acheminer

French

Etymology

From a- +‎ chemin +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aʃ.mi.ne/

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Verb

acheminer

1. (transitive) to transport; send (off)
2. (reflexive) to head (towards); head for; make one's way (to)

Conjugation

Conjugation of acheminer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	acheminer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	acheminant /aʃ.mi.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		acheminé /aʃ.mi.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	achemine /aʃ.min/	achemines /aʃ.min/	achemine /aʃ.min/	acheminons /aʃ.mi.nɔ̃/	acheminez /aʃ.mi.ne/	acheminent /aʃ.min/
	imperfect	acheminais /aʃ.mi.nɛ/	acheminais /aʃ.mi.nɛ/	acheminait /aʃ.mi.nɛ/	acheminions /aʃ.mi.njɔ̃/	acheminiez /aʃ.mi.nje/	acheminaient /aʃ.mi.nɛ/
	past historic2	acheminai /aʃ.mi.ne/	acheminas /aʃ.mi.na/	achemina /aʃ.mi.na/	acheminâmes /aʃ.mi.nam/	acheminâtes /aʃ.mi.nat/	acheminèrent /aʃ.mi.nɛʁ/
	future	acheminerai /aʃ.min.ʁe/	achemineras /aʃ.min.ʁa/	acheminera /aʃ.min.ʁa/	acheminerons /aʃ.min.ʁɔ̃/	acheminerez /aʃ.min.ʁe/	achemineront /aʃ.min.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	acheminerais /aʃ.min.ʁɛ/	acheminerais /aʃ.min.ʁɛ/	acheminerait /aʃ.min.ʁɛ/	acheminerions /aʃ.mi.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	achemineriez /aʃ.mi.nə.ʁje/	achemineraient /aʃ.min.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	achemine /aʃ.min/	achemines /aʃ.min/	achemine /aʃ.min/	acheminions /aʃ.mi.njɔ̃/	acheminiez /aʃ.mi.nje/	acheminent /aʃ.min/
	imperfect2	acheminasse /aʃ.mi.nas/	acheminasses /aʃ.mi.nas/	acheminât /aʃ.mi.na/	acheminassions /aʃ.mi.na.sjɔ̃/	acheminassiez /aʃ.mi.na.sje/	acheminassent /aʃ.mi.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	achemine /aʃ.min/	—	acheminons /aʃ.mi.nɔ̃/	acheminez /aʃ.mi.ne/	—
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).

Further reading

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