affairer
French
Etymology
From affaire or a backformation of affairé.
Pronunciation
Verb
affairer
- (intransitive, rare) to absorb
- Il était affairé par son travail.
- He was absorbed in his work.
- (reflexive) to busy oneself [from 19th c.]
Conjugation
Conjugation of affairer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | affairer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | affairant /a.fɛ.ʁɑ̃/ or /a.fe.ʁɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | affairé /a.fɛ.ʁe/ or /a.fe.ʁe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | affaire /a.fɛʁ/ |
affaires /a.fɛʁ/ |
affaire /a.fɛʁ/ |
affairons /a.fɛ.ʁɔ̃/ or /a.fe.ʁɔ̃/ |
affairez /a.fɛ.ʁe/ or /a.fe.ʁe/ |
affairent /a.fɛʁ/ |
| imperfect | affairais /a.fɛ.ʁɛ/ or /a.fe.ʁɛ/ |
affairais /a.fɛ.ʁɛ/ or /a.fe.ʁɛ/ |
affairait /a.fɛ.ʁɛ/ or /a.fe.ʁɛ/ |
affairions /a.fɛ.ʁjɔ̃/ or /a.fe.ʁjɔ̃/ |
affairiez /a.fɛ.ʁje/ or /a.fe.ʁje/ |
affairaient /a.fɛ.ʁɛ/ or /a.fe.ʁɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | affairai /a.fɛ.ʁe/ or /a.fe.ʁe/ |
affairas /a.fɛ.ʁa/ or /a.fe.ʁa/ |
affaira /a.fɛ.ʁa/ or /a.fe.ʁa/ |
affairâmes /a.fɛ.ʁam/ or /a.fe.ʁam/ |
affairâtes /a.fɛ.ʁat/ or /a.fe.ʁat/ |
affairèrent /a.fɛ.ʁɛʁ/ or /a.fe.ʁɛʁ/ | |
| future | affairerai /a.fɛ.ʁə.ʁe/ or /a.fe.ʁə.ʁe/ |
affaireras /a.fɛ.ʁə.ʁa/ or /a.fe.ʁə.ʁa/ |
affairera /a.fɛ.ʁə.ʁa/ or /a.fe.ʁə.ʁa/ |
affairerons /a.fɛ.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ or /a.fe.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ |
affairerez /a.fɛ.ʁə.ʁe/ or /a.fe.ʁə.ʁe/ |
affaireront /a.fɛ.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ or /a.fe.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | affairerais /a.fɛ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ or /a.fe.ʁə.ʁɛ/ |
affairerais /a.fɛ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ or /a.fe.ʁə.ʁɛ/ |
affairerait /a.fɛ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ or /a.fe.ʁə.ʁɛ/ |
affairerions /a.fɛ.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /a.fe.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
affaireriez /a.fɛ.ʁə.ʁje/ or /a.fe.ʁə.ʁje/ |
affaireraient /a.fɛ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ or /a.fe.ʁə.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 | affaire /a.fɛʁ/ |
affaires /a.fɛʁ/ |
affaire /a.fɛʁ/ |
affairions /a.fɛ.ʁjɔ̃/ or /a.fe.ʁjɔ̃/ |
affairiez /a.fɛ.ʁje/ or /a.fe.ʁje/ |
affairent /a.fɛʁ/ |
| imperfect2 | affairasse /a.fɛ.ʁas/ or /a.fe.ʁas/ |
affairasses /a.fɛ.ʁas/ or /a.fe.ʁas/ |
affairât /a.fɛ.ʁa/ or /a.fe.ʁa/ |
affairassions /a.fɛ.ʁa.sjɔ̃/ or /a.fe.ʁa.sjɔ̃/ |
affairassiez /a.fɛ.ʁa.sje/ or /a.fe.ʁa.sje/ |
affairassent /a.fɛ.ʁas/ or /a.fe.ʁas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | affaire /a.fɛʁ/ |
— | affairons /a.fɛ.ʁɔ̃/ or /a.fe.ʁɔ̃/ |
affairez /a.fɛ.ʁe/ or /a.fe.ʁe/ |
— | |
| 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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Related terms
Further reading
- “affairer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.