æstimer

See also: aestimer

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛs.ti.me/

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Verb

æstimer

1. Obsolete form of estimer.
   • 1695, Denis Papin, Recueil de Diverses Pièces Touchant Quelques Nouvelles Machines, page 101:

     […] & la conſervation d’une meſme quantité de mouvement ou de force dans le monde ſont des doctrines qui peuvent fort bien ſ’accorder avec la maniere ordinaire d’æſtimer les forces mouvantes.

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Conjugation

Conjugation of æstimer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	æstimer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	æstimant /ɛs.ti.mɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		æstimé /ɛs.ti.me/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	æstime /ɛs.tim/	æstimes /ɛs.tim/	æstime /ɛs.tim/	æstimons /ɛs.ti.mɔ̃/	æstimez /ɛs.ti.me/	æstiment /ɛs.tim/
	imperfect	æstimais /ɛs.ti.mɛ/	æstimais /ɛs.ti.mɛ/	æstimait /ɛs.ti.mɛ/	æstimions /ɛs.ti.mjɔ̃/	æstimiez /ɛs.ti.mje/	æstimaient /ɛs.ti.mɛ/
	past historic2	æstimai /ɛs.ti.me/	æstimas /ɛs.ti.ma/	æstima /ɛs.ti.ma/	æstimâmes /ɛs.ti.mam/	æstimâtes /ɛs.ti.mat/	æstimèrent /ɛs.ti.mɛʁ/
	future	æstimerai /ɛs.tim.ʁe/	æstimeras /ɛs.tim.ʁa/	æstimera /ɛs.tim.ʁa/	æstimerons /ɛs.tim.ʁɔ̃/	æstimerez /ɛs.tim.ʁe/	æstimeront /ɛs.tim.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	æstimerais /ɛs.tim.ʁɛ/	æstimerais /ɛs.tim.ʁɛ/	æstimerait /ɛs.tim.ʁɛ/	æstimerions /ɛs.ti.mə.ʁjɔ̃/	æstimeriez /ɛs.ti.mə.ʁje/	æstimeraient /ɛs.tim.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	æstime /ɛs.tim/	æstimes /ɛs.tim/	æstime /ɛs.tim/	æstimions /ɛs.ti.mjɔ̃/	æstimiez /ɛs.ti.mje/	æstiment /ɛs.tim/
	imperfect2	æstimasse /ɛs.ti.mas/	æstimasses /ɛs.ti.mas/	æstimât /ɛs.ti.ma/	æstimassions /ɛs.ti.ma.sjɔ̃/	æstimassiez /ɛs.ti.ma.sje/	æstimassent /ɛs.ti.mas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	æstime /ɛs.tim/	—	æstimons /ɛs.ti.mɔ̃/	æstimez /ɛs.ti.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).