intimider

French

Etymology

From Medieval Latin intimidāre (“to make afraid”), from Latin in (“in”) + timidus (“afraid, timid”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.ti.mi.de/

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Verb

intimider

1. (transitive) to intimidate

Conjugation

Conjugation of intimider (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	intimider
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	intimidant /ɛ̃.ti.mi.dɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		intimidé /ɛ̃.ti.mi.de/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	intimide /ɛ̃.ti.mid/	intimides /ɛ̃.ti.mid/	intimide /ɛ̃.ti.mid/	intimidons /ɛ̃.ti.mi.dɔ̃/	intimidez /ɛ̃.ti.mi.de/	intimident /ɛ̃.ti.mid/
	imperfect	intimidais /ɛ̃.ti.mi.dɛ/	intimidais /ɛ̃.ti.mi.dɛ/	intimidait /ɛ̃.ti.mi.dɛ/	intimidions /ɛ̃.ti.mi.djɔ̃/	intimidiez /ɛ̃.ti.mi.dje/	intimidaient /ɛ̃.ti.mi.dɛ/
	past historic2	intimidai /ɛ̃.ti.mi.de/	intimidas /ɛ̃.ti.mi.da/	intimida /ɛ̃.ti.mi.da/	intimidâmes /ɛ̃.ti.mi.dam/	intimidâtes /ɛ̃.ti.mi.dat/	intimidèrent /ɛ̃.ti.mi.dɛʁ/
	future	intimiderai /ɛ̃.ti.mi.dʁe/	intimideras /ɛ̃.ti.mi.dʁa/	intimidera /ɛ̃.ti.mi.dʁa/	intimiderons /ɛ̃.ti.mi.dʁɔ̃/	intimiderez /ɛ̃.ti.mi.dʁe/	intimideront /ɛ̃.ti.mi.dʁɔ̃/
	conditional	intimiderais /ɛ̃.ti.mi.dʁɛ/	intimiderais /ɛ̃.ti.mi.dʁɛ/	intimiderait /ɛ̃.ti.mi.dʁɛ/	intimiderions /ɛ̃.ti.mi.də.ʁjɔ̃/	intimideriez /ɛ̃.ti.mi.də.ʁje/	intimideraient /ɛ̃.ti.mi.dʁɛ/
(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	intimide /ɛ̃.ti.mid/	intimides /ɛ̃.ti.mid/	intimide /ɛ̃.ti.mid/	intimidions /ɛ̃.ti.mi.djɔ̃/	intimidiez /ɛ̃.ti.mi.dje/	intimident /ɛ̃.ti.mid/
	imperfect2	intimidasse /ɛ̃.ti.mi.das/	intimidasses /ɛ̃.ti.mi.das/	intimidât /ɛ̃.ti.mi.da/	intimidassions /ɛ̃.ti.mi.da.sjɔ̃/	intimidassiez /ɛ̃.ti.mi.da.sje/	intimidassent /ɛ̃.ti.mi.das/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	intimide /ɛ̃.ti.mid/	—	intimidons /ɛ̃.ti.mi.dɔ̃/	intimidez /ɛ̃.ti.mi.de/	—
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

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