asservir
French
Etymology
From a- + serf + -ir. This verb has no relation with servir, nor the (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin verb asservīre.
Pronunciation
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Verb
asservir
- to enslave
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 asservir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | asservir | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | asservissant /a.sɛʁ.vi.sɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | asservi /a.sɛʁ.vi/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | asservis /a.sɛʁ.vi/ |
asservis /a.sɛʁ.vi/ |
asservit /a.sɛʁ.vi/ |
asservissons /a.sɛʁ.vi.sɔ̃/ |
asservissez /a.sɛʁ.vi.se/ |
asservissent /a.sɛʁ.vis/ |
| imperfect | asservissais /a.sɛʁ.vi.sɛ/ |
asservissais /a.sɛʁ.vi.sɛ/ |
asservissait /a.sɛʁ.vi.sɛ/ |
asservissions /a.sɛʁ.vi.sjɔ̃/ |
asservissiez /a.sɛʁ.vi.sje/ |
asservissaient /a.sɛʁ.vi.sɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | asservis /a.sɛʁ.vi/ |
asservis /a.sɛʁ.vi/ |
asservit /a.sɛʁ.vi/ |
asservîmes /a.sɛʁ.vim/ |
asservîtes /a.sɛʁ.vit/ |
asservirent /a.sɛʁ.viʁ/ | |
| future | asservirai /a.sɛʁ.vi.ʁe/ |
asserviras /a.sɛʁ.vi.ʁa/ |
asservira /a.sɛʁ.vi.ʁa/ |
asservirons /a.sɛʁ.vi.ʁɔ̃/ |
asservirez /a.sɛʁ.vi.ʁe/ |
asserviront /a.sɛʁ.vi.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | asservirais /a.sɛʁ.vi.ʁɛ/ |
asservirais /a.sɛʁ.vi.ʁɛ/ |
asservirait /a.sɛʁ.vi.ʁɛ/ |
asservirions /a.sɛʁ.vi.ʁjɔ̃/ |
asserviriez /a.sɛʁ.vi.ʁje/ |
asserviraient /a.sɛʁ.vi.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 | asservisse /a.sɛʁ.vis/ |
asservisses /a.sɛʁ.vis/ |
asservisse /a.sɛʁ.vis/ |
asservissions /a.sɛʁ.vi.sjɔ̃/ |
asservissiez /a.sɛʁ.vi.sje/ |
asservissent /a.sɛʁ.vis/ |
| imperfect2 | asservisse /a.sɛʁ.vis/ |
asservisses /a.sɛʁ.vis/ |
asservît /a.sɛʁ.vi/ |
asservissions /a.sɛʁ.vi.sjɔ̃/ |
asservissiez /a.sɛʁ.vi.sje/ |
asservissent /a.sɛʁ.vis/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | asservis /a.sɛʁ.vi/ |
— | asservissons /a.sɛʁ.vi.sɔ̃/ |
asservissez /a.sɛʁ.vi.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
Further reading
- “asservir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.