alunir

French

Etymology

By analogy with atterrir and amerrir, from a- +‎ lune +‎ -ir

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -iʁ

Verb

alunir

1. to land on the Moon

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 alunir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	alunir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	alunissant /a.ly.ni.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		aluni /a.ly.ni/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	alunis /a.ly.ni/	alunis /a.ly.ni/	alunit /a.ly.ni/	alunissons /a.ly.ni.sɔ̃/	alunissez /a.ly.ni.se/	alunissent /a.ly.nis/
	imperfect	alunissais /a.ly.ni.sɛ/	alunissais /a.ly.ni.sɛ/	alunissait /a.ly.ni.sɛ/	alunissions /a.ly.ni.sjɔ̃/	alunissiez /a.ly.ni.sje/	alunissaient /a.ly.ni.sɛ/
	past historic2	alunis /a.ly.ni/	alunis /a.ly.ni/	alunit /a.ly.ni/	alunîmes /a.ly.nim/	alunîtes /a.ly.nit/	alunirent /a.ly.niʁ/
	future	alunirai /a.ly.ni.ʁe/	aluniras /a.ly.ni.ʁa/	alunira /a.ly.ni.ʁa/	alunirons /a.ly.ni.ʁɔ̃/	alunirez /a.ly.ni.ʁe/	aluniront /a.ly.ni.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	alunirais /a.ly.ni.ʁɛ/	alunirais /a.ly.ni.ʁɛ/	alunirait /a.ly.ni.ʁɛ/	alunirions /a.ly.ni.ʁjɔ̃/	aluniriez /a.ly.ni.ʁje/	aluniraient /a.ly.ni.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	alunisse /a.ly.nis/	alunisses /a.ly.nis/	alunisse /a.ly.nis/	alunissions /a.ly.ni.sjɔ̃/	alunissiez /a.ly.ni.sje/	alunissent /a.ly.nis/
	imperfect2	alunisse /a.ly.nis/	alunisses /a.ly.nis/	alunît /a.ly.ni/	alunissions /a.ly.ni.sjɔ̃/	alunissiez /a.ly.ni.sje/	alunissent /a.ly.nis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	alunis /a.ly.ni/	—	alunissons /a.ly.ni.sɔ̃/	alunissez /a.ly.ni.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

• alunissage

Further reading

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