abalourdir
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.ba.luʁ.diʁ/
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Verb
abalourdir
- (transitive) to make dull and stupid[1]
Conjugation
This is a regular verb of the second conjugation, like finir, choisir, and most other verbs with infinitives ending in -ir. One salient feature of this conjugation is the repeated appearance of the infix -iss-.
Conjugation of abalourdir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | abalourdir | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | abalourdissant /a.ba.luʁ.di.sɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | abalourdi /a.ba.luʁ.di/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) | present | abalourdis /a.ba.luʁ.di/ | abalourdis /a.ba.luʁ.di/ | abalourdit /a.ba.luʁ.di/ | abalourdissons /a.ba.luʁ.di.sɔ̃/ | abalourdissez /a.ba.luʁ.di.se/ | abalourdissent /a.ba.luʁ.dis/ |
imperfect | abalourdissais /a.ba.luʁ.di.sɛ/ | abalourdissais /a.ba.luʁ.di.sɛ/ | abalourdissait /a.ba.luʁ.di.sɛ/ | abalourdissions /a.ba.luʁ.di.sjɔ̃/ | abalourdissiez /a.ba.luʁ.di.sje/ | abalourdissaient /a.ba.luʁ.di.sɛ/ | |
past historic2 | abalourdis /a.ba.luʁ.di/ | abalourdis /a.ba.luʁ.di/ | abalourdit /a.ba.luʁ.di/ | abalourdîmes /a.ba.luʁ.dim/ | abalourdîtes /a.ba.luʁ.dit/ | abalourdirent /a.ba.luʁ.diʁ/ | |
future | abalourdirai /a.ba.luʁ.di.ʁe/ | abalourdiras /a.ba.luʁ.di.ʁa/ | abalourdira /a.ba.luʁ.di.ʁa/ | abalourdirons /a.ba.luʁ.di.ʁɔ̃/ | abalourdirez /a.ba.luʁ.di.ʁe/ | abalourdiront /a.ba.luʁ.di.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | abalourdirais /a.ba.luʁ.di.ʁɛ/ | abalourdirais /a.ba.luʁ.di.ʁɛ/ | abalourdirait /a.ba.luʁ.di.ʁɛ/ | abalourdirions /a.ba.luʁ.di.ʁjɔ̃/ | abalourdiriez /a.ba.luʁ.di.ʁje/ | abalourdiraient /a.ba.luʁ.di.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 | abalourdisse /a.ba.luʁ.dis/ | abalourdisses /a.ba.luʁ.dis/ | abalourdisse /a.ba.luʁ.dis/ | abalourdissions /a.ba.luʁ.di.sjɔ̃/ | abalourdissiez /a.ba.luʁ.di.sje/ | abalourdissent /a.ba.luʁ.dis/ |
imperfect2 | abalourdisse /a.ba.luʁ.dis/ | abalourdisses /a.ba.luʁ.dis/ | abalourdît /a.ba.luʁ.di/ | abalourdissions /a.ba.luʁ.di.sjɔ̃/ | abalourdissiez /a.ba.luʁ.di.sje/ | abalourdissent /a.ba.luʁ.dis/ | |
(compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | abalourdis /a.ba.luʁ.di/ | — | abalourdissons /a.ba.luʁ.di.sɔ̃/ | abalourdissez /a.ba.luʁ.di.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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). |
References
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Further reading
- “abalourdir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.