adoucir
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French [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Old French adolcir, from Latin ad (“to, toward”) + dulcis (“sweet”) + Old French verbal suffix -ir
Pronunciation [edit]
Verb [edit]
adoucir
- to make mild
- to sweeten
- to soften
- (figuratively, by extension) to appease
- (reflexive, s'adoucir) to become milder
Derived terms [edit]
Conjugation [edit]
- 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 adoucir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | adoucir | avoir adouci | |||||
| gerund | en adoucissant | en ayant adouci | |||||
| present participle | adoucissant | ||||||
| past participle | adouci | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | adoucis | adoucis | adoucit | adoucissons | adoucissez | adoucissent |
| imperfect | adoucissais | adoucissais | adoucissait | adoucissions | adoucissiez | adoucissaient | |
| past historic1 | adoucis | adoucis | adoucit | adoucîmes | adoucîtes | adoucirent | |
| future | adoucirai | adouciras | adoucira | adoucirons | adoucirez | adouciront | |
| conditional | adoucirais | adoucirais | adoucirait | adoucirions | adouciriez | adouciraient | |
| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior1 | Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | adoucisse | adoucisses | adoucisse | adoucissions | adoucissiez | adoucissent |
| imperfect1 | adoucisse | adoucisses | adoucît | adoucissions | adoucissiez | adoucissent | |
| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | adoucis | — | adoucissons | adoucissez | — | ||
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