	expérimente /ɛk.spe.ʁi.mɑ̃t/	expérimentes /ɛk.spe.ʁi.mɑ̃t/	expérimente /ɛk.spe.ʁi.mɑ̃t/	expérimentons /ɛk.spe.ʁi.mɑ̃.tɔ̃/	expérimentez /ɛk.spe.ʁi.mɑ̃.te/	expérimentent /ɛk.spe.ʁi.mɑ̃t/
	imperfect	expérimentais /ɛk.spe.ʁi.mɑ̃.tɛ/	expérimentais /ɛk.spe.ʁi.mɑ̃.tɛ/	expérimentait /ɛk.spe.ʁi.mɑ̃.tɛ/	expérimentions /ɛk.spe.ʁi.mɑ̃.tjɔ̃/	expérimentiez /ɛk.spe.ʁi.mɑ̃.tje/	expérimentaient /ɛk.spe.ʁi.mɑ̃.tɛ/
	past historic2	expérimentai /ɛk.spe.ʁi.mɑ̃.te/	expérimentas /ɛk.spe.ʁi.mɑ̃.ta/	expérimenta /ɛk.spe.ʁi.mɑ̃.ta/	expérimentâmes /ɛk.spe.ʁi.mɑ̃.tam/	expérimentâtes /ɛk.spe.ʁi.mɑ̃.tat/	expérimentèrent /ɛk.spe.ʁi.mɑ̃.tɛʁ/
	future	expérimenterai /ɛk.spe.ʁi.mɑ̃.tʁe/	expérimenteras /ɛk.spe.ʁi.mɑ̃.tʁa/	expérimentera /ɛk.spe.ʁi.mɑ̃.tʁa/	expérimenterons /ɛk.spe.ʁi.mɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/	expérimenterez /ɛk.spe.ʁi.mɑ̃.tʁe/	expérimenteront /ɛk.spe.ʁi.mɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	expérimenterais /ɛk.spe.ʁi.mɑ̃.tʁɛ/	expérimenterais /ɛk.spe.ʁi.mɑ̃.tʁɛ/	expérimenterait /ɛk.spe.ʁi.mɑ̃.tʁɛ/	expérimenterions /ɛk.spe.ʁi.mɑ̃.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	expérimenteriez /ɛk.spe.ʁi.mɑ̃.tə.ʁje/	expérimenteraient /ɛk.spe.ʁi.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	expérimente /ɛk.spe.ʁi.mɑ̃t/	expérimentes /ɛk.spe.ʁi.mɑ̃t/	expérimente /ɛk.spe.ʁi.mɑ̃t/	expérimentions /ɛk.spe.ʁi.mɑ̃.tjɔ̃/	expérimentiez /ɛk.spe.ʁi.mɑ̃.tje/	expérimentent /ɛk.spe.ʁi.mɑ̃t/
	imperfect2	expérimentasse /ɛk.spe.ʁi.mɑ̃.tas/	expérimentasses /ɛk.spe.ʁi.mɑ̃.tas/	expérimentât /ɛk.spe.ʁi.mɑ̃.ta/	expérimentassions /ɛk.spe.ʁi.mɑ̃.ta.sjɔ̃/	expérimentassiez /ɛk.spe.ʁi.mɑ̃.ta.sje/	expérimentassent /ɛk.spe.ʁi.mɑ̃.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	expérimente /ɛk.spe.ʁi.mɑ̃t/	—	expérimentons /ɛk.spe.ʁi.mɑ̃.tɔ̃/	expérimentez /ɛk.spe.ʁi.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).

Derived terms

• expérimentation

Further reading

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