effondrer
French
Etymology
From Old French esfondrer, from Vulgar Latin *exfunderare, from fundus (“fond”). Compare Catalan esfondrar.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /e.fɔ̃.dʁe/
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Verb
effondrer
- (transitive or reflexive) to collapse [from the 12th c.]
Conjugation
Conjugation of effondrer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | effondrer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | effondrant /e.fɔ̃.dʁɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | effondré /e.fɔ̃.dʁe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | effondre /e.fɔ̃dʁ/ | effondres /e.fɔ̃dʁ/ | effondre /e.fɔ̃dʁ/ | effondrons /e.fɔ̃.dʁɔ̃/ | effondrez /e.fɔ̃.dʁe/ | effondrent /e.fɔ̃dʁ/ |
| imperfect | effondrais /e.fɔ̃.dʁɛ/ | effondrais /e.fɔ̃.dʁɛ/ | effondrait /e.fɔ̃.dʁɛ/ | effondrions /e.fɔ̃.dʁi.jɔ̃/ | effondriez /e.fɔ̃.dʁi.je/ | effondraient /e.fɔ̃.dʁɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | effondrai /e.fɔ̃.dʁe/ | effondras /e.fɔ̃.dʁa/ | effondra /e.fɔ̃.dʁa/ | effondrâmes /e.fɔ̃.dʁam/ | effondrâtes /e.fɔ̃.dʁat/ | effondrèrent /e.fɔ̃.dʁɛʁ/ | |
| future | effondrerai /e.fɔ̃.dʁə.ʁe/ | effondreras /e.fɔ̃.dʁə.ʁa/ | effondrera /e.fɔ̃.dʁə.ʁa/ | effondrerons /e.fɔ̃.dʁə.ʁɔ̃/ | effondrerez /e.fɔ̃.dʁə.ʁe/ | effondreront /e.fɔ̃.dʁə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | effondrerais /e.fɔ̃.dʁə.ʁɛ/ | effondrerais /e.fɔ̃.dʁə.ʁɛ/ | effondrerait /e.fɔ̃.dʁə.ʁɛ/ | effondrerions /e.fɔ̃.dʁə.ʁjɔ̃/ | effondreriez /e.fɔ̃.dʁə.ʁje/ | effondreraient /e.fɔ̃.dʁə.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 | effondre /e.fɔ̃dʁ/ | effondres /e.fɔ̃dʁ/ | effondre /e.fɔ̃dʁ/ | effondrions /e.fɔ̃.dʁi.jɔ̃/ | effondriez /e.fɔ̃.dʁi.je/ | effondrent /e.fɔ̃dʁ/ |
| imperfect2 | effondrasse /e.fɔ̃.dʁas/ | effondrasses /e.fɔ̃.dʁas/ | effondrât /e.fɔ̃.dʁa/ | effondrassions /e.fɔ̃.dʁa.sjɔ̃/ | effondrassiez /e.fɔ̃.dʁa.sje/ | effondrassent /e.fɔ̃.dʁas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | effondre /e.fɔ̃dʁ/ | — | effondrons /e.fɔ̃.dʁɔ̃/ | effondrez /e.fɔ̃.dʁe/ | — | |
| 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). | |||||||
Related terms
- effondrement
Further reading
- “effondrer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.