assouvir
French
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Late Latin *assōpīre (“satisfy”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin sōpīre (“sleep”) (influenced by (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French assevir (“attain”)). Doublet of assoupir.
Pronunciation
Verb
assouvir
- (transitive) to satisfy, assuage (hunger, passion, etc.)
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 assouvir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | assouvir | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | assouvissant /a.su.vi.sɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | assouvi /a.su.vi/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | assouvis /a.su.vi/ |
assouvis /a.su.vi/ |
assouvit /a.su.vi/ |
assouvissons /a.su.vi.sɔ̃/ |
assouvissez /a.su.vi.se/ |
assouvissent /a.su.vis/ |
imperfect | assouvissais /a.su.vi.sɛ/ |
assouvissais /a.su.vi.sɛ/ |
assouvissait /a.su.vi.sɛ/ |
assouvissions /a.su.vi.sjɔ̃/ |
assouvissiez /a.su.vi.sje/ |
assouvissaient /a.su.vi.sɛ/ | |
past historic2 | assouvis /a.su.vi/ |
assouvis /a.su.vi/ |
assouvit /a.su.vi/ |
assouvîmes /a.su.vim/ |
assouvîtes /a.su.vit/ |
assouvirent /a.su.viʁ/ | |
future | assouvirai /a.su.vi.ʁe/ |
assouviras /a.su.vi.ʁa/ |
assouvira /a.su.vi.ʁa/ |
assouvirons /a.su.vi.ʁɔ̃/ |
assouvirez /a.su.vi.ʁe/ |
assouviront /a.su.vi.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | assouvirais /a.su.vi.ʁɛ/ |
assouvirais /a.su.vi.ʁɛ/ |
assouvirait /a.su.vi.ʁɛ/ |
assouvirions /a.su.vi.ʁjɔ̃/ |
assouviriez /a.su.vi.ʁje/ |
assouviraient /a.su.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 | assouvisse /a.su.vis/ |
assouvisses /a.su.vis/ |
assouvisse /a.su.vis/ |
assouvissions /a.su.vi.sjɔ̃/ |
assouvissiez /a.su.vi.sje/ |
assouvissent /a.su.vis/ |
imperfect2 | assouvisse /a.su.vis/ |
assouvisses /a.su.vis/ |
assouvît /a.su.vi/ |
assouvissions /a.su.vi.sjɔ̃/ |
assouvissiez /a.su.vi.sje/ |
assouvissent /a.su.vis/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | assouvis /a.su.vi/ |
— | assouvissons /a.su.vi.sɔ̃/ |
assouvissez /a.su.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). |
Related terms
Further reading
- “assouvir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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