effriter
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /e.fʁi.te/
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Verb
effriter
- (transitive) to break up, crumble
- (takes a reflexive pronoun) to crumble
Conjugation
Conjugation of effriter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | effriter | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | effritant /e.fʁi.tɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | effrité /e.fʁi.te/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) | present | effrite /e.fʁit/ | effrites /e.fʁit/ | effrite /e.fʁit/ | effritons /e.fʁi.tɔ̃/ | effritez /e.fʁi.te/ | effritent /e.fʁit/ |
imperfect | effritais /e.fʁi.tɛ/ | effritais /e.fʁi.tɛ/ | effritait /e.fʁi.tɛ/ | effritions /e.fʁi.tjɔ̃/ | effritiez /e.fʁi.tje/ | effritaient /e.fʁi.tɛ/ | |
past historic2 | effritai /e.fʁi.te/ | effritas /e.fʁi.ta/ | effrita /e.fʁi.ta/ | effritâmes /e.fʁi.tam/ | effritâtes /e.fʁi.tat/ | effritèrent /e.fʁi.tɛʁ/ | |
future | effriterai /e.fʁi.tʁe/ | effriteras /e.fʁi.tʁa/ | effritera /e.fʁi.tʁa/ | effriterons /e.fʁi.tʁɔ̃/ | effriterez /e.fʁi.tʁe/ | effriteront /e.fʁi.tʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | effriterais /e.fʁi.tʁɛ/ | effriterais /e.fʁi.tʁɛ/ | effriterait /e.fʁi.tʁɛ/ | effriterions /e.fʁi.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ | effriteriez /e.fʁi.tə.ʁje/ | effriteraient /e.fʁi.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 | effrite /e.fʁit/ | effrites /e.fʁit/ | effrite /e.fʁit/ | effritions /e.fʁi.tjɔ̃/ | effritiez /e.fʁi.tje/ | effritent /e.fʁit/ |
imperfect2 | effritasse /e.fʁi.tas/ | effritasses /e.fʁi.tas/ | effritât /e.fʁi.ta/ | effritassions /e.fʁi.ta.sjɔ̃/ | effritassiez /e.fʁi.ta.sje/ | effritassent /e.fʁi.tas/ | |
(compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | effrite /e.fʁit/ | — | effritons /e.fʁi.tɔ̃/ | effritez /e.fʁi.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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). |
Further reading
- “effriter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.