attérir

French

Pronunciation

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Verb

attérir

1. Dated form of atterrir.

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 attérir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	attérir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	attérissant /a.te.ʁi.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		attéri /a.te.ʁi/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	attéris /a.te.ʁi/	attéris /a.te.ʁi/	attérit /a.te.ʁi/	attérissons /a.te.ʁi.sɔ̃/	attérissez /a.te.ʁi.se/	attérissent /a.te.ʁis/
	imperfect	attérissais /a.te.ʁi.sɛ/	attérissais /a.te.ʁi.sɛ/	attérissait /a.te.ʁi.sɛ/	attérissions /a.te.ʁi.sjɔ̃/	attérissiez /a.te.ʁi.sje/	attérissaient /a.te.ʁi.sɛ/
	past historic2	attéris /a.te.ʁi/	attéris /a.te.ʁi/	attérit /a.te.ʁi/	attérîmes /a.te.ʁim/	attérîtes /a.te.ʁit/	attérirent /a.te.ʁiʁ/
	future	attérirai /a.te.ʁi.ʁe/	attériras /a.te.ʁi.ʁa/	attérira /a.te.ʁi.ʁa/	attérirons /a.te.ʁi.ʁɔ̃/	attérirez /a.te.ʁi.ʁe/	attériront /a.te.ʁi.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	attérirais /a.te.ʁi.ʁɛ/	attérirais /a.te.ʁi.ʁɛ/	attérirait /a.te.ʁi.ʁɛ/	attéririons /a.te.ʁi.ʁjɔ̃/	attéririez /a.te.ʁi.ʁje/	attériraient /a.te.ʁi.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	attérisse /a.te.ʁis/	attérisses /a.te.ʁis/	attérisse /a.te.ʁis/	attérissions /a.te.ʁi.sjɔ̃/	attérissiez /a.te.ʁi.sje/	attérissent /a.te.ʁis/
	imperfect2	attérisse /a.te.ʁis/	attérisses /a.te.ʁis/	attérît /a.te.ʁi/	attérissions /a.te.ʁi.sjɔ̃/	attérissiez /a.te.ʁi.sje/	attérissent /a.te.ʁis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	attéris /a.te.ʁi/	—	attérissons /a.te.ʁi.sɔ̃/	attérissez /a.te.ʁi.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: 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).

Anagrams

• atterri, attirer, retirât, retrait, terrait, titrera, traiter, traitre, traître