alentir

Catalan

Etymology

a- +‎ lent +‎ -ir

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ə.lənˈti]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [a.lenˈtiɾ]
• Rhymes: -i(ɾ)

Verb

alentir (first-person singular present alenteixo, first-person singular preterite alentí, past participle alentit)

1. (transitive, reflexive) to slow, to slow down

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.

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French

Etymology

a- +‎ lent +‎ -ir

Pronunciation

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Verb

alentir

1. (chiefly obsolete) to slow down

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
	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		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
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: 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).

Synonyms

• ralentir (much more common)

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• ralenti, reliant

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Occitan

Etymology

a- +‎ lent +‎ -ir

Verb

alentir

1. to slow down

Conjugation

This verb needs an inflection-table template.