effriter

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /e.fʁi.te/

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Verb

effriter

1. (transitive) to break up, crumble
2. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to crumble

Conjugation

Conjugation of effriter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	effriter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	effritant /e.fʁi.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		effrité /e.fʁi.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	effrite /e.fʁit/	effrites /e.fʁit/	effrite /e.fʁit/	effritons /e.fʁi.tɔ̃/	effritez /e.fʁi.te/	effritent /e.fʁit/
	imperfect	effritais /e.fʁi.tɛ/	effritais /e.fʁi.tɛ/	effritait /e.fʁi.tɛ/	effritions /e.fʁi.tjɔ̃/	effritiez /e.fʁi.tje/	effritaient /e.fʁi.tɛ/
	past historic2	effritai /e.fʁi.te/	effritas /e.fʁi.ta/	effrita /e.fʁi.ta/	effritâmes /e.fʁi.tam/	effritâtes /e.fʁi.tat/	effritèrent /e.fʁi.tɛʁ/
	future	effriterai /e.fʁi.tʁe/	effriteras /e.fʁi.tʁa/	effritera /e.fʁi.tʁa/	effriterons /e.fʁi.tʁɔ̃/	effriterez /e.fʁi.tʁe/	effriteront /e.fʁi.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	effriterais /e.fʁi.tʁɛ/	effriterais /e.fʁi.tʁɛ/	effriterait /e.fʁi.tʁɛ/	effriterions /e.fʁi.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	effriteriez /e.fʁi.tə.ʁje/	effriteraient /e.fʁi.tʁɛ/
(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	effrite /e.fʁit/	effrites /e.fʁit/	effrite /e.fʁit/	effritions /e.fʁi.tjɔ̃/	effritiez /e.fʁi.tje/	effritent /e.fʁit/
	imperfect2	effritasse /e.fʁi.tas/	effritasses /e.fʁi.tas/	effritât /e.fʁi.ta/	effritassions /e.fʁi.ta.sjɔ̃/	effritassiez /e.fʁi.ta.sje/	effritassent /e.fʁi.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	effrite /e.fʁit/	—	effritons /e.fʁi.tɔ̃/	effritez /e.fʁi.te/	—
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).

Further reading

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