assoupir

French

Etymology

Doublet of assouvir.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.su.piʁ/

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Verb

assoupir

1. to make drowsy
2. to lull, soften

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 assoupir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	assoupir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	assoupissant /a.su.pi.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		assoupi /a.su.pi/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	assoupis /a.su.pi/	assoupis /a.su.pi/	assoupit /a.su.pi/	assoupissons /a.su.pi.sɔ̃/	assoupissez /a.su.pi.se/	assoupissent /a.su.pis/
	imperfect	assoupissais /a.su.pi.sɛ/	assoupissais /a.su.pi.sɛ/	assoupissait /a.su.pi.sɛ/	assoupissions /a.su.pi.sjɔ̃/	assoupissiez /a.su.pi.sje/	assoupissaient /a.su.pi.sɛ/
	past historic2	assoupis /a.su.pi/	assoupis /a.su.pi/	assoupit /a.su.pi/	assoupîmes /a.su.pim/	assoupîtes /a.su.pit/	assoupirent /a.su.piʁ/
	future	assoupirai /a.su.pi.ʁe/	assoupiras /a.su.pi.ʁa/	assoupira /a.su.pi.ʁa/	assoupirons /a.su.pi.ʁɔ̃/	assoupirez /a.su.pi.ʁe/	assoupiront /a.su.pi.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	assoupirais /a.su.pi.ʁɛ/	assoupirais /a.su.pi.ʁɛ/	assoupirait /a.su.pi.ʁɛ/	assoupirions /a.su.pi.ʁjɔ̃/	assoupiriez /a.su.pi.ʁje/	assoupiraient /a.su.pi.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	assoupisse /a.su.pis/	assoupisses /a.su.pis/	assoupisse /a.su.pis/	assoupissions /a.su.pi.sjɔ̃/	assoupissiez /a.su.pi.sje/	assoupissent /a.su.pis/
	imperfect2	assoupisse /a.su.pis/	assoupisses /a.su.pis/	assoupît /a.su.pi/	assoupissions /a.su.pi.sjɔ̃/	assoupissiez /a.su.pi.sje/	assoupissent /a.su.pis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	assoupis /a.su.pi/	—	assoupissons /a.su.pi.sɔ̃/	assoupissez /a.su.pi.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

• assoupissement

Descendants

• → Italian: assopire

Further reading

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