émincer

French

Etymology

From é- +‎ mincer.

Pronunciation

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Verb

émincer (transitive)

1. to cut (meat etc) into thin slices

Conjugation

This verb is part of a group of -er verbs for which 'c' is softened to a 'ç' before the vowels 'a' and 'o'.

Conjugation of émincer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	émincer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	éminçant /e.mɛ̃.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		émincé /e.mɛ̃.se/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	émince /e.mɛ̃s/	éminces /e.mɛ̃s/	émince /e.mɛ̃s/	éminçons /e.mɛ̃.sɔ̃/	émincez /e.mɛ̃.se/	émincent /e.mɛ̃s/
	imperfect	éminçais /e.mɛ̃.sɛ/	éminçais /e.mɛ̃.sɛ/	éminçait /e.mɛ̃.sɛ/	émincions /e.mɛ̃.sjɔ̃/	éminciez /e.mɛ̃.sje/	éminçaient /e.mɛ̃.sɛ/
	past historic2	éminçai /e.mɛ̃.se/	éminças /e.mɛ̃.sa/	éminça /e.mɛ̃.sa/	éminçâmes /e.mɛ̃.sam/	éminçâtes /e.mɛ̃.sat/	émincèrent /e.mɛ̃.sɛʁ/
	future	émincerai /e.mɛ̃.sʁe/	éminceras /e.mɛ̃.sʁa/	émincera /e.mɛ̃.sʁa/	émincerons /e.mɛ̃.sʁɔ̃/	émincerez /e.mɛ̃.sʁe/	éminceront /e.mɛ̃.sʁɔ̃/
	conditional	émincerais /e.mɛ̃.sʁɛ/	émincerais /e.mɛ̃.sʁɛ/	émincerait /e.mɛ̃.sʁɛ/	émincerions /e.mɛ̃.sə.ʁjɔ̃/	éminceriez /e.mɛ̃.sə.ʁje/	éminceraient /e.mɛ̃.sʁɛ/
(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	émince /e.mɛ̃s/	éminces /e.mɛ̃s/	émince /e.mɛ̃s/	émincions /e.mɛ̃.sjɔ̃/	éminciez /e.mɛ̃.sje/	émincent /e.mɛ̃s/
	imperfect2	éminçasse /e.mɛ̃.sas/	éminçasses /e.mɛ̃.sas/	éminçât /e.mɛ̃.sa/	éminçassions /e.mɛ̃.sa.sjɔ̃/	éminçassiez /e.mɛ̃.sa.sje/	éminçassent /e.mɛ̃.sas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	émince /e.mɛ̃s/	—	éminçons /e.mɛ̃.sɔ̃/	émincez /e.mɛ̃.se/	—
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

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