amortir
French
Etymology
From Old French, from Vulgar Latin *admortīre (infinitive *admortēscō), from Latin ad- + mortuus. Compare Italian ammortire, Romanian amorţi. See a-, mort and -ir.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.mɔʁ.tiʁ/
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Verb
amortir
- to cushion, absorb, soften (shock, blow etc.)
- to deaden, muffle (noise)
- (finance) to pay off, amortize; to redeem (a title)
- (architecture) to put an amortizement on
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 amortir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | amortir | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | amortissant /a.mɔʁ.ti.sɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | amorti /a.mɔʁ.ti/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | amortis /a.mɔʁ.ti/ | amortis /a.mɔʁ.ti/ | amortit /a.mɔʁ.ti/ | amortissons /a.mɔʁ.ti.sɔ̃/ | amortissez /a.mɔʁ.ti.se/ | amortissent /a.mɔʁ.tis/ |
| imperfect | amortissais /a.mɔʁ.ti.sɛ/ | amortissais /a.mɔʁ.ti.sɛ/ | amortissait /a.mɔʁ.ti.sɛ/ | amortissions /a.mɔʁ.ti.sjɔ̃/ | amortissiez /a.mɔʁ.ti.sje/ | amortissaient /a.mɔʁ.ti.sɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | amortis /a.mɔʁ.ti/ | amortis /a.mɔʁ.ti/ | amortit /a.mɔʁ.ti/ | amortîmes /a.mɔʁ.tim/ | amortîtes /a.mɔʁ.tit/ | amortirent /a.mɔʁ.tiʁ/ | |
| future | amortirai /a.mɔʁ.ti.ʁe/ | amortiras /a.mɔʁ.ti.ʁa/ | amortira /a.mɔʁ.ti.ʁa/ | amortirons /a.mɔʁ.ti.ʁɔ̃/ | amortirez /a.mɔʁ.ti.ʁe/ | amortiront /a.mɔʁ.ti.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | amortirais /a.mɔʁ.ti.ʁɛ/ | amortirais /a.mɔʁ.ti.ʁɛ/ | amortirait /a.mɔʁ.ti.ʁɛ/ | amortirions /a.mɔʁ.ti.ʁjɔ̃/ | amortiriez /a.mɔʁ.ti.ʁje/ | amortiraient /a.mɔʁ.ti.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 | amortisse /a.mɔʁ.tis/ | amortisses /a.mɔʁ.tis/ | amortisse /a.mɔʁ.tis/ | amortissions /a.mɔʁ.ti.sjɔ̃/ | amortissiez /a.mɔʁ.ti.sje/ | amortissent /a.mɔʁ.tis/ |
| imperfect2 | amortisse /a.mɔʁ.tis/ | amortisses /a.mɔʁ.tis/ | amortît /a.mɔʁ.ti/ | amortissions /a.mɔʁ.ti.sjɔ̃/ | amortissiez /a.mɔʁ.ti.sje/ | amortissent /a.mɔʁ.tis/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | amortis /a.mɔʁ.ti/ | — | amortissons /a.mɔʁ.ti.sɔ̃/ | amortissez /a.mɔʁ.ti.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). | |||||||
Derived terms
- amortissement
Descendants
- → English: amortise
Further reading
- “amortir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.