supprimer

French

Etymology

From Latin supprimere (“to suppress”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sy.pʁi.me/

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Verb

supprimer

1. to delete
2. to suppress
3. to remove, to take out

Conjugation

Conjugation of supprimer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	supprimer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	supprimant /sy.pʁi.mɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		supprimé /sy.pʁi.me/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	supprime /sy.pʁim/	supprimes /sy.pʁim/	supprime /sy.pʁim/	supprimons /sy.pʁi.mɔ̃/	supprimez /sy.pʁi.me/	suppriment /sy.pʁim/
	imperfect	supprimais /sy.pʁi.mɛ/	supprimais /sy.pʁi.mɛ/	supprimait /sy.pʁi.mɛ/	supprimions /sy.pʁi.mjɔ̃/	supprimiez /sy.pʁi.mje/	supprimaient /sy.pʁi.mɛ/
	past historic2	supprimai /sy.pʁi.me/	supprimas /sy.pʁi.ma/	supprima /sy.pʁi.ma/	supprimâmes /sy.pʁi.mam/	supprimâtes /sy.pʁi.mat/	supprimèrent /sy.pʁi.mɛʁ/
	future	supprimerai /sy.pʁim.ʁe/	supprimeras /sy.pʁim.ʁa/	supprimera /sy.pʁim.ʁa/	supprimerons /sy.pʁim.ʁɔ̃/	supprimerez /sy.pʁim.ʁe/	supprimeront /sy.pʁim.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	supprimerais /sy.pʁim.ʁɛ/	supprimerais /sy.pʁim.ʁɛ/	supprimerait /sy.pʁim.ʁɛ/	supprimerions /sy.pʁi.mə.ʁjɔ̃/	supprimeriez /sy.pʁi.mə.ʁje/	supprimeraient /sy.pʁim.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	supprime /sy.pʁim/	supprimes /sy.pʁim/	supprime /sy.pʁim/	supprimions /sy.pʁi.mjɔ̃/	supprimiez /sy.pʁi.mje/	suppriment /sy.pʁim/
	imperfect2	supprimasse /sy.pʁi.mas/	supprimasses /sy.pʁi.mas/	supprimât /sy.pʁi.ma/	supprimassions /sy.pʁi.ma.sjɔ̃/	supprimassiez /sy.pʁi.ma.sje/	supprimassent /sy.pʁi.mas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	supprime /sy.pʁim/	—	supprimons /sy.pʁi.mɔ̃/	supprimez /sy.pʁi.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

• supprimable

Related terms

• suppression

Further reading

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