prémunir

See also: premunir

French

Alternative forms

• præmunir (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin praemūniō (infinitive praemūnīre).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pʁe.my.niʁ/

• Audio:

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Verb

prémunir

1. (transitive, literary) to warn
2. (transitive, literary) to protect [with contre ‘against’]
3. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to protect oneself (from/against), guard (against) [with contre]

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 prémunir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	prémunir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	prémunissant /pʁe.my.ni.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		prémuni /pʁe.my.ni/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	prémunis /pʁe.my.ni/	prémunis /pʁe.my.ni/	prémunit /pʁe.my.ni/	prémunissons /pʁe.my.ni.sɔ̃/	prémunissez /pʁe.my.ni.se/	prémunissent /pʁe.my.nis/
	imperfect	prémunissais /pʁe.my.ni.sɛ/	prémunissais /pʁe.my.ni.sɛ/	prémunissait /pʁe.my.ni.sɛ/	prémunissions /pʁe.my.ni.sjɔ̃/	prémunissiez /pʁe.my.ni.sje/	prémunissaient /pʁe.my.ni.sɛ/
	past historic2	prémunis /pʁe.my.ni/	prémunis /pʁe.my.ni/	prémunit /pʁe.my.ni/	prémunîmes /pʁe.my.nim/	prémunîtes /pʁe.my.nit/	prémunirent /pʁe.my.niʁ/
	future	prémunirai /pʁe.my.ni.ʁe/	prémuniras /pʁe.my.ni.ʁa/	prémunira /pʁe.my.ni.ʁa/	prémunirons /pʁe.my.ni.ʁɔ̃/	prémunirez /pʁe.my.ni.ʁe/	prémuniront /pʁe.my.ni.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	prémunirais /pʁe.my.ni.ʁɛ/	prémunirais /pʁe.my.ni.ʁɛ/	prémunirait /pʁe.my.ni.ʁɛ/	prémunirions /pʁe.my.ni.ʁjɔ̃/	prémuniriez /pʁe.my.ni.ʁje/	prémuniraient /pʁe.my.ni.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	prémunisse /pʁe.my.nis/	prémunisses /pʁe.my.nis/	prémunisse /pʁe.my.nis/	prémunissions /pʁe.my.ni.sjɔ̃/	prémunissiez /pʁe.my.ni.sje/	prémunissent /pʁe.my.nis/
	imperfect2	prémunisse /pʁe.my.nis/	prémunisses /pʁe.my.nis/	prémunît /pʁe.my.ni/	prémunissions /pʁe.my.ni.sjɔ̃/	prémunissiez /pʁe.my.ni.sje/	prémunissent /pʁe.my.nis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	prémunis /pʁe.my.ni/	—	prémunissons /pʁe.my.ni.sɔ̃/	prémunissez /pʁe.my.ni.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).

Further reading

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