culminer
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Medieval Latin culmino, culminare, from Latin culmen.
Verb
culminer
- (intransitive) To culminate (to come to an end)
- Le film culmine sur son meurtre. - the film culminates in his murder
- to culminate; reach the highest point.
Conjugation
Conjugation of culminer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | culminer | avoir culminé | |||||
| gerund | en culminant | en ayant culminé | |||||
| present participle | culminant /kyl.mi.nɑ̃/ | ||||||
| past participle | culminé /kyl.mi.ne/ | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | culmine /kyl.min/ |
culmines /kyl.min/ |
culmine /kyl.min/ |
culminons /kyl.mi.nɔ̃/ |
culminez /kyl.mi.ne/ |
culminent /kyl.min/ |
| imperfect | culminais /kyl.mi.nɛ/ |
culminais /kyl.mi.nɛ/ |
culminait /kyl.mi.nɛ/ |
culminions /kyl.mi.njɔ̃/ |
culminiez /kyl.mi.nje/ |
culminaient /kyl.mi.nɛ/ | |
| past historic1 | culminai /kyl.mi.ne/ |
culminas /kyl.mi.na/ |
culmina /kyl.mi.na/ |
culminâmes /kyl.mi.nam/ |
culminâtes /kyl.mi.nat/ |
culminèrent /kyl.mi.nɛʁ/ | |
| future | culminerai /kyl.min.ʁe/ |
culmineras /kyl.min.ʁa/ |
culminera /kyl.min.ʁa/ |
culminerons /kyl.min.ʁɔ̃/ |
culminerez /kyl.min.ʁe/ |
culmineront /kyl.min.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | culminerais /kyl.min.ʁɛ/ |
culminerais /kyl.min.ʁɛ/ |
culminerait /kyl.min.ʁɛ/ |
culminerions /kyl.mi.nə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
culmineriez /kyl.mi.nə.ʁje/ |
culmineraient /kyl.min.ʁɛ/ | |
| 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 | culmine /kyl.min/ |
culmines /kyl.min/ |
culmine /kyl.min/ |
culminions /kyl.mi.njɔ̃/ |
culminiez /kyl.mi.nje/ |
culminent /kyl.min/ |
| imperfect1 | culminasse /kyl.mi.nas/ |
culminasses /kyl.mi.nas/ |
culminât /kyl.mi.na/ |
culminassions /kyl.mi.na.sjɔ̃/ |
culminassiez /kyl.mi.na.sje/ |
culminassent /kyl.mi.nas/ | |
| 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 | – | |
| — | culmine /kyl.min/ |
— | culminons /kyl.mi.nɔ̃/ |
culminez /kyl.mi.ne/ |
— | ||
| 1literary tenses | |||||||
Related terms
Further reading
- “culminer” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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