brimer

See also: Brimer

French

Etymology

From dialectal brime, probably a blend of brume +‎ frimas.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bʁi.me/

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Verb

brimer

1. (transitive) to bully; to mistreat

Conjugation

Conjugation of brimer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	brimer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	brimant /bʁi.mɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		brimé /bʁi.me/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	brime /bʁim/	brimes /bʁim/	brime /bʁim/	brimons /bʁi.mɔ̃/	brimez /bʁi.me/	briment /bʁim/
	imperfect	brimais /bʁi.mɛ/	brimais /bʁi.mɛ/	brimait /bʁi.mɛ/	brimions /bʁi.mjɔ̃/	brimiez /bʁi.mje/	brimaient /bʁi.mɛ/
	past historic2	brimai /bʁi.me/	brimas /bʁi.ma/	brima /bʁi.ma/	brimâmes /bʁi.mam/	brimâtes /bʁi.mat/	brimèrent /bʁi.mɛʁ/
	future	brimerai /bʁim.ʁe/	brimeras /bʁim.ʁa/	brimera /bʁim.ʁa/	brimerons /bʁim.ʁɔ̃/	brimerez /bʁim.ʁe/	brimeront /bʁim.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	brimerais /bʁim.ʁɛ/	brimerais /bʁim.ʁɛ/	brimerait /bʁim.ʁɛ/	brimerions /bʁi.mə.ʁjɔ̃/	brimeriez /bʁi.mə.ʁje/	brimeraient /bʁim.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	brime /bʁim/	brimes /bʁim/	brime /bʁim/	brimions /bʁi.mjɔ̃/	brimiez /bʁi.mje/	briment /bʁim/
	imperfect2	brimasse /bʁi.mas/	brimasses /bʁi.mas/	brimât /bʁi.ma/	brimassions /bʁi.ma.sjɔ̃/	brimassiez /bʁi.ma.sje/	brimassent /bʁi.mas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	brime /bʁim/	—	brimons /bʁi.mɔ̃/	brimez /bʁi.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

• brimeur, brimeuse
• brimade

Further reading

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