annihiler

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin annihilāre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.ni.i.le/

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Verb

annihiler

1. to annihilate (to reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate)

Conjugation

Conjugation of annihiler (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	annihiler
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	annihilant /a.ni.i.lɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		annihilé /a.ni.i.le/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	annihile /a.ni.il/	annihiles /a.ni.il/	annihile /a.ni.il/	annihilons /a.ni.i.lɔ̃/	annihilez /a.ni.i.le/	annihilent /a.ni.il/
	imperfect	annihilais /a.ni.i.lɛ/	annihilais /a.ni.i.lɛ/	annihilait /a.ni.i.lɛ/	annihilions /a.ni.i.ljɔ̃/	annihiliez /a.ni.i.lje/	annihilaient /a.ni.i.lɛ/
	past historic2	annihilai /a.ni.i.le/	annihilas /a.ni.i.la/	annihila /a.ni.i.la/	annihilâmes /a.ni.i.lam/	annihilâtes /a.ni.i.lat/	annihilèrent /a.ni.i.lɛʁ/
	future	annihilerai /a.ni.il.ʁe/	annihileras /a.ni.il.ʁa/	annihilera /a.ni.il.ʁa/	annihilerons /a.ni.il.ʁɔ̃/	annihilerez /a.ni.il.ʁe/	annihileront /a.ni.il.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	annihilerais /a.ni.il.ʁɛ/	annihilerais /a.ni.il.ʁɛ/	annihilerait /a.ni.il.ʁɛ/	annihilerions /a.ni.i.lə.ʁjɔ̃/	annihileriez /a.ni.i.lə.ʁje/	annihileraient /a.ni.il.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	annihile /a.ni.il/	annihiles /a.ni.il/	annihile /a.ni.il/	annihilions /a.ni.i.ljɔ̃/	annihiliez /a.ni.i.lje/	annihilent /a.ni.il/
	imperfect2	annihilasse /a.ni.i.las/	annihilasses /a.ni.i.las/	annihilât /a.ni.i.la/	annihilassions /a.ni.i.la.sjɔ̃/	annihilassiez /a.ni.i.la.sje/	annihilassent /a.ni.i.las/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	annihile /a.ni.il/	—	annihilons /a.ni.i.lɔ̃/	annihilez /a.ni.i.le/	—
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: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Derived terms

• annihilation

Further reading

• “annihiler”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Latin

Verb

annihiler

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of annihilō