agiter
French
Etymology
From Latin agito (“I disturb, agitate, toss about”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.ʒi.te/
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Verb
agiter
- to shake, to wave (to move back and forth)
- to agitate
Conjugation
Conjugation of agiter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | agiter | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | agitant /a.ʒi.tɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | agité /a.ʒi.te/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) | present | agite /a.ʒit/ | agites /a.ʒit/ | agite /a.ʒit/ | agitons /a.ʒi.tɔ̃/ | agitez /a.ʒi.te/ | agitent /a.ʒit/ |
imperfect | agitais /a.ʒi.tɛ/ | agitais /a.ʒi.tɛ/ | agitait /a.ʒi.tɛ/ | agitions /a.ʒi.tjɔ̃/ | agitiez /a.ʒi.tje/ | agitaient /a.ʒi.tɛ/ | |
past historic2 | agitai /a.ʒi.te/ | agitas /a.ʒi.ta/ | agita /a.ʒi.ta/ | agitâmes /a.ʒi.tam/ | agitâtes /a.ʒi.tat/ | agitèrent /a.ʒi.tɛʁ/ | |
future | agiterai /a.ʒi.tʁe/ | agiteras /a.ʒi.tʁa/ | agitera /a.ʒi.tʁa/ | agiterons /a.ʒi.tʁɔ̃/ | agiterez /a.ʒi.tʁe/ | agiteront /a.ʒi.tʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | agiterais /a.ʒi.tʁɛ/ | agiterais /a.ʒi.tʁɛ/ | agiterait /a.ʒi.tʁɛ/ | agiterions /a.ʒi.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ | agiteriez /a.ʒi.tə.ʁje/ | agiteraient /a.ʒi.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 | agite /a.ʒit/ | agites /a.ʒit/ | agite /a.ʒit/ | agitions /a.ʒi.tjɔ̃/ | agitiez /a.ʒi.tje/ | agitent /a.ʒit/ |
imperfect2 | agitasse /a.ʒi.tas/ | agitasses /a.ʒi.tas/ | agitât /a.ʒi.ta/ | agitassions /a.ʒi.ta.sjɔ̃/ | agitassiez /a.ʒi.ta.sje/ | agitassent /a.ʒi.tas/ | |
(compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | agite /a.ʒit/ | — | agitons /a.ʒi.tɔ̃/ | agitez /a.ʒi.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). |
Descendants
- → Romanian: agita
Further reading
- “agiter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- gérait
- réagit, réagît
- tirage
Latin
Verb
agiter
- first-person singular present passive subjunctive of agitō