rédimer

See also: redimer

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French redimer, borrowed from Latin redimō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁe.di.me/

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Verb

rédimer

1. (chiefly law) to pay, chiefly compensation, etc.

Inflection

Conjugation of rédimer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	rédimer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	rédimant /ʁe.di.mɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		rédimé /ʁe.di.me/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	rédime /ʁe.dim/	rédimes /ʁe.dim/	rédime /ʁe.dim/	rédimons /ʁe.di.mɔ̃/	rédimez /ʁe.di.me/	rédiment /ʁe.dim/
	imperfect	rédimais /ʁe.di.mɛ/	rédimais /ʁe.di.mɛ/	rédimait /ʁe.di.mɛ/	rédimions /ʁe.di.mjɔ̃/	rédimiez /ʁe.di.mje/	rédimaient /ʁe.di.mɛ/
	past historic2	rédimai /ʁe.di.me/	rédimas /ʁe.di.ma/	rédima /ʁe.di.ma/	rédimâmes /ʁe.di.mam/	rédimâtes /ʁe.di.mat/	rédimèrent /ʁe.di.mɛʁ/
	future	rédimerai /ʁe.dim.ʁe/	rédimeras /ʁe.dim.ʁa/	rédimera /ʁe.dim.ʁa/	rédimerons /ʁe.dim.ʁɔ̃/	rédimerez /ʁe.dim.ʁe/	rédimeront /ʁe.dim.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	rédimerais /ʁe.dim.ʁɛ/	rédimerais /ʁe.dim.ʁɛ/	rédimerait /ʁe.dim.ʁɛ/	rédimerions /ʁe.di.mə.ʁjɔ̃/	rédimeriez /ʁe.di.mə.ʁje/	rédimeraient /ʁe.dim.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	rédime /ʁe.dim/	rédimes /ʁe.dim/	rédime /ʁe.dim/	rédimions /ʁe.di.mjɔ̃/	rédimiez /ʁe.di.mje/	rédiment /ʁe.dim/
	imperfect2	rédimasse /ʁe.di.mas/	rédimasses /ʁe.di.mas/	rédimât /ʁe.di.ma/	rédimassions /ʁe.di.ma.sjɔ̃/	rédimassiez /ʁe.di.ma.sje/	rédimassent /ʁe.di.mas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	rédime /ʁe.dim/	—	rédimons /ʁe.di.mɔ̃/	rédimez /ʁe.di.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).

Related terms

• rédemption
• rédempteur

Further reading

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