aboutir
French
Etymology
From Middle French aboutir, from Old French aboutir (“to endure stubbornly, persist”), derived from bouter (“to persist”), ultimately of Germanic origin, equivalent to a- + bouter. See also bout.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.bu.tiʁ/
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Verb
aboutir (intransitive)
- (literally) to lead to, to end up in, to reach [+ à (object)]
- (figuratively) to lead to, to have the consequence of [+ à (object)]
- to reach a conclusion, to succeed
- to touch by one end
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 aboutir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | aboutir | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | aboutissant /a.bu.ti.sɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | abouti /a.bu.ti/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | aboutis /a.bu.ti/ | aboutis /a.bu.ti/ | aboutit /a.bu.ti/ | aboutissons /a.bu.ti.sɔ̃/ | aboutissez /a.bu.ti.se/ | aboutissent /a.bu.tis/ |
| imperfect | aboutissais /a.bu.ti.sɛ/ | aboutissais /a.bu.ti.sɛ/ | aboutissait /a.bu.ti.sɛ/ | aboutissions /a.bu.ti.sjɔ̃/ | aboutissiez /a.bu.ti.sje/ | aboutissaient /a.bu.ti.sɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | aboutis /a.bu.ti/ | aboutis /a.bu.ti/ | aboutit /a.bu.ti/ | aboutîmes /a.bu.tim/ | aboutîtes /a.bu.tit/ | aboutirent /a.bu.tiʁ/ | |
| future | aboutirai /a.bu.ti.ʁe/ | aboutiras /a.bu.ti.ʁa/ | aboutira /a.bu.ti.ʁa/ | aboutirons /a.bu.ti.ʁɔ̃/ | aboutirez /a.bu.ti.ʁe/ | aboutiront /a.bu.ti.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | aboutirais /a.bu.ti.ʁɛ/ | aboutirais /a.bu.ti.ʁɛ/ | aboutirait /a.bu.ti.ʁɛ/ | aboutirions /a.bu.ti.ʁjɔ̃/ | aboutiriez /a.bu.ti.ʁje/ | aboutiraient /a.bu.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 | aboutisse /a.bu.tis/ | aboutisses /a.bu.tis/ | aboutisse /a.bu.tis/ | aboutissions /a.bu.ti.sjɔ̃/ | aboutissiez /a.bu.ti.sje/ | aboutissent /a.bu.tis/ |
| imperfect2 | aboutisse /a.bu.tis/ | aboutisses /a.bu.tis/ | aboutît /a.bu.ti/ | aboutissions /a.bu.ti.sjɔ̃/ | aboutissiez /a.bu.ti.sje/ | aboutissent /a.bu.tis/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | aboutis /a.bu.ti/ | — | aboutissons /a.bu.ti.sɔ̃/ | aboutissez /a.bu.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
- aboutissement
- tenants et aboutissants
Further reading
- “aboutir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- abrouti
- broutai