adjoindre

French

Etymology

From Middle French adjoindre, from an alteration of the original Old French ajoindre, based on its etymology, Latin adiungere, present active infinitive of adiungō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ad.ʒwɛ̃dʁ/

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Verb

adjoindre

1. to adjoin
2. (reflexive) to join up

Conjugation

This verb is conjugated like peindre. It uses the same endings as rendre or vendre, but its -nd- becomes -gn- before a vowel, and its past participle ends in 't' instead of a vowel.

Conjugation of adjoindre (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	adjoindre
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	adjoignant /ad.ʒwa.ɲɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		adjoint /ad.ʒwɛ̃/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	adjoins /ad.ʒwɛ̃/	adjoins /ad.ʒwɛ̃/	adjoint /ad.ʒwɛ̃/	adjoignons /ad.ʒwa.ɲɔ̃/	adjoignez /ad.ʒwa.ɲe/	adjoignent /ad.ʒwaɲ/
	imperfect	adjoignais /ad.ʒwa.ɲɛ/	adjoignais /ad.ʒwa.ɲɛ/	adjoignait /ad.ʒwa.ɲɛ/	adjoignions /ad.ʒwa.ɲjɔ̃/	adjoigniez /ad.ʒwa.ɲje/	adjoignaient /ad.ʒwa.ɲɛ/
	past historic2	adjoignis /ad.ʒwa.ɲi/	adjoignis /ad.ʒwa.ɲi/	adjoignit /ad.ʒwa.ɲi/	adjoignîmes /ad.ʒwa.ɲim/	adjoignîtes /ad.ʒwa.ɲit/	adjoignirent /ad.ʒwa.ɲiʁ/
	future	adjoindrai /ad.ʒwɛ̃.dʁe/	adjoindras /ad.ʒwɛ̃.dʁa/	adjoindra /ad.ʒwɛ̃.dʁa/	adjoindrons /ad.ʒwɛ̃.dʁɔ̃/	adjoindrez /ad.ʒwɛ̃.dʁe/	adjoindront /ad.ʒwɛ̃.dʁɔ̃/
	conditional	adjoindrais /ad.ʒwɛ̃.dʁɛ/	adjoindrais /ad.ʒwɛ̃.dʁɛ/	adjoindrait /ad.ʒwɛ̃.dʁɛ/	adjoindrions /ad.ʒwɛ̃.dʁi.jɔ̃/	adjoindriez /ad.ʒwɛ̃.dʁi.je/	adjoindraient /ad.ʒwɛ̃.dʁɛ/
(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	adjoigne /ad.ʒwaɲ/	adjoignes /ad.ʒwaɲ/	adjoigne /ad.ʒwaɲ/	adjoignions /ad.ʒwa.ɲjɔ̃/	adjoigniez /ad.ʒwa.ɲje/	adjoignent /ad.ʒwaɲ/
	imperfect2	adjoignisse /ad.ʒwa.ɲis/	adjoignisses /ad.ʒwa.ɲis/	adjoignît /ad.ʒwa.ɲi/	adjoignissions /ad.ʒwa.ɲi.sjɔ̃/	adjoignissiez /ad.ʒwa.ɲi.sje/	adjoignissent /ad.ʒwa.ɲis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	adjoins /ad.ʒwɛ̃/	—	adjoignons /ad.ʒwa.ɲɔ̃/	adjoignez /ad.ʒwa.ɲe/	—
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).

Related terms

• adjonction
• joindre

Further reading

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