bitumer

French

Etymology

From bitume (“bitumen”) +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bi.ty.me/

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Verb

bitumer

1. (transitive) to asphalt

Conjugation

Conjugation of bitumer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	bitumer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	bitumant /bi.ty.mɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		bitumé /bi.ty.me/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	bitume /bi.tym/	bitumes /bi.tym/	bitume /bi.tym/	bitumons /bi.ty.mɔ̃/	bitumez /bi.ty.me/	bitument /bi.tym/
	imperfect	bitumais /bi.ty.mɛ/	bitumais /bi.ty.mɛ/	bitumait /bi.ty.mɛ/	bitumions /bi.ty.mjɔ̃/	bitumiez /bi.ty.mje/	bitumaient /bi.ty.mɛ/
	past historic2	bitumai /bi.ty.me/	bitumas /bi.ty.ma/	bituma /bi.ty.ma/	bitumâmes /bi.ty.mam/	bitumâtes /bi.ty.mat/	bitumèrent /bi.ty.mɛʁ/
	future	bitumerai /bi.tym.ʁe/	bitumeras /bi.tym.ʁa/	bitumera /bi.tym.ʁa/	bitumerons /bi.tym.ʁɔ̃/	bitumerez /bi.tym.ʁe/	bitumeront /bi.tym.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	bitumerais /bi.tym.ʁɛ/	bitumerais /bi.tym.ʁɛ/	bitumerait /bi.tym.ʁɛ/	bitumerions /bi.ty.mə.ʁjɔ̃/	bitumeriez /bi.ty.mə.ʁje/	bitumeraient /bi.tym.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	bitume /bi.tym/	bitumes /bi.tym/	bitume /bi.tym/	bitumions /bi.ty.mjɔ̃/	bitumiez /bi.ty.mje/	bitument /bi.tym/
	imperfect2	bitumasse /bi.ty.mas/	bitumasses /bi.ty.mas/	bitumât /bi.ty.ma/	bitumassions /bi.ty.ma.sjɔ̃/	bitumassiez /bi.ty.ma.sje/	bitumassent /bi.ty.mas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	bitume /bi.tym/	—	bitumons /bi.ty.mɔ̃/	bitumez /bi.ty.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).

Further reading

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