avilir

French

Etymology

a- +‎ vil +‎ -ir

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.vi.liʁ/

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Verb

avilir

1. to demean, debase, degrade

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 avilir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	avilir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	avilissant /a.vi.li.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		avili /a.vi.li/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	avilis /a.vi.li/	avilis /a.vi.li/	avilit /a.vi.li/	avilissons /a.vi.li.sɔ̃/	avilissez /a.vi.li.se/	avilissent /a.vi.lis/
	imperfect	avilissais /a.vi.li.sɛ/	avilissais /a.vi.li.sɛ/	avilissait /a.vi.li.sɛ/	avilissions /a.vi.li.sjɔ̃/	avilissiez /a.vi.li.sje/	avilissaient /a.vi.li.sɛ/
	past historic2	avilis /a.vi.li/	avilis /a.vi.li/	avilit /a.vi.li/	avilîmes /a.vi.lim/	avilîtes /a.vi.lit/	avilirent /a.vi.liʁ/
	future	avilirai /a.vi.li.ʁe/	aviliras /a.vi.li.ʁa/	avilira /a.vi.li.ʁa/	avilirons /a.vi.li.ʁɔ̃/	avilirez /a.vi.li.ʁe/	aviliront /a.vi.li.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	avilirais /a.vi.li.ʁɛ/	avilirais /a.vi.li.ʁɛ/	avilirait /a.vi.li.ʁɛ/	avilirions /a.vi.li.ʁjɔ̃/	aviliriez /a.vi.li.ʁje/	aviliraient /a.vi.li.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	avilisse /a.vi.lis/	avilisses /a.vi.lis/	avilisse /a.vi.lis/	avilissions /a.vi.li.sjɔ̃/	avilissiez /a.vi.li.sje/	avilissent /a.vi.lis/
	imperfect2	avilisse /a.vi.lis/	avilisses /a.vi.lis/	avilît /a.vi.li/	avilissions /a.vi.li.sjɔ̃/	avilissiez /a.vi.li.sje/	avilissent /a.vi.lis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	avilis /a.vi.li/	—	avilissons /a.vi.li.sɔ̃/	avilissez /a.vi.li.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).

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• livrai