excommunier

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin excommunicāre, with influence of French communier. Displaced the inherited Old French escomengier.

Pronunciation

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Verb

excommunier

1. to excommunicate

   Synonym: anathématiser

Conjugation

Conjugation of excommunier (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	excommunier
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	excommuniant /ɛk.skɔ.my.njɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		excommunié /ɛk.skɔ.my.nje/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	excommunie /ɛk.skɔ.my.ni/	excommunies /ɛk.skɔ.my.ni/	excommunie /ɛk.skɔ.my.ni/	excommunions /ɛk.skɔ.my.njɔ̃/	excommuniez /ɛk.skɔ.my.nje/	excommunient /ɛk.skɔ.my.ni/
	imperfect	excommuniais /ɛk.skɔ.my.njɛ/	excommuniais /ɛk.skɔ.my.njɛ/	excommuniait /ɛk.skɔ.my.njɛ/	excommuniions /ɛk.skɔ.my.ni.jɔ̃/	excommuniiez /ɛk.skɔ.my.ni.je/	excommuniaient /ɛk.skɔ.my.njɛ/
	past historic2	excommuniai /ɛk.skɔ.my.nje/	excommunias /ɛk.skɔ.my.nja/	excommunia /ɛk.skɔ.my.nja/	excommuniâmes /ɛk.skɔ.my.njam/	excommuniâtes /ɛk.skɔ.my.njat/	excommunièrent /ɛk.skɔ.my.njɛʁ/
	future	excommunierai /ɛk.skɔ.my.ni.ʁe/	excommunieras /ɛk.skɔ.my.ni.ʁa/	excommuniera /ɛk.skɔ.my.ni.ʁa/	excommunierons /ɛk.skɔ.my.ni.ʁɔ̃/	excommunierez /ɛk.skɔ.my.ni.ʁe/	excommunieront /ɛk.skɔ.my.ni.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	excommunierais /ɛk.skɔ.my.ni.ʁɛ/	excommunierais /ɛk.skɔ.my.ni.ʁɛ/	excommunierait /ɛk.skɔ.my.ni.ʁɛ/	excommunierions /ɛk.skɔ.my.ni.ʁjɔ̃/	excommunieriez /ɛk.skɔ.my.ni.ʁje/	excommunieraient /ɛk.skɔ.my.ni.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	excommunie /ɛk.skɔ.my.ni/	excommunies /ɛk.skɔ.my.ni/	excommunie /ɛk.skɔ.my.ni/	excommuniions /ɛk.skɔ.my.ni.jɔ̃/	excommuniiez /ɛk.skɔ.my.ni.je/	excommunient /ɛk.skɔ.my.ni/
	imperfect2	excommuniasse /ɛk.skɔ.my.njas/	excommuniasses /ɛk.skɔ.my.njas/	excommuniât /ɛk.skɔ.my.nja/	excommuniassions /ɛk.skɔ.my.nja.sjɔ̃/	excommuniassiez /ɛk.skɔ.my.nja.sje/	excommuniassent /ɛk.skɔ.my.njas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	excommunie /ɛk.skɔ.my.ni/	—	excommunions /ɛk.skɔ.my.njɔ̃/	excommuniez /ɛk.skɔ.my.nje/	—
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

• excommunication

Further reading

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