ahurir

French

Etymology

From hure.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.y.ʁiʁ/

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Verb

ahurir

1. to astound, dumbfound, stun

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 ahurir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	ahurir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	ahurissant /a.y.ʁi.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		ahuri /a.y.ʁi/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	ahuris /a.y.ʁi/	ahuris /a.y.ʁi/	ahurit /a.y.ʁi/	ahurissons /a.y.ʁi.sɔ̃/	ahurissez /a.y.ʁi.se/	ahurissent /a.y.ʁis/
	imperfect	ahurissais /a.y.ʁi.sɛ/	ahurissais /a.y.ʁi.sɛ/	ahurissait /a.y.ʁi.sɛ/	ahurissions /a.y.ʁi.sjɔ̃/	ahurissiez /a.y.ʁi.sje/	ahurissaient /a.y.ʁi.sɛ/
	past historic2	ahuris /a.y.ʁi/	ahuris /a.y.ʁi/	ahurit /a.y.ʁi/	ahurîmes /a.y.ʁim/	ahurîtes /a.y.ʁit/	ahurirent /a.y.ʁiʁ/
	future	ahurirai /a.y.ʁi.ʁe/	ahuriras /a.y.ʁi.ʁa/	ahurira /a.y.ʁi.ʁa/	ahurirons /a.y.ʁi.ʁɔ̃/	ahurirez /a.y.ʁi.ʁe/	ahuriront /a.y.ʁi.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	ahurirais /a.y.ʁi.ʁɛ/	ahurirais /a.y.ʁi.ʁɛ/	ahurirait /a.y.ʁi.ʁɛ/	ahuririons /a.y.ʁi.ʁjɔ̃/	ahuririez /a.y.ʁi.ʁje/	ahuriraient /a.y.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	ahurisse /a.y.ʁis/	ahurisses /a.y.ʁis/	ahurisse /a.y.ʁis/	ahurissions /a.y.ʁi.sjɔ̃/	ahurissiez /a.y.ʁi.sje/	ahurissent /a.y.ʁis/
	imperfect2	ahurisse /a.y.ʁis/	ahurisses /a.y.ʁis/	ahurît /a.y.ʁi/	ahurissions /a.y.ʁi.sjɔ̃/	ahurissiez /a.y.ʁi.sje/	ahurissent /a.y.ʁis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	ahuris /a.y.ʁi/	—	ahurissons /a.y.ʁi.sɔ̃/	ahurissez /a.y.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).

Derived terms

• ahuri
• ahurissant

Further reading

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