alentir
Catalan
Etymology
Pronunciation
Verb
alentir (first-person singular present alenteixo, first-person singular preterite alentí, past participle alentit)
- (transitive, reflexive) to slow, to slow down
Conjugation
Further reading
- “alentir” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “alentir”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “alentir” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “alentir” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
Audio: (file)
Verb
alentir
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 alentir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | alentir | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | alentissant /a.lɑ̃.ti.sɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | alenti /a.lɑ̃.ti/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | alentis /a.lɑ̃.ti/ |
alentis /a.lɑ̃.ti/ |
alentit /a.lɑ̃.ti/ |
alentissons /a.lɑ̃.ti.sɔ̃/ |
alentissez /a.lɑ̃.ti.se/ |
alentissent /a.lɑ̃.tis/ |
imperfect | alentissais /a.lɑ̃.ti.sɛ/ |
alentissais /a.lɑ̃.ti.sɛ/ |
alentissait /a.lɑ̃.ti.sɛ/ |
alentissions /a.lɑ̃.ti.sjɔ̃/ |
alentissiez /a.lɑ̃.ti.sje/ |
alentissaient /a.lɑ̃.ti.sɛ/ | |
past historic2 | alentis /a.lɑ̃.ti/ |
alentis /a.lɑ̃.ti/ |
alentit /a.lɑ̃.ti/ |
alentîmes /a.lɑ̃.tim/ |
alentîtes /a.lɑ̃.tit/ |
alentirent /a.lɑ̃.tiʁ/ | |
future | alentirai /a.lɑ̃.ti.ʁe/ |
alentiras /a.lɑ̃.ti.ʁa/ |
alentira /a.lɑ̃.ti.ʁa/ |
alentirons /a.lɑ̃.ti.ʁɔ̃/ |
alentirez /a.lɑ̃.ti.ʁe/ |
alentiront /a.lɑ̃.ti.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | alentirais /a.lɑ̃.ti.ʁɛ/ |
alentirais /a.lɑ̃.ti.ʁɛ/ |
alentirait /a.lɑ̃.ti.ʁɛ/ |
alentirions /a.lɑ̃.ti.ʁjɔ̃/ |
alentiriez /a.lɑ̃.ti.ʁje/ |
alentiraient /a.lɑ̃.ti.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 | alentisse /a.lɑ̃.tis/ |
alentisses /a.lɑ̃.tis/ |
alentisse /a.lɑ̃.tis/ |
alentissions /a.lɑ̃.ti.sjɔ̃/ |
alentissiez /a.lɑ̃.ti.sje/ |
alentissent /a.lɑ̃.tis/ |
imperfect2 | alentisse /a.lɑ̃.tis/ |
alentisses /a.lɑ̃.tis/ |
alentît /a.lɑ̃.ti/ |
alentissions /a.lɑ̃.ti.sjɔ̃/ |
alentissiez /a.lɑ̃.ti.sje/ |
alentissent /a.lɑ̃.tis/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | alentis /a.lɑ̃.ti/ |
— | alentissons /a.lɑ̃.ti.sɔ̃/ |
alentissez /a.lɑ̃.ti.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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). |
Synonyms
- ralentir (much more common)
Further reading
- “alentir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
Occitan
Etymology
Verb
alentir
- to slow down
Conjugation
This verb needs an inflection-table template.
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