aplanir

French

Etymology

From a- +‎ plan +‎ -ir.

Pronunciation

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Verb

aplanir

1. to level, even out

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 aplanir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	aplanir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	aplanissant /a.pla.ni.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		aplani /a.pla.ni/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	aplanis /a.pla.ni/	aplanis /a.pla.ni/	aplanit /a.pla.ni/	aplanissons /a.pla.ni.sɔ̃/	aplanissez /a.pla.ni.se/	aplanissent /a.pla.nis/
	imperfect	aplanissais /a.pla.ni.sɛ/	aplanissais /a.pla.ni.sɛ/	aplanissait /a.pla.ni.sɛ/	aplanissions /a.pla.ni.sjɔ̃/	aplanissiez /a.pla.ni.sje/	aplanissaient /a.pla.ni.sɛ/
	past historic2	aplanis /a.pla.ni/	aplanis /a.pla.ni/	aplanit /a.pla.ni/	aplanîmes /a.pla.nim/	aplanîtes /a.pla.nit/	aplanirent /a.pla.niʁ/
	future	aplanirai /a.pla.ni.ʁe/	aplaniras /a.pla.ni.ʁa/	aplanira /a.pla.ni.ʁa/	aplanirons /a.pla.ni.ʁɔ̃/	aplanirez /a.pla.ni.ʁe/	aplaniront /a.pla.ni.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	aplanirais /a.pla.ni.ʁɛ/	aplanirais /a.pla.ni.ʁɛ/	aplanirait /a.pla.ni.ʁɛ/	aplanirions /a.pla.ni.ʁjɔ̃/	aplaniriez /a.pla.ni.ʁje/	aplaniraient /a.pla.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	aplanisse /a.pla.nis/	aplanisses /a.pla.nis/	aplanisse /a.pla.nis/	aplanissions /a.pla.ni.sjɔ̃/	aplanissiez /a.pla.ni.sje/	aplanissent /a.pla.nis/
	imperfect2	aplanisse /a.pla.nis/	aplanisses /a.pla.nis/	aplanît /a.pla.ni/	aplanissions /a.pla.ni.sjɔ̃/	aplanissiez /a.pla.ni.sje/	aplanissent /a.pla.nis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	aplanis /a.pla.ni/	—	aplanissons /a.pla.ni.sɔ̃/	aplanissez /a.pla.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

• aplanissement

Further reading

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