amatir

French

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Verb

amatir

1. To give gold or silver a matte finish

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 amatir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	amatir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	amatissant /a.ma.ti.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		amati /a.ma.ti/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	amatis /a.ma.ti/	amatis /a.ma.ti/	amatit /a.ma.ti/	amatissons /a.ma.ti.sɔ̃/	amatissez /a.ma.ti.se/	amatissent /a.ma.tis/
	imperfect	amatissais /a.ma.ti.sɛ/	amatissais /a.ma.ti.sɛ/	amatissait /a.ma.ti.sɛ/	amatissions /a.ma.ti.sjɔ̃/	amatissiez /a.ma.ti.sje/	amatissaient /a.ma.ti.sɛ/
	past historic2	amatis /a.ma.ti/	amatis /a.ma.ti/	amatit /a.ma.ti/	amatîmes /a.ma.tim/	amatîtes /a.ma.tit/	amatirent /a.ma.tiʁ/
	future	amatirai /a.ma.ti.ʁe/	amatiras /a.ma.ti.ʁa/	amatira /a.ma.ti.ʁa/	amatirons /a.ma.ti.ʁɔ̃/	amatirez /a.ma.ti.ʁe/	amatiront /a.ma.ti.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	amatirais /a.ma.ti.ʁɛ/	amatirais /a.ma.ti.ʁɛ/	amatirait /a.ma.ti.ʁɛ/	amatirions /a.ma.ti.ʁjɔ̃/	amatiriez /a.ma.ti.ʁje/	amatiraient /a.ma.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	amatisse /a.ma.tis/	amatisses /a.ma.tis/	amatisse /a.ma.tis/	amatissions /a.ma.ti.sjɔ̃/	amatissiez /a.ma.ti.sje/	amatissent /a.ma.tis/
	imperfect2	amatisse /a.ma.tis/	amatisses /a.ma.tis/	amatît /a.ma.ti/	amatissions /a.ma.ti.sjɔ̃/	amatissiez /a.ma.ti.sje/	amatissent /a.ma.tis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	amatis /a.ma.ti/	—	amatissons /a.ma.ti.sɔ̃/	amatissez /a.ma.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).