accalmir
French
Pronunciation
Audio (file)
Verb
accalmir
- (reflexive, of the sea) to lull
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 accalmir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | accalmir | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | accalmissant /a.kal.mi.sɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | accalmi /a.kal.mi/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) | present | accalmis /a.kal.mi/ | accalmis /a.kal.mi/ | accalmit /a.kal.mi/ | accalmissons /a.kal.mi.sɔ̃/ | accalmissez /a.kal.mi.se/ | accalmissent /a.kal.mis/ |
imperfect | accalmissais /a.kal.mi.sɛ/ | accalmissais /a.kal.mi.sɛ/ | accalmissait /a.kal.mi.sɛ/ | accalmissions /a.kal.mi.sjɔ̃/ | accalmissiez /a.kal.mi.sje/ | accalmissaient /a.kal.mi.sɛ/ | |
past historic2 | accalmis /a.kal.mi/ | accalmis /a.kal.mi/ | accalmit /a.kal.mi/ | accalmîmes /a.kal.mim/ | accalmîtes /a.kal.mit/ | accalmirent /a.kal.miʁ/ | |
future | accalmirai /a.kal.mi.ʁe/ | accalmiras /a.kal.mi.ʁa/ | accalmira /a.kal.mi.ʁa/ | accalmirons /a.kal.mi.ʁɔ̃/ | accalmirez /a.kal.mi.ʁe/ | accalmiront /a.kal.mi.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | accalmirais /a.kal.mi.ʁɛ/ | accalmirais /a.kal.mi.ʁɛ/ | accalmirait /a.kal.mi.ʁɛ/ | accalmirions /a.kal.mi.ʁjɔ̃/ | accalmiriez /a.kal.mi.ʁje/ | accalmiraient /a.kal.mi.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 | accalmisse /a.kal.mis/ | accalmisses /a.kal.mis/ | accalmisse /a.kal.mis/ | accalmissions /a.kal.mi.sjɔ̃/ | accalmissiez /a.kal.mi.sje/ | accalmissent /a.kal.mis/ |
imperfect2 | accalmisse /a.kal.mis/ | accalmisses /a.kal.mis/ | accalmît /a.kal.mi/ | accalmissions /a.kal.mi.sjɔ̃/ | accalmissiez /a.kal.mi.sje/ | accalmissent /a.kal.mis/ | |
(compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | accalmis /a.kal.mi/ | — | accalmissons /a.kal.mi.sɔ̃/ | accalmissez /a.kal.mi.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
- “accalmir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.