transmigrer

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin trānsmigrāre, the present infinitive form of trānsmigrō (“to transmigrate”), from trāns + migrō. By surface analysis, trans- +‎ migrer.

Pronunciation

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Verb

transmigrer

1. (intransitive) to transmigrate (migrate to another country)
2. (intransitive, of the soul) to transmigrate (pass into another body after death)

Conjugation

Conjugation of transmigrer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	transmigrer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	transmigrant /tʁɑ̃s.mi.ɡʁɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		transmigré /tʁɑ̃s.mi.ɡʁe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	transmigre /tʁɑ̃s.miɡʁ/	transmigres /tʁɑ̃s.miɡʁ/	transmigre /tʁɑ̃s.miɡʁ/	transmigrons /tʁɑ̃s.mi.ɡʁɔ̃/	transmigrez /tʁɑ̃s.mi.ɡʁe/	transmigrent /tʁɑ̃s.miɡʁ/
	imperfect	transmigrais /tʁɑ̃s.mi.ɡʁɛ/	transmigrais /tʁɑ̃s.mi.ɡʁɛ/	transmigrait /tʁɑ̃s.mi.ɡʁɛ/	transmigrions /tʁɑ̃s.mi.ɡʁi.jɔ̃/	transmigriez /tʁɑ̃s.mi.ɡʁi.je/	transmigraient /tʁɑ̃s.mi.ɡʁɛ/
	past historic2	transmigrai /tʁɑ̃s.mi.ɡʁe/	transmigras /tʁɑ̃s.mi.ɡʁa/	transmigra /tʁɑ̃s.mi.ɡʁa/	transmigrâmes /tʁɑ̃s.mi.ɡʁam/	transmigrâtes /tʁɑ̃s.mi.ɡʁat/	transmigrèrent /tʁɑ̃s.mi.ɡʁɛʁ/
	future	transmigrerai /tʁɑ̃s.mi.ɡʁə.ʁe/	transmigreras /tʁɑ̃s.mi.ɡʁə.ʁa/	transmigrera /tʁɑ̃s.mi.ɡʁə.ʁa/	transmigrerons /tʁɑ̃s.mi.ɡʁə.ʁɔ̃/	transmigrerez /tʁɑ̃s.mi.ɡʁə.ʁe/	transmigreront /tʁɑ̃s.mi.ɡʁə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	transmigrerais /tʁɑ̃s.mi.ɡʁə.ʁɛ/	transmigrerais /tʁɑ̃s.mi.ɡʁə.ʁɛ/	transmigrerait /tʁɑ̃s.mi.ɡʁə.ʁɛ/	transmigrerions /tʁɑ̃s.mi.ɡʁə.ʁjɔ̃/	transmigreriez /tʁɑ̃s.mi.ɡʁə.ʁje/	transmigreraient /tʁɑ̃s.mi.ɡʁə.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	transmigre /tʁɑ̃s.miɡʁ/	transmigres /tʁɑ̃s.miɡʁ/	transmigre /tʁɑ̃s.miɡʁ/	transmigrions /tʁɑ̃s.mi.ɡʁi.jɔ̃/	transmigriez /tʁɑ̃s.mi.ɡʁi.je/	transmigrent /tʁɑ̃s.miɡʁ/
	imperfect2	transmigrasse /tʁɑ̃s.mi.ɡʁas/	transmigrasses /tʁɑ̃s.mi.ɡʁas/	transmigrât /tʁɑ̃s.mi.ɡʁa/	transmigrassions /tʁɑ̃s.mi.ɡʁa.sjɔ̃/	transmigrassiez /tʁɑ̃s.mi.ɡʁa.sje/	transmigrassent /tʁɑ̃s.mi.ɡʁas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	transmigre /tʁɑ̃s.miɡʁ/	—	transmigrons /tʁɑ̃s.mi.ɡʁɔ̃/	transmigrez /tʁɑ̃s.mi.ɡʁe/	—
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

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

Latin

Verb

trānsmigrer

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of trānsmigrō