affadir
French
Pronunciation
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Verb
affadir
- (transitive) to make tasteless, insipid or bland
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 affadir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | affadir | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | affadissant /a.fa.di.sɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | affadi /a.fa.di/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) | present | affadis /a.fa.di/ | affadis /a.fa.di/ | affadit /a.fa.di/ | affadissons /a.fa.di.sɔ̃/ | affadissez /a.fa.di.se/ | affadissent /a.fa.dis/ |
imperfect | affadissais /a.fa.di.sɛ/ | affadissais /a.fa.di.sɛ/ | affadissait /a.fa.di.sɛ/ | affadissions /a.fa.di.sjɔ̃/ | affadissiez /a.fa.di.sje/ | affadissaient /a.fa.di.sɛ/ | |
past historic2 | affadis /a.fa.di/ | affadis /a.fa.di/ | affadit /a.fa.di/ | affadîmes /a.fa.dim/ | affadîtes /a.fa.dit/ | affadirent /a.fa.diʁ/ | |
future | affadirai /a.fa.di.ʁe/ | affadiras /a.fa.di.ʁa/ | affadira /a.fa.di.ʁa/ | affadirons /a.fa.di.ʁɔ̃/ | affadirez /a.fa.di.ʁe/ | affadiront /a.fa.di.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | affadirais /a.fa.di.ʁɛ/ | affadirais /a.fa.di.ʁɛ/ | affadirait /a.fa.di.ʁɛ/ | affadirions /a.fa.di.ʁjɔ̃/ | affadiriez /a.fa.di.ʁje/ | affadiraient /a.fa.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 | affadisse /a.fa.dis/ | affadisses /a.fa.dis/ | affadisse /a.fa.dis/ | affadissions /a.fa.di.sjɔ̃/ | affadissiez /a.fa.di.sje/ | affadissent /a.fa.dis/ |
imperfect2 | affadisse /a.fa.dis/ | affadisses /a.fa.dis/ | affadît /a.fa.di/ | affadissions /a.fa.di.sjɔ̃/ | affadissiez /a.fa.di.sje/ | affadissent /a.fa.dis/ | |
(compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | affadis /a.fa.di/ | — | affadissons /a.fa.di.sɔ̃/ | affadissez /a.fa.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). |
Related terms
- fade
Further reading
- “affadir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.