transhumer

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish trashumar, derived Latin trāns (“across, beyond”) +‎ humus (“ground”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʁɑ̃.zy.me/

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Verb

transhumer

1. (intransitive) to move livestock according to transhumance
2. (transitive) to move according to transhumance

Conjugation

Conjugation of transhumer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	transhumer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	transhumant /tʁɑ̃.zy.mɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		transhumé /tʁɑ̃.zy.me/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	transhume /tʁɑ̃.zym/	transhumes /tʁɑ̃.zym/	transhume /tʁɑ̃.zym/	transhumons /tʁɑ̃.zy.mɔ̃/	transhumez /tʁɑ̃.zy.me/	transhument /tʁɑ̃.zym/
	imperfect	transhumais /tʁɑ̃.zy.mɛ/	transhumais /tʁɑ̃.zy.mɛ/	transhumait /tʁɑ̃.zy.mɛ/	transhumions /tʁɑ̃.zy.mjɔ̃/	transhumiez /tʁɑ̃.zy.mje/	transhumaient /tʁɑ̃.zy.mɛ/
	past historic2	transhumai /tʁɑ̃.zy.me/	transhumas /tʁɑ̃.zy.ma/	transhuma /tʁɑ̃.zy.ma/	transhumâmes /tʁɑ̃.zy.mam/	transhumâtes /tʁɑ̃.zy.mat/	transhumèrent /tʁɑ̃.zy.mɛʁ/
	future	transhumerai /tʁɑ̃.zym.ʁe/	transhumeras /tʁɑ̃.zym.ʁa/	transhumera /tʁɑ̃.zym.ʁa/	transhumerons /tʁɑ̃.zym.ʁɔ̃/	transhumerez /tʁɑ̃.zym.ʁe/	transhumeront /tʁɑ̃.zym.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	transhumerais /tʁɑ̃.zym.ʁɛ/	transhumerais /tʁɑ̃.zym.ʁɛ/	transhumerait /tʁɑ̃.zym.ʁɛ/	transhumerions /tʁɑ̃.zy.mə.ʁjɔ̃/	transhumeriez /tʁɑ̃.zy.mə.ʁje/	transhumeraient /tʁɑ̃.zym.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	transhume /tʁɑ̃.zym/	transhumes /tʁɑ̃.zym/	transhume /tʁɑ̃.zym/	transhumions /tʁɑ̃.zy.mjɔ̃/	transhumiez /tʁɑ̃.zy.mje/	transhument /tʁɑ̃.zym/
	imperfect2	transhumasse /tʁɑ̃.zy.mas/	transhumasses /tʁɑ̃.zy.mas/	transhumât /tʁɑ̃.zy.ma/	transhumassions /tʁɑ̃.zy.ma.sjɔ̃/	transhumassiez /tʁɑ̃.zy.ma.sje/	transhumassent /tʁɑ̃.zy.mas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	transhume /tʁɑ̃.zym/	—	transhumons /tʁɑ̃.zy.mɔ̃/	transhumez /tʁɑ̃.zy.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

• transhumance

Descendants

• → Italian: transumare

Further reading

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