ramifier

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French ramifier, borrowed from Medieval Latin ramificāre, from Latin ramus (“branch”) + facio (“to do”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁa.mi.fje/

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Verb

ramifier

1. to ramify
2. to divide

Conjugation

Conjugation of ramifier (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	ramifier
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	ramifiant /ʁa.mi.fjɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		ramifié /ʁa.mi.fje/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	ramifie /ʁa.mi.fi/	ramifies /ʁa.mi.fi/	ramifie /ʁa.mi.fi/	ramifions /ʁa.mi.fjɔ̃/	ramifiez /ʁa.mi.fje/	ramifient /ʁa.mi.fi/
	imperfect	ramifiais /ʁa.mi.fjɛ/	ramifiais /ʁa.mi.fjɛ/	ramifiait /ʁa.mi.fjɛ/	ramifiions /ʁa.mi.fi.jɔ̃/	ramifiiez /ʁa.mi.fi.je/	ramifiaient /ʁa.mi.fjɛ/
	past historic2	ramifiai /ʁa.mi.fje/	ramifias /ʁa.mi.fja/	ramifia /ʁa.mi.fja/	ramifiâmes /ʁa.mi.fjam/	ramifiâtes /ʁa.mi.fjat/	ramifièrent /ʁa.mi.fjɛʁ/
	future	ramifierai /ʁa.mi.fi.ʁe/	ramifieras /ʁa.mi.fi.ʁa/	ramifiera /ʁa.mi.fi.ʁa/	ramifierons /ʁa.mi.fi.ʁɔ̃/	ramifierez /ʁa.mi.fi.ʁe/	ramifieront /ʁa.mi.fi.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	ramifierais /ʁa.mi.fi.ʁɛ/	ramifierais /ʁa.mi.fi.ʁɛ/	ramifierait /ʁa.mi.fi.ʁɛ/	ramifierions /ʁa.mi.fi.ʁjɔ̃/	ramifieriez /ʁa.mi.fi.ʁje/	ramifieraient /ʁa.mi.fi.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	ramifie /ʁa.mi.fi/	ramifies /ʁa.mi.fi/	ramifie /ʁa.mi.fi/	ramifiions /ʁa.mi.fi.jɔ̃/	ramifiiez /ʁa.mi.fi.je/	ramifient /ʁa.mi.fi/
	imperfect2	ramifiasse /ʁa.mi.fjas/	ramifiasses /ʁa.mi.fjas/	ramifiât /ʁa.mi.fja/	ramifiassions /ʁa.mi.fja.sjɔ̃/	ramifiassiez /ʁa.mi.fja.sje/	ramifiassent /ʁa.mi.fjas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	ramifie /ʁa.mi.fi/	—	ramifions /ʁa.mi.fjɔ̃/	ramifiez /ʁa.mi.fje/	—
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).

Derived terms

• ramification

Further reading

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