Inherited from Old French ramifier, borrowed from Medieval Latin ramificāre, from Latin ramus (“branch”) + facio (“to do”).
ramifier
infinitive | simple | ramifier | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | ramifiant /ʁa.mi.fjɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | ramifié /ʁa.mi.fje/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | ramifie /ʁa.mi.fi/ |
ramifies /ʁa.mi.fi/ |
ramifie /ʁa.mi.fi/ |
ramifions /ʁa.mi.fjɔ̃/ |
ramifiez /ʁa.mi.fje/ |
ramifient /ʁa.mi.fi/ |
imperfect | ramifiais /ʁa.mi.fjɛ/ |
ramifiais /ʁa.mi.fjɛ/ |
ramifiait /ʁa.mi.fjɛ/ |
ramifiions /ʁa.mi.fi.jɔ̃/ |
ramifiiez /ʁa.mi.fi.je/ |
ramifiaient /ʁa.mi.fjɛ/ | |
past historic2 | ramifiai /ʁa.mi.fje/ |
ramifias /ʁa.mi.fja/ |
ramifia /ʁa.mi.fja/ |
ramifiâmes /ʁa.mi.fjam/ |
ramifiâtes /ʁa.mi.fjat/ |
ramifièrent /ʁa.mi.fjɛʁ/ | |
future | ramifierai /ʁa.mi.fi.ʁe/ |
ramifieras /ʁa.mi.fi.ʁa/ |
ramifiera /ʁa.mi.fi.ʁa/ |
ramifierons /ʁa.mi.fi.ʁɔ̃/ |
ramifierez /ʁa.mi.fi.ʁe/ |
ramifieront /ʁa.mi.fi.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | ramifierais /ʁa.mi.fi.ʁɛ/ |
ramifierais /ʁa.mi.fi.ʁɛ/ |
ramifierait /ʁa.mi.fi.ʁɛ/ |
ramifierions /ʁa.mi.fi.ʁjɔ̃/ |
ramifieriez /ʁa.mi.fi.ʁje/ |
ramifieraient /ʁa.mi.fi.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 | ramifie /ʁa.mi.fi/ |
ramifies /ʁa.mi.fi/ |
ramifie /ʁa.mi.fi/ |
ramifiions /ʁa.mi.fi.jɔ̃/ |
ramifiiez /ʁa.mi.fi.je/ |
ramifient /ʁa.mi.fi/ |
imperfect2 | ramifiasse /ʁa.mi.fjas/ |
ramifiasses /ʁa.mi.fjas/ |
ramifiât /ʁa.mi.fja/ |
ramifiassions /ʁa.mi.fja.sjɔ̃/ |
ramifiassiez /ʁa.mi.fja.sje/ |
ramifiassent /ʁa.mi.fjas/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | ramifie /ʁa.mi.fi/ |
— | ramifions /ʁa.mi.fjɔ̃/ |
ramifiez /ʁa.mi.fje/ |
— | |
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). |