imiter

Danish

Verb

imiter or imitér

1. imperative of imitere

French

Etymology

From Latin imitārī.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i.mi.te/

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Verb

imiter

1. to imitate

Conjugation

Conjugation of imiter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	imiter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	imitant /i.mi.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		imité /i.mi.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	imite /i.mit/	imites /i.mit/	imite /i.mit/	imitons /i.mi.tɔ̃/	imitez /i.mi.te/	imitent /i.mit/
	imperfect	imitais /i.mi.tɛ/	imitais /i.mi.tɛ/	imitait /i.mi.tɛ/	imitions /i.mi.tjɔ̃/	imitiez /i.mi.tje/	imitaient /i.mi.tɛ/
	past historic2	imitai /i.mi.te/	imitas /i.mi.ta/	imita /i.mi.ta/	imitâmes /i.mi.tam/	imitâtes /i.mi.tat/	imitèrent /i.mi.tɛʁ/
	future	imiterai /i.mi.tʁe/	imiteras /i.mi.tʁa/	imitera /i.mi.tʁa/	imiterons /i.mi.tʁɔ̃/	imiterez /i.mi.tʁe/	imiteront /i.mi.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	imiterais /i.mi.tʁɛ/	imiterais /i.mi.tʁɛ/	imiterait /i.mi.tʁɛ/	imiterions /i.mi.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	imiteriez /i.mi.tə.ʁje/	imiteraient /i.mi.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	imite /i.mit/	imites /i.mit/	imite /i.mit/	imitions /i.mi.tjɔ̃/	imitiez /i.mi.tje/	imitent /i.mit/
	imperfect2	imitasse /i.mi.tas/	imitasses /i.mi.tas/	imitât /i.mi.ta/	imitassions /i.mi.ta.sjɔ̃/	imitassiez /i.mi.ta.sje/	imitassent /i.mi.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	imite /i.mit/	—	imitons /i.mi.tɔ̃/	imitez /i.mi.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).

Related terms

• imitateur
• imitation

Further reading

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

Latin

Verb

imiter

1. first-person singular present active subjunctive of imitor

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

imiter

1. imperative of imitere