périmer

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin perimere, perimō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pe.ʁi.me/

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Verb

périmer

1. (transitive) to make obsolete
2. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to become obsolete
3. (takes a reflexive pronoun, se périmer) to become outdated, to become out of fashion, to expire

Conjugation

Conjugation of périmer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	périmer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	périmant /pe.ʁi.mɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		périmé /pe.ʁi.me/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	périme /pe.ʁim/	périmes /pe.ʁim/	périme /pe.ʁim/	périmons /pe.ʁi.mɔ̃/	périmez /pe.ʁi.me/	périment /pe.ʁim/
	imperfect	périmais /pe.ʁi.mɛ/	périmais /pe.ʁi.mɛ/	périmait /pe.ʁi.mɛ/	périmions /pe.ʁi.mjɔ̃/	périmiez /pe.ʁi.mje/	périmaient /pe.ʁi.mɛ/
	past historic2	périmai /pe.ʁi.me/	périmas /pe.ʁi.ma/	périma /pe.ʁi.ma/	périmâmes /pe.ʁi.mam/	périmâtes /pe.ʁi.mat/	périmèrent /pe.ʁi.mɛʁ/
	future	périmerai /pe.ʁim.ʁe/	périmeras /pe.ʁim.ʁa/	périmera /pe.ʁim.ʁa/	périmerons /pe.ʁim.ʁɔ̃/	périmerez /pe.ʁim.ʁe/	périmeront /pe.ʁim.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	périmerais /pe.ʁim.ʁɛ/	périmerais /pe.ʁim.ʁɛ/	périmerait /pe.ʁim.ʁɛ/	périmerions /pe.ʁi.mə.ʁjɔ̃/	périmeriez /pe.ʁi.mə.ʁje/	périmeraient /pe.ʁim.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	périme /pe.ʁim/	périmes /pe.ʁim/	périme /pe.ʁim/	périmions /pe.ʁi.mjɔ̃/	périmiez /pe.ʁi.mje/	périment /pe.ʁim/
	imperfect2	périmasse /pe.ʁi.mas/	périmasses /pe.ʁi.mas/	périmât /pe.ʁi.ma/	périmassions /pe.ʁi.ma.sjɔ̃/	périmassiez /pe.ʁi.ma.sje/	périmassent /pe.ʁi.mas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	périme /pe.ʁim/	—	périmons /pe.ʁi.mɔ̃/	périmez /pe.ʁi.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).

Related terms

• péremption
• péremptoire

Further reading

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