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parsemer
parsemer
French
Verb
parsemer
- (transitive) to sprinkle, scatter, strew (de with)
- (transitive) to be scattered or strewn over
- Je regardait les astres qui parsemaient le ciel. I was watching the stars which were scattered across the sky.
Conjugation
This verb is conjugated mostly like the regular -er verbs (parler and chanter and so on), but the -e- /ə/ of the second-to-last syllable becomes -è- /ɛ/ when the next vowel is a silent or schwa -e-. For example, in the third-person singular present indicative, we have il parsème rather than *il parseme. Other verbs conjugated this way include lever and mener. Related but distinct conjugations include those of appeler and préférer.
Conjugation of parsemer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | parsemer | avoir parsemé | |||||
| gerund | en parsemant | en ayant parsemé | |||||
| present participle | parsemant /paʁ.sə.mɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | parsemé /paʁ.sə.me/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | parsème /paʁ.sɛm/ |
parsèmes /paʁ.sɛm/ |
parsème /paʁ.sɛm/ |
parsemons /paʁ.sə.mɔ̃/ |
parsemez /paʁ.sə.me/ |
parsèment /paʁ.sɛm/ |
| imperfect | parsemais /paʁ.sə.mɛ/ |
parsemais /paʁ.sə.mɛ/ |
parsemait /paʁ.sə.mɛ/ |
parsemions /paʁ.sə.mjɔ̃/ |
parsemiez /paʁ.sə.mje/ |
parsemaient /paʁ.sə.mɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | parsemai /paʁ.sə.me/ |
parsemas /paʁ.sə.ma/ |
parsema /paʁ.sə.ma/ |
parsemâmes /paʁ.sə.mam/ |
parsemâtes /paʁ.sə.mat/ |
parsemèrent /paʁ.sə.mɛʁ/ |
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| future | parsèmerai /paʁ.sɛm.ʁe/ |
parsèmeras /paʁ.sɛm.ʁa/ |
parsèmera /paʁ.sɛm.ʁa/ |
parsèmerons /paʁ.sɛm.ʁɔ̃/ |
parsèmerez /paʁ.sɛm.ʁe/ |
parsèmeront /paʁ.sɛm.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | parsèmerais /paʁ.sɛm.ʁɛ/ |
parsèmerais /paʁ.sɛm.ʁɛ/ |
parsèmerait /paʁ.sɛm.ʁɛ/ |
parsèmerions /paʁ.sɛ.mə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
parsèmeriez /paʁ.sɛ.mə.ʁje/ |
parsèmeraient /paʁ.sɛm.ʁɛ/ |
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| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior1 | Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | parsème /paʁ.sɛm/ |
parsèmes /paʁ.sɛm/ |
parsème /paʁ.sɛm/ |
parsemions /paʁ.sə.mjɔ̃/ |
parsemiez /paʁ.sə.mje/ |
parsèment /paʁ.sɛm/ |
| imperfect1 |
parsemasse /paʁ.sə.mas/ |
parsemasses /paʁ.sə.mas/ |
parsemât /paʁ.sə.ma/ |
parsemassions /paʁ.sə.ma.sjɔ̃/ |
parsemassiez /paʁ.sə.ma.sje/ |
parsemassent /paʁ.sə.mas/ |
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| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | parsème /paʁ.sɛm/ |
— | parsemons /paʁ.sə.mɔ̃/ |
parsemez /paʁ.sə.me/ |
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