fulminer

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fulmināre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fyl.mi.ne/

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Verb

fulminer

1. to fulminate

Conjugation

Conjugation of fulminer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	fulminer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	fulminant /fyl.mi.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		fulminé /fyl.mi.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	fulmine /fyl.min/	fulmines /fyl.min/	fulmine /fyl.min/	fulminons /fyl.mi.nɔ̃/	fulminez /fyl.mi.ne/	fulminent /fyl.min/
	imperfect	fulminais /fyl.mi.nɛ/	fulminais /fyl.mi.nɛ/	fulminait /fyl.mi.nɛ/	fulminions /fyl.mi.njɔ̃/	fulminiez /fyl.mi.nje/	fulminaient /fyl.mi.nɛ/
	past historic2	fulminai /fyl.mi.ne/	fulminas /fyl.mi.na/	fulmina /fyl.mi.na/	fulminâmes /fyl.mi.nam/	fulminâtes /fyl.mi.nat/	fulminèrent /fyl.mi.nɛʁ/
	future	fulminerai /fyl.min.ʁe/	fulmineras /fyl.min.ʁa/	fulminera /fyl.min.ʁa/	fulminerons /fyl.min.ʁɔ̃/	fulminerez /fyl.min.ʁe/	fulmineront /fyl.min.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	fulminerais /fyl.min.ʁɛ/	fulminerais /fyl.min.ʁɛ/	fulminerait /fyl.min.ʁɛ/	fulminerions /fyl.mi.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	fulmineriez /fyl.mi.nə.ʁje/	fulmineraient /fyl.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	fulmine /fyl.min/	fulmines /fyl.min/	fulmine /fyl.min/	fulminions /fyl.mi.njɔ̃/	fulminiez /fyl.mi.nje/	fulminent /fyl.min/
	imperfect2	fulminasse /fyl.mi.nas/	fulminasses /fyl.mi.nas/	fulminât /fyl.mi.na/	fulminassions /fyl.mi.na.sjɔ̃/	fulminassiez /fyl.mi.na.sje/	fulminassent /fyl.mi.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	fulmine /fyl.min/	—	fulminons /fyl.mi.nɔ̃/	fulminez /fyl.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

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

Latin

Verb

fulminer

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of fulminō