anoblir

French

Etymology

a- +‎ noble +‎ -ir

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.nɔ.bliʁ/

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Verb

anoblir

1. (transitive) to ennoble, to knight (to bestow nobility, knighthood or a similar title upon somebody):

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 anoblir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	anoblir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	anoblissant /a.nɔ.bli.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		anobli /a.nɔ.bli/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	anoblis /a.nɔ.bli/	anoblis /a.nɔ.bli/	anoblit /a.nɔ.bli/	anoblissons /a.nɔ.bli.sɔ̃/	anoblissez /a.nɔ.bli.se/	anoblissent /a.nɔ.blis/
	imperfect	anoblissais /a.nɔ.bli.sɛ/	anoblissais /a.nɔ.bli.sɛ/	anoblissait /a.nɔ.bli.sɛ/	anoblissions /a.nɔ.bli.sjɔ̃/	anoblissiez /a.nɔ.bli.sje/	anoblissaient /a.nɔ.bli.sɛ/
	past historic2	anoblis /a.nɔ.bli/	anoblis /a.nɔ.bli/	anoblit /a.nɔ.bli/	anoblîmes /a.nɔ.blim/	anoblîtes /a.nɔ.blit/	anoblirent /a.nɔ.bliʁ/
	future	anoblirai /a.nɔ.bli.ʁe/	anobliras /a.nɔ.bli.ʁa/	anoblira /a.nɔ.bli.ʁa/	anoblirons /a.nɔ.bli.ʁɔ̃/	anoblirez /a.nɔ.bli.ʁe/	anobliront /a.nɔ.bli.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	anoblirais /a.nɔ.bli.ʁɛ/	anoblirais /a.nɔ.bli.ʁɛ/	anoblirait /a.nɔ.bli.ʁɛ/	anoblirions /a.nɔ.bli.ʁjɔ̃/	anobliriez /a.nɔ.bli.ʁje/	anobliraient /a.nɔ.bli.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	anoblisse /a.nɔ.blis/	anoblisses /a.nɔ.blis/	anoblisse /a.nɔ.blis/	anoblissions /a.nɔ.bli.sjɔ̃/	anoblissiez /a.nɔ.bli.sje/	anoblissent /a.nɔ.blis/
	imperfect2	anoblisse /a.nɔ.blis/	anoblisses /a.nɔ.blis/	anoblît /a.nɔ.bli/	anoblissions /a.nɔ.bli.sjɔ̃/	anoblissiez /a.nɔ.bli.sje/	anoblissent /a.nɔ.blis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	anoblis /a.nɔ.bli/	—	anoblissons /a.nɔ.bli.sɔ̃/	anoblissez /a.nɔ.bli.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

• anoblissement

Related terms

• ennoblir

Further reading

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