assourdir
French
Etymology
See a- + sourd + -ir. Compare also Italian assordire, assordare, Romanian asurzi, Catalan ensordir, Spanish ensordecer, etc.
Pronunciation
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Verb
assourdir
- to deafen
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 assourdir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | assourdir | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | assourdissant /a.suʁ.di.sɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | assourdi /a.suʁ.di/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | assourdis /a.suʁ.di/ |
assourdis /a.suʁ.di/ |
assourdit /a.suʁ.di/ |
assourdissons /a.suʁ.di.sɔ̃/ |
assourdissez /a.suʁ.di.se/ |
assourdissent /a.suʁ.dis/ |
| imperfect | assourdissais /a.suʁ.di.sɛ/ |
assourdissais /a.suʁ.di.sɛ/ |
assourdissait /a.suʁ.di.sɛ/ |
assourdissions /a.suʁ.di.sjɔ̃/ |
assourdissiez /a.suʁ.di.sje/ |
assourdissaient /a.suʁ.di.sɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | assourdis /a.suʁ.di/ |
assourdis /a.suʁ.di/ |
assourdit /a.suʁ.di/ |
assourdîmes /a.suʁ.dim/ |
assourdîtes /a.suʁ.dit/ |
assourdirent /a.suʁ.diʁ/ | |
| future | assourdirai /a.suʁ.di.ʁe/ |
assourdiras /a.suʁ.di.ʁa/ |
assourdira /a.suʁ.di.ʁa/ |
assourdirons /a.suʁ.di.ʁɔ̃/ |
assourdirez /a.suʁ.di.ʁe/ |
assourdiront /a.suʁ.di.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | assourdirais /a.suʁ.di.ʁɛ/ |
assourdirais /a.suʁ.di.ʁɛ/ |
assourdirait /a.suʁ.di.ʁɛ/ |
assourdirions /a.suʁ.di.ʁjɔ̃/ |
assourdiriez /a.suʁ.di.ʁje/ |
assourdiraient /a.suʁ.di.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 | assourdisse /a.suʁ.dis/ |
assourdisses /a.suʁ.dis/ |
assourdisse /a.suʁ.dis/ |
assourdissions /a.suʁ.di.sjɔ̃/ |
assourdissiez /a.suʁ.di.sje/ |
assourdissent /a.suʁ.dis/ |
| imperfect2 | assourdisse /a.suʁ.dis/ |
assourdisses /a.suʁ.dis/ |
assourdît /a.suʁ.di/ |
assourdissions /a.suʁ.di.sjɔ̃/ |
assourdissiez /a.suʁ.di.sje/ |
assourdissent /a.suʁ.dis/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | assourdis /a.suʁ.di/ |
— | assourdissons /a.suʁ.di.sɔ̃/ |
assourdissez /a.suʁ.di.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
- “assourdir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.