consommer

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cōnsummāre, conflated with Latin cōnsumāre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.sɔ.me/

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Verb

consommer

1. to consume; to ingest

   à consommer avec modération ― consume in moderation

2. (literary, archaic) to consummate; to complete; to fulfil

   Synonyms: achever, accomplir

   • 1791, National Constituent Assembly, Constitution française, présentée au roi par l'Assemblée nationale, le 3 septembre 1791 [French constitution, presented to the King by the National Assembly on 3 September 1791], Dijon: Imprimerie de P. Causse, page 82:

     L’Assemblée nationale n’a plus rien à désirer en ce jour à jamais mémorable, où vous consommez dans son sein, par le plus solemnel engagement, l’acceptation de la royauté constitutionnelle.

     The National Assembly has nothing more to desire on this ever memorable day, on which you, in its midst, complete the acceptance of the constitutional kingship by the most solemn commitment.

Conjugation

Conjugation of consommer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	consommer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	consommant /kɔ̃.sɔ.mɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		consommé /kɔ̃.sɔ.me/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	consomme /kɔ̃.sɔm/	consommes /kɔ̃.sɔm/	consomme /kɔ̃.sɔm/	consommons /kɔ̃.sɔ.mɔ̃/	consommez /kɔ̃.sɔ.me/	consomment /kɔ̃.sɔm/
	imperfect	consommais /kɔ̃.sɔ.mɛ/	consommais /kɔ̃.sɔ.mɛ/	consommait /kɔ̃.sɔ.mɛ/	consommions /kɔ̃.sɔ.mjɔ̃/	consommiez /kɔ̃.sɔ.mje/	consommaient /kɔ̃.sɔ.mɛ/
	past historic2	consommai /kɔ̃.sɔ.me/	consommas /kɔ̃.sɔ.ma/	consomma /kɔ̃.sɔ.ma/	consommâmes /kɔ̃.sɔ.mam/	consommâtes /kɔ̃.sɔ.mat/	consommèrent /kɔ̃.sɔ.mɛʁ/
	future	consommerai /kɔ̃.sɔm.ʁe/	consommeras /kɔ̃.sɔm.ʁa/	consommera /kɔ̃.sɔm.ʁa/	consommerons /kɔ̃.sɔm.ʁɔ̃/	consommerez /kɔ̃.sɔm.ʁe/	consommeront /kɔ̃.sɔm.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	consommerais /kɔ̃.sɔm.ʁɛ/	consommerais /kɔ̃.sɔm.ʁɛ/	consommerait /kɔ̃.sɔm.ʁɛ/	consommerions /kɔ̃.sɔ.mə.ʁjɔ̃/	consommeriez /kɔ̃.sɔ.mə.ʁje/	consommeraient /kɔ̃.sɔm.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	consomme /kɔ̃.sɔm/	consommes /kɔ̃.sɔm/	consomme /kɔ̃.sɔm/	consommions /kɔ̃.sɔ.mjɔ̃/	consommiez /kɔ̃.sɔ.mje/	consomment /kɔ̃.sɔm/
	imperfect2	consommasse /kɔ̃.sɔ.mas/	consommasses /kɔ̃.sɔ.mas/	consommât /kɔ̃.sɔ.ma/	consommassions /kɔ̃.sɔ.ma.sjɔ̃/	consommassiez /kɔ̃.sɔ.ma.sje/	consommassent /kɔ̃.sɔ.mas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	consomme /kɔ̃.sɔm/	—	consommons /kɔ̃.sɔ.mɔ̃/	consommez /kɔ̃.sɔ.me/	—
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).

Derived terms

• consommateur
• consommation

Further reading

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

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