amoindrir

French

Etymology

a- +‎ moindre +‎ -ir

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.mwɛ̃.dʁiʁ/

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Verb

amoindrir

1. (transitive) to lessen, degrade, decrease, shrink
2. (transitive) to weaken
3. (reflexive) to shrink, wean, reduce

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 amoindrir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	amoindrir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	amoindrissant /a.mwɛ̃.dʁi.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		amoindri /a.mwɛ̃.dʁi/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	amoindris /a.mwɛ̃.dʁi/	amoindris /a.mwɛ̃.dʁi/	amoindrit /a.mwɛ̃.dʁi/	amoindrissons /a.mwɛ̃.dʁi.sɔ̃/	amoindrissez /a.mwɛ̃.dʁi.se/	amoindrissent /a.mwɛ̃.dʁis/
	imperfect	amoindrissais /a.mwɛ̃.dʁi.sɛ/	amoindrissais /a.mwɛ̃.dʁi.sɛ/	amoindrissait /a.mwɛ̃.dʁi.sɛ/	amoindrissions /a.mwɛ̃.dʁi.sjɔ̃/	amoindrissiez /a.mwɛ̃.dʁi.sje/	amoindrissaient /a.mwɛ̃.dʁi.sɛ/
	past historic2	amoindris /a.mwɛ̃.dʁi/	amoindris /a.mwɛ̃.dʁi/	amoindrit /a.mwɛ̃.dʁi/	amoindrîmes /a.mwɛ̃.dʁim/	amoindrîtes /a.mwɛ̃.dʁit/	amoindrirent /a.mwɛ̃.dʁiʁ/
	future	amoindrirai /a.mwɛ̃.dʁi.ʁe/	amoindriras /a.mwɛ̃.dʁi.ʁa/	amoindrira /a.mwɛ̃.dʁi.ʁa/	amoindrirons /a.mwɛ̃.dʁi.ʁɔ̃/	amoindrirez /a.mwɛ̃.dʁi.ʁe/	amoindriront /a.mwɛ̃.dʁi.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	amoindrirais /a.mwɛ̃.dʁi.ʁɛ/	amoindrirais /a.mwɛ̃.dʁi.ʁɛ/	amoindrirait /a.mwɛ̃.dʁi.ʁɛ/	amoindririons /a.mwɛ̃.dʁi.ʁjɔ̃/	amoindririez /a.mwɛ̃.dʁi.ʁje/	amoindriraient /a.mwɛ̃.dʁi.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	amoindrisse /a.mwɛ̃.dʁis/	amoindrisses /a.mwɛ̃.dʁis/	amoindrisse /a.mwɛ̃.dʁis/	amoindrissions /a.mwɛ̃.dʁi.sjɔ̃/	amoindrissiez /a.mwɛ̃.dʁi.sje/	amoindrissent /a.mwɛ̃.dʁis/
	imperfect2	amoindrisse /a.mwɛ̃.dʁis/	amoindrisses /a.mwɛ̃.dʁis/	amoindrît /a.mwɛ̃.dʁi/	amoindrissions /a.mwɛ̃.dʁi.sjɔ̃/	amoindrissiez /a.mwɛ̃.dʁi.sje/	amoindrissent /a.mwɛ̃.dʁis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	amoindris /a.mwɛ̃.dʁi/	—	amoindrissons /a.mwɛ̃.dʁi.sɔ̃/	amoindrissez /a.mwɛ̃.dʁi.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

• amoindrissable

Further reading

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