aveulir
French
Etymology
From a- + veule + -ir.
Pronunciation
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Verb
aveulir
- (literary) to enfeeble
- (literary) to debase
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 aveulir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | aveulir | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | aveulissant /a.vœ.li.sɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | aveuli /a.vœ.li/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) | present | aveulis /a.vœ.li/ | aveulis /a.vœ.li/ | aveulit /a.vœ.li/ | aveulissons /a.vœ.li.sɔ̃/ | aveulissez /a.vœ.li.se/ | aveulissent /a.vœ.lis/ |
imperfect | aveulissais /a.vœ.li.sɛ/ | aveulissais /a.vœ.li.sɛ/ | aveulissait /a.vœ.li.sɛ/ | aveulissions /a.vœ.li.sjɔ̃/ | aveulissiez /a.vœ.li.sje/ | aveulissaient /a.vœ.li.sɛ/ | |
past historic2 | aveulis /a.vœ.li/ | aveulis /a.vœ.li/ | aveulit /a.vœ.li/ | aveulîmes /a.vœ.lim/ | aveulîtes /a.vœ.lit/ | aveulirent /a.vœ.liʁ/ | |
future | aveulirai /a.vœ.li.ʁe/ | aveuliras /a.vœ.li.ʁa/ | aveulira /a.vœ.li.ʁa/ | aveulirons /a.vœ.li.ʁɔ̃/ | aveulirez /a.vœ.li.ʁe/ | aveuliront /a.vœ.li.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | aveulirais /a.vœ.li.ʁɛ/ | aveulirais /a.vœ.li.ʁɛ/ | aveulirait /a.vœ.li.ʁɛ/ | aveulirions /a.vœ.li.ʁjɔ̃/ | aveuliriez /a.vœ.li.ʁje/ | aveuliraient /a.vœ.li.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 | aveulisse /a.vœ.lis/ | aveulisses /a.vœ.lis/ | aveulisse /a.vœ.lis/ | aveulissions /a.vœ.li.sjɔ̃/ | aveulissiez /a.vœ.li.sje/ | aveulissent /a.vœ.lis/ |
imperfect2 | aveulisse /a.vœ.lis/ | aveulisses /a.vœ.lis/ | aveulît /a.vœ.li/ | aveulissions /a.vœ.li.sjɔ̃/ | aveulissiez /a.vœ.li.sje/ | aveulissent /a.vœ.lis/ | |
(compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | aveulis /a.vœ.li/ | — | aveulissons /a.vœ.li.sɔ̃/ | aveulissez /a.vœ.li.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). |
Synonyms
- affaiblir
Further reading
- “aveulir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.