imminer

French

Etymology

Back-formation from imminent.

Pronunciation

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Verb

imminer

1. (rare, nonstandard) to be due to happen or occur soon; to be imminent

Conjugation

Conjugation of imminer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	imminer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	imminant /i.mi.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		imminé /i.mi.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	immine /i.min/	immines /i.min/	immine /i.min/	imminons /i.mi.nɔ̃/	imminez /i.mi.ne/	imminent /i.min/
	imperfect	imminais /i.mi.nɛ/	imminais /i.mi.nɛ/	imminait /i.mi.nɛ/	imminions /i.mi.njɔ̃/	imminiez /i.mi.nje/	imminaient /i.mi.nɛ/
	past historic2	imminai /i.mi.ne/	imminas /i.mi.na/	immina /i.mi.na/	imminâmes /i.mi.nam/	imminâtes /i.mi.nat/	imminèrent /i.mi.nɛʁ/
	future	imminerai /i.min.ʁe/	immineras /i.min.ʁa/	imminera /i.min.ʁa/	imminerons /i.min.ʁɔ̃/	imminerez /i.min.ʁe/	immineront /i.min.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	imminerais /i.min.ʁɛ/	imminerais /i.min.ʁɛ/	imminerait /i.min.ʁɛ/	imminerions /i.mi.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	immineriez /i.mi.nə.ʁje/	immineraient /i.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	immine /i.min/	immines /i.min/	immine /i.min/	imminions /i.mi.njɔ̃/	imminiez /i.mi.nje/	imminent /i.min/
	imperfect2	imminasse /i.mi.nas/	imminasses /i.mi.nas/	imminât /i.mi.na/	imminassions /i.mi.na.sjɔ̃/	imminassiez /i.mi.na.sje/	imminassent /i.mi.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	immine /i.min/	—	imminons /i.mi.nɔ̃/	imminez /i.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

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