aplatir
French
Pronunciation
Verb
aplatir
- to flatten (to make something flat)
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 aplatir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | aplatir | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | aplatissant /a.pla.ti.sɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | aplati /a.pla.ti/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | aplatis /a.pla.ti/ |
aplatis /a.pla.ti/ |
aplatit /a.pla.ti/ |
aplatissons /a.pla.ti.sɔ̃/ |
aplatissez /a.pla.ti.se/ |
aplatissent /a.pla.tis/ |
| imperfect | aplatissais /a.pla.ti.sɛ/ |
aplatissais /a.pla.ti.sɛ/ |
aplatissait /a.pla.ti.sɛ/ |
aplatissions /a.pla.ti.sjɔ̃/ |
aplatissiez /a.pla.ti.sje/ |
aplatissaient /a.pla.ti.sɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | aplatis /a.pla.ti/ |
aplatis /a.pla.ti/ |
aplatit /a.pla.ti/ |
aplatîmes /a.pla.tim/ |
aplatîtes /a.pla.tit/ |
aplatirent /a.pla.tiʁ/ | |
| future | aplatirai /a.pla.ti.ʁe/ |
aplatiras /a.pla.ti.ʁa/ |
aplatira /a.pla.ti.ʁa/ |
aplatirons /a.pla.ti.ʁɔ̃/ |
aplatirez /a.pla.ti.ʁe/ |
aplatiront /a.pla.ti.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | aplatirais /a.pla.ti.ʁɛ/ |
aplatirais /a.pla.ti.ʁɛ/ |
aplatirait /a.pla.ti.ʁɛ/ |
aplatirions /a.pla.ti.ʁjɔ̃/ |
aplatiriez /a.pla.ti.ʁje/ |
aplatiraient /a.pla.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 | aplatisse /a.pla.tis/ |
aplatisses /a.pla.tis/ |
aplatisse /a.pla.tis/ |
aplatissions /a.pla.ti.sjɔ̃/ |
aplatissiez /a.pla.ti.sje/ |
aplatissent /a.pla.tis/ |
| imperfect2 | aplatisse /a.pla.tis/ |
aplatisses /a.pla.tis/ |
aplatît /a.pla.ti/ |
aplatissions /a.pla.ti.sjɔ̃/ |
aplatissiez /a.pla.ti.sje/ |
aplatissent /a.pla.tis/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | aplatis /a.pla.ti/ |
— | aplatissons /a.pla.ti.sɔ̃/ |
aplatissez /a.pla.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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Derived terms
Derived terms
Further reading
- “aplatir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.