abominer

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.bɔ.mi.ne/

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Verb

abominer

1. (literary) to hold in abomination; to detest, abhor, execrate

Conjugation

Conjugation of abominer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	abominer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	abominant /a.bɔ.mi.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		abominé /a.bɔ.mi.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	abomine /a.bɔ.min/	abomines /a.bɔ.min/	abomine /a.bɔ.min/	abominons /a.bɔ.mi.nɔ̃/	abominez /a.bɔ.mi.ne/	abominent /a.bɔ.min/
	imperfect	abominais /a.bɔ.mi.nɛ/	abominais /a.bɔ.mi.nɛ/	abominait /a.bɔ.mi.nɛ/	abominions /a.bɔ.mi.njɔ̃/	abominiez /a.bɔ.mi.nje/	abominaient /a.bɔ.mi.nɛ/
	past historic2	abominai /a.bɔ.mi.ne/	abominas /a.bɔ.mi.na/	abomina /a.bɔ.mi.na/	abominâmes /a.bɔ.mi.nam/	abominâtes /a.bɔ.mi.nat/	abominèrent /a.bɔ.mi.nɛʁ/
	future	abominerai /a.bɔ.min.ʁe/	abomineras /a.bɔ.min.ʁa/	abominera /a.bɔ.min.ʁa/	abominerons /a.bɔ.min.ʁɔ̃/	abominerez /a.bɔ.min.ʁe/	abomineront /a.bɔ.min.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	abominerais /a.bɔ.min.ʁɛ/	abominerais /a.bɔ.min.ʁɛ/	abominerait /a.bɔ.min.ʁɛ/	abominerions /a.bɔ.mi.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	abomineriez /a.bɔ.mi.nə.ʁje/	abomineraient /a.bɔ.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	abomine /a.bɔ.min/	abomines /a.bɔ.min/	abomine /a.bɔ.min/	abominions /a.bɔ.mi.njɔ̃/	abominiez /a.bɔ.mi.nje/	abominent /a.bɔ.min/
	imperfect2	abominasse /a.bɔ.mi.nas/	abominasses /a.bɔ.mi.nas/	abominât /a.bɔ.mi.na/	abominassions /a.bɔ.mi.na.sjɔ̃/	abominassiez /a.bɔ.mi.na.sje/	abominassent /a.bɔ.mi.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	abomine /a.bɔ.min/	—	abominons /a.bɔ.mi.nɔ̃/	abominez /a.bɔ.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

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

Latin

Verb

abōminer

1. first-person singular present active subjunctive of abōminor