grimper

See also: grîmper

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French grimper, probably from a nasalisation of Middle French gripper, after Middle French ramper (“to crawl”) (see modern ramper), to which it is semantically related.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡʁɛ̃.pe/

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Verb

grimper

1. (intransitive) (climbing) to climb, climb up

Conjugation

Conjugation of grimper (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	grimper
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	grimpant /ɡʁɛ̃.pɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		grimpé /ɡʁɛ̃.pe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	grimpe /ɡʁɛ̃p/	grimpes /ɡʁɛ̃p/	grimpe /ɡʁɛ̃p/	grimpons /ɡʁɛ̃.pɔ̃/	grimpez /ɡʁɛ̃.pe/	grimpent /ɡʁɛ̃p/
	imperfect	grimpais /ɡʁɛ̃.pɛ/	grimpais /ɡʁɛ̃.pɛ/	grimpait /ɡʁɛ̃.pɛ/	grimpions /ɡʁɛ̃.pjɔ̃/	grimpiez /ɡʁɛ̃.pje/	grimpaient /ɡʁɛ̃.pɛ/
	past historic2	grimpai /ɡʁɛ̃.pe/	grimpas /ɡʁɛ̃.pa/	grimpa /ɡʁɛ̃.pa/	grimpâmes /ɡʁɛ̃.pam/	grimpâtes /ɡʁɛ̃.pat/	grimpèrent /ɡʁɛ̃.pɛʁ/
	future	grimperai /ɡʁɛ̃.pʁe/	grimperas /ɡʁɛ̃.pʁa/	grimpera /ɡʁɛ̃.pʁa/	grimperons /ɡʁɛ̃.pʁɔ̃/	grimperez /ɡʁɛ̃.pʁe/	grimperont /ɡʁɛ̃.pʁɔ̃/
	conditional	grimperais /ɡʁɛ̃.pʁɛ/	grimperais /ɡʁɛ̃.pʁɛ/	grimperait /ɡʁɛ̃.pʁɛ/	grimperions /ɡʁɛ̃.pə.ʁjɔ̃/	grimperiez /ɡʁɛ̃.pə.ʁje/	grimperaient /ɡʁɛ̃.pʁɛ/
(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	grimpe /ɡʁɛ̃p/	grimpes /ɡʁɛ̃p/	grimpe /ɡʁɛ̃p/	grimpions /ɡʁɛ̃.pjɔ̃/	grimpiez /ɡʁɛ̃.pje/	grimpent /ɡʁɛ̃p/
	imperfect2	grimpasse /ɡʁɛ̃.pas/	grimpasses /ɡʁɛ̃.pas/	grimpât /ɡʁɛ̃.pa/	grimpassions /ɡʁɛ̃.pa.sjɔ̃/	grimpassiez /ɡʁɛ̃.pa.sje/	grimpassent /ɡʁɛ̃.pas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	grimpe /ɡʁɛ̃p/	—	grimpons /ɡʁɛ̃.pɔ̃/	grimpez /ɡʁɛ̃.pe/	—
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

• grimper au plafond
• grimper au rideau
• grimper aux rideaux
• grimpeur

Further reading

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