Borrowed from Latin praemūniō (infinitive praemūnīre).
prémunir
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-.
| 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 | – | – | – | ||||
| 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:
(Christopher Kendris , Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||