agonir
French
Pronunciation
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Verb
agonir
- to throw (insults at), to spit (profanities at)
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 agonir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | agonir | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | agonissant /a.ɡɔ.ni.sɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | agoni /a.ɡɔ.ni/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) | present | agonis /a.ɡɔ.ni/ | agonis /a.ɡɔ.ni/ | agonit /a.ɡɔ.ni/ | agonissons /a.ɡɔ.ni.sɔ̃/ | agonissez /a.ɡɔ.ni.se/ | agonissent /a.ɡɔ.nis/ |
imperfect | agonissais /a.ɡɔ.ni.sɛ/ | agonissais /a.ɡɔ.ni.sɛ/ | agonissait /a.ɡɔ.ni.sɛ/ | agonissions /a.ɡɔ.ni.sjɔ̃/ | agonissiez /a.ɡɔ.ni.sje/ | agonissaient /a.ɡɔ.ni.sɛ/ | |
past historic2 | agonis /a.ɡɔ.ni/ | agonis /a.ɡɔ.ni/ | agonit /a.ɡɔ.ni/ | agonîmes /a.ɡɔ.nim/ | agonîtes /a.ɡɔ.nit/ | agonirent /a.ɡɔ.niʁ/ | |
future | agonirai /a.ɡɔ.ni.ʁe/ | agoniras /a.ɡɔ.ni.ʁa/ | agonira /a.ɡɔ.ni.ʁa/ | agonirons /a.ɡɔ.ni.ʁɔ̃/ | agonirez /a.ɡɔ.ni.ʁe/ | agoniront /a.ɡɔ.ni.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | agonirais /a.ɡɔ.ni.ʁɛ/ | agonirais /a.ɡɔ.ni.ʁɛ/ | agonirait /a.ɡɔ.ni.ʁɛ/ | agonirions /a.ɡɔ.ni.ʁjɔ̃/ | agoniriez /a.ɡɔ.ni.ʁje/ | agoniraient /a.ɡɔ.ni.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 | agonisse /a.ɡɔ.nis/ | agonisses /a.ɡɔ.nis/ | agonisse /a.ɡɔ.nis/ | agonissions /a.ɡɔ.ni.sjɔ̃/ | agonissiez /a.ɡɔ.ni.sje/ | agonissent /a.ɡɔ.nis/ |
imperfect2 | agonisse /a.ɡɔ.nis/ | agonisses /a.ɡɔ.nis/ | agonît /a.ɡɔ.ni/ | agonissions /a.ɡɔ.ni.sjɔ̃/ | agonissiez /a.ɡɔ.ni.sje/ | agonissent /a.ɡɔ.nis/ | |
(compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | agonis /a.ɡɔ.ni/ | — | agonissons /a.ɡɔ.ni.sɔ̃/ | agonissez /a.ɡɔ.ni.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). |
Further reading
- “agonir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.