exténuer
See also: extenuer
French
Pronunciation
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Verb
exténuer
- to extenuate, weaken, exhaust
Conjugation
Conjugation of exténuer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | exténuer | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | exténuant /ɛk.ste.nɥɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | exténué /ɛk.ste.nɥe/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) | present | exténue /ɛk.ste.ny/ | exténues /ɛk.ste.ny/ | exténue /ɛk.ste.ny/ | exténuons /ɛk.ste.nɥɔ̃/ | exténuez /ɛk.ste.nɥe/ | exténuent /ɛk.ste.ny/ |
imperfect | exténuais /ɛk.ste.nɥɛ/ | exténuais /ɛk.ste.nɥɛ/ | exténuait /ɛk.ste.nɥɛ/ | exténuions /ɛk.ste.ny.jɔ̃/ | exténuiez /ɛk.ste.ny.je/ | exténuaient /ɛk.ste.nɥɛ/ | |
past historic2 | exténuai /ɛk.ste.nɥe/ | exténuas /ɛk.ste.nɥa/ | exténua /ɛk.ste.nɥa/ | exténuâmes /ɛk.ste.nɥam/ | exténuâtes /ɛk.ste.nɥat/ | exténuèrent /ɛk.ste.nɥɛʁ/ | |
future | exténuerai /ɛk.ste.ny.ʁe/ | exténueras /ɛk.ste.ny.ʁa/ | exténuera /ɛk.ste.ny.ʁa/ | exténuerons /ɛk.ste.ny.ʁɔ̃/ | exténuerez /ɛk.ste.ny.ʁe/ | exténueront /ɛk.ste.ny.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | exténuerais /ɛk.ste.ny.ʁɛ/ | exténuerais /ɛk.ste.ny.ʁɛ/ | exténuerait /ɛk.ste.ny.ʁɛ/ | exténuerions /ɛk.ste.ny.ʁjɔ̃/ | exténueriez /ɛk.ste.ny.ʁje/ | exténueraient /ɛk.ste.ny.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 | exténue /ɛk.ste.ny/ | exténues /ɛk.ste.ny/ | exténue /ɛk.ste.ny/ | exténuions /ɛk.ste.ny.jɔ̃/ | exténuiez /ɛk.ste.ny.je/ | exténuent /ɛk.ste.ny/ |
imperfect2 | exténuasse /ɛk.ste.nɥas/ | exténuasses /ɛk.ste.nɥas/ | exténuât /ɛk.ste.nɥa/ | exténuassions /ɛk.ste.nɥa.sjɔ̃/ | exténuassiez /ɛk.ste.nɥa.sje/ | exténuassent /ɛk.ste.nɥas/ | |
(compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | exténue /ɛk.ste.ny/ | — | exténuons /ɛk.ste.nɥɔ̃/ | exténuez /ɛk.ste.nɥe/ | — | |
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). |
Descendants
- → Romanian: extenua
Further reading
- “exténuer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.