frémir

See also: fremir

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French fremir, from Old French fremir, from Vulgar Latin *fremiō, from Latin fremō, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrem-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fʁe.miʁ/

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Verb

frémir

1. to quiver; to shiver
2. to simmer

Conjugation

This is a regular verb of the second conjugation, like finir, choisir, and most other verbs with infinitives ending in -ir. One salient feature of this conjugation is the repeated appearance of the infix -iss-.

Conjugation of frémir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	frémir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	frémissant /fʁe.mi.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		frémi /fʁe.mi/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	frémis /fʁe.mi/	frémis /fʁe.mi/	frémit /fʁe.mi/	frémissons /fʁe.mi.sɔ̃/	frémissez /fʁe.mi.se/	frémissent /fʁe.mis/
	imperfect	frémissais /fʁe.mi.sɛ/	frémissais /fʁe.mi.sɛ/	frémissait /fʁe.mi.sɛ/	frémissions /fʁe.mi.sjɔ̃/	frémissiez /fʁe.mi.sje/	frémissaient /fʁe.mi.sɛ/
	past historic2	frémis /fʁe.mi/	frémis /fʁe.mi/	frémit /fʁe.mi/	frémîmes /fʁe.mim/	frémîtes /fʁe.mit/	frémirent /fʁe.miʁ/
	future	frémirai /fʁe.mi.ʁe/	frémiras /fʁe.mi.ʁa/	frémira /fʁe.mi.ʁa/	frémirons /fʁe.mi.ʁɔ̃/	frémirez /fʁe.mi.ʁe/	frémiront /fʁe.mi.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	frémirais /fʁe.mi.ʁɛ/	frémirais /fʁe.mi.ʁɛ/	frémirait /fʁe.mi.ʁɛ/	frémirions /fʁe.mi.ʁjɔ̃/	frémiriez /fʁe.mi.ʁje/	frémiraient /fʁe.mi.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	frémisse /fʁe.mis/	frémisses /fʁe.mis/	frémisse /fʁe.mis/	frémissions /fʁe.mi.sjɔ̃/	frémissiez /fʁe.mi.sje/	frémissent /fʁe.mis/
	imperfect2	frémisse /fʁe.mis/	frémisses /fʁe.mis/	frémît /fʁe.mi/	frémissions /fʁe.mi.sjɔ̃/	frémissiez /fʁe.mi.sje/	frémissent /fʁe.mis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	frémis /fʁe.mi/	—	frémissons /fʁe.mi.sɔ̃/	frémissez /fʁe.mi.se/	—
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

• frémissement

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• frimer