aigrir

French

Etymology

From aigre +‎ -ir.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ.ɡʁiʁ/ ~ /e.ɡʁiʁ/

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Verb

aigrir

1. to make bitter, to embitter

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 aigrir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	aigrir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	aigrissant /ɛ.ɡʁi.sɑ̃/ or /e.ɡʁi.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		aigri /ɛ.ɡʁi/ or /e.ɡʁi/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	aigris /ɛ.ɡʁi/ or /e.ɡʁi/	aigris /ɛ.ɡʁi/ or /e.ɡʁi/	aigrit /ɛ.ɡʁi/ or /e.ɡʁi/	aigrissons /ɛ.ɡʁi.sɔ̃/ or /e.ɡʁi.sɔ̃/	aigrissez /ɛ.ɡʁi.se/ or /e.ɡʁi.se/	aigrissent /ɛ.ɡʁis/ or /e.ɡʁis/
	imperfect	aigrissais /ɛ.ɡʁi.sɛ/ or /e.ɡʁi.sɛ/	aigrissais /ɛ.ɡʁi.sɛ/ or /e.ɡʁi.sɛ/	aigrissait /ɛ.ɡʁi.sɛ/ or /e.ɡʁi.sɛ/	aigrissions /ɛ.ɡʁi.sjɔ̃/ or /e.ɡʁi.sjɔ̃/	aigrissiez /ɛ.ɡʁi.sje/ or /e.ɡʁi.sje/	aigrissaient /ɛ.ɡʁi.sɛ/ or /e.ɡʁi.sɛ/
	past historic2	aigris /ɛ.ɡʁi/ or /e.ɡʁi/	aigris /ɛ.ɡʁi/ or /e.ɡʁi/	aigrit /ɛ.ɡʁi/ or /e.ɡʁi/	aigrîmes /ɛ.ɡʁim/ or /e.ɡʁim/	aigrîtes /ɛ.ɡʁit/ or /e.ɡʁit/	aigrirent /ɛ.ɡʁiʁ/ or /e.ɡʁiʁ/
	future	aigrirai /ɛ.ɡʁi.ʁe/ or /e.ɡʁi.ʁe/	aigriras /ɛ.ɡʁi.ʁa/ or /e.ɡʁi.ʁa/	aigrira /ɛ.ɡʁi.ʁa/ or /e.ɡʁi.ʁa/	aigrirons /ɛ.ɡʁi.ʁɔ̃/ or /e.ɡʁi.ʁɔ̃/	aigrirez /ɛ.ɡʁi.ʁe/ or /e.ɡʁi.ʁe/	aigriront /ɛ.ɡʁi.ʁɔ̃/ or /e.ɡʁi.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	aigrirais /ɛ.ɡʁi.ʁɛ/ or /e.ɡʁi.ʁɛ/	aigrirais /ɛ.ɡʁi.ʁɛ/ or /e.ɡʁi.ʁɛ/	aigrirait /ɛ.ɡʁi.ʁɛ/ or /e.ɡʁi.ʁɛ/	aigririons /ɛ.ɡʁi.ʁjɔ̃/ or /e.ɡʁi.ʁjɔ̃/	aigririez /ɛ.ɡʁi.ʁje/ or /e.ɡʁi.ʁje/	aigriraient /ɛ.ɡʁi.ʁɛ/ or /e.ɡʁi.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	aigrisse /ɛ.ɡʁis/ or /e.ɡʁis/	aigrisses /ɛ.ɡʁis/ or /e.ɡʁis/	aigrisse /ɛ.ɡʁis/ or /e.ɡʁis/	aigrissions /ɛ.ɡʁi.sjɔ̃/ or /e.ɡʁi.sjɔ̃/	aigrissiez /ɛ.ɡʁi.sje/ or /e.ɡʁi.sje/	aigrissent /ɛ.ɡʁis/ or /e.ɡʁis/
	imperfect2	aigrisse /ɛ.ɡʁis/ or /e.ɡʁis/	aigrisses /ɛ.ɡʁis/ or /e.ɡʁis/	aigrît /ɛ.ɡʁi/ or /e.ɡʁi/	aigrissions /ɛ.ɡʁi.sjɔ̃/ or /e.ɡʁi.sjɔ̃/	aigrissiez /ɛ.ɡʁi.sje/ or /e.ɡʁi.sje/	aigrissent /ɛ.ɡʁis/ or /e.ɡʁis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	aigris /ɛ.ɡʁi/ or /e.ɡʁi/	—	aigrissons /ɛ.ɡʁi.sɔ̃/ or /e.ɡʁi.sɔ̃/	aigrissez /ɛ.ɡʁi.se/ or /e.ɡʁi.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

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