colmater

French

Etymology

From colmate (“land for filling”), from Italian colmata (“filled”), from Latin cumulāre, form of cumulō (“to heap, fill”); compare cumulus (“a heap”).

Cognate to Italian colmare; Spanish and Portuguese colmar.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /kɔl.ma.te/
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Verb

colmater

  1. (transitive) to fill in (a low land)
  2. (transitive) to plug (a hole)
  3. (reflexive) to fill up

Conjugation
Conjugation of colmater (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive simple colmater
compound avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1 simple colmatant
/kɔl.ma.tɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
past participle colmaté
/kɔl.ma.te/
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle, on nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses)		 present colmate
/kɔl.mat/		 colmates
/kɔl.mat/		 colmate
/kɔl.mat/		 colmatons
/kɔl.ma.tɔ̃/		 colmatez
/kɔl.ma.te/		 colmatent
/kɔl.mat/
imperfect colmatais
/kɔl.ma.tɛ/		 colmatais
/kɔl.ma.tɛ/		 colmatait
/kɔl.ma.tɛ/		 colmations
/kɔl.ma.tjɔ̃/		 colmatiez
/kɔl.ma.tje/		 colmataient
/kɔl.ma.tɛ/
past historic2 colmatai
/kɔl.ma.te/		 colmatas
/kɔl.ma.ta/		 colmata
/kɔl.ma.ta/		 colmatâmes
/kɔl.ma.tam/		 colmatâtes
/kɔl.ma.tat/		 colmatèrent
/kɔl.ma.tɛʁ/
future colmaterai
/kɔl.ma.tʁe/		 colmateras
/kɔl.ma.tʁa/		 colmatera
/kɔl.ma.tʁa/		 colmaterons
/kɔl.ma.tʁɔ̃/		 colmaterez
/kɔl.ma.tʁe/		 colmateront
/kɔl.ma.tʁɔ̃/
conditional colmaterais
/kɔl.ma.tʁɛ/		 colmaterais
/kɔl.ma.tʁɛ/		 colmaterait
/kɔl.ma.tʁɛ/		 colmaterions
/kɔl.ma.tə.ʁjɔ̃/		 colmateriez
/kɔl.ma.tə.ʁje/		 colmateraient
/kɔl.ma.tʁɛ/
(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 colmate
/kɔl.mat/		 colmates
/kɔl.mat/		 colmate
/kɔl.mat/		 colmations
/kɔl.ma.tjɔ̃/		 colmatiez
/kɔl.ma.tje/		 colmatent
/kɔl.mat/
imperfect2 colmatasse
/kɔl.ma.tas/		 colmatasses
/kɔl.ma.tas/		 colmatât
/kɔl.ma.ta/		 colmatassions
/kɔl.ma.ta.sjɔ̃/		 colmatassiez
/kɔl.ma.ta.sje/		 colmatassent
/kɔl.ma.tas/
(compound
tenses)		 past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — colmate
/kɔl.mat/		 — colmatons
/kɔl.ma.tɔ̃/		 colmatez
/kɔl.ma.te/		 —
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).

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