tiédir
French
FWOTD – 12 December 2013
Etymology
tiède + -ir.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tje.diʁ/
Audio (file)
Verb
tiédir
- (intransitive) to become lukewarm
- 1955, Claude Lévi-Strauss, chapter VII, in Tristes Tropiques, Plon, published 1993, →ISBN, page 67; republished as John & Doreen Weightman, transl., Tristes Tropiques, Penguin, 2011, →ISBN:
- L'air peu à peu tidédissait, les sierras espagnoles défilaient doucement à l'horizon et des mirages en forme de mondrains et de falaises prolongeaient le spectacle pendant des journées entières, au large de la côte d'Afrique trop basse et marécageuse pour être directement visible.
- — The air gradually became warmer, the Spanish sierras went slowly by on the horizon and, off the African coast, which was too low and swampy to be directly visible, the spectacle was prolonged for days on end by mirages representing hillocks and cliff faces.
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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 tiédir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | tiédir | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | tiédissant /tje.di.sɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | tiédi /tje.di/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | tiédis /tje.di/ | tiédis /tje.di/ | tiédit /tje.di/ | tiédissons /tje.di.sɔ̃/ | tiédissez /tje.di.se/ | tiédissent /tje.dis/ |
| imperfect | tiédissais /tje.di.sɛ/ | tiédissais /tje.di.sɛ/ | tiédissait /tje.di.sɛ/ | tiédissions /tje.di.sjɔ̃/ | tiédissiez /tje.di.sje/ | tiédissaient /tje.di.sɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | tiédis /tje.di/ | tiédis /tje.di/ | tiédit /tje.di/ | tiédîmes /tje.dim/ | tiédîtes /tje.dit/ | tiédirent /tje.diʁ/ | |
| future | tiédirai /tje.di.ʁe/ | tiédiras /tje.di.ʁa/ | tiédira /tje.di.ʁa/ | tiédirons /tje.di.ʁɔ̃/ | tiédirez /tje.di.ʁe/ | tiédiront /tje.di.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | tiédirais /tje.di.ʁɛ/ | tiédirais /tje.di.ʁɛ/ | tiédirait /tje.di.ʁɛ/ | tiédirions /tje.di.ʁjɔ̃/ | tiédiriez /tje.di.ʁje/ | tiédiraient /tje.di.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 | tiédisse /tje.dis/ | tiédisses /tje.dis/ | tiédisse /tje.dis/ | tiédissions /tje.di.sjɔ̃/ | tiédissiez /tje.di.sje/ | tiédissent /tje.dis/ |
| imperfect2 | tiédisse /tje.dis/ | tiédisses /tje.dis/ | tiédît /tje.di/ | tiédissions /tje.di.sjɔ̃/ | tiédissiez /tje.di.sje/ | tiédissent /tje.dis/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | tiédis /tje.di/ | — | tiédissons /tje.di.sɔ̃/ | tiédissez /tje.di.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
- Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française (1863-1873)
- “tiédir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.