atterrir

French

Etymology

a- +‎ terre +‎ -ir

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.tɛ.ʁiʁ/ ~ /a.te.ʁiʁ/

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• Rhymes: -iʁ

Verb

atterrir

1. (intransitive) To land (a plane, helicopter 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 atterrir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	atterrir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	atterrissant /a.tɛ.ʁi.sɑ̃/ or /a.te.ʁi.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		atterri /a.tɛ.ʁi/ or /a.te.ʁi/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	atterris /a.tɛ.ʁi/ or /a.te.ʁi/	atterris /a.tɛ.ʁi/ or /a.te.ʁi/	atterrit /a.tɛ.ʁi/ or /a.te.ʁi/	atterrissons /a.tɛ.ʁi.sɔ̃/ or /a.te.ʁi.sɔ̃/	atterrissez /a.tɛ.ʁi.se/ or /a.te.ʁi.se/	atterrissent /a.tɛ.ʁis/ or /a.te.ʁis/
	imperfect	atterrissais /a.tɛ.ʁi.sɛ/ or /a.te.ʁi.sɛ/	atterrissais /a.tɛ.ʁi.sɛ/ or /a.te.ʁi.sɛ/	atterrissait /a.tɛ.ʁi.sɛ/ or /a.te.ʁi.sɛ/	atterrissions /a.tɛ.ʁi.sjɔ̃/ or /a.te.ʁi.sjɔ̃/	atterrissiez /a.tɛ.ʁi.sje/ or /a.te.ʁi.sje/	atterrissaient /a.tɛ.ʁi.sɛ/ or /a.te.ʁi.sɛ/
	past historic2	atterris /a.tɛ.ʁi/ or /a.te.ʁi/	atterris /a.tɛ.ʁi/ or /a.te.ʁi/	atterrit /a.tɛ.ʁi/ or /a.te.ʁi/	atterrîmes /a.tɛ.ʁim/ or /a.te.ʁim/	atterrîtes /a.tɛ.ʁit/ or /a.te.ʁit/	atterrirent /a.tɛ.ʁiʁ/ or /a.te.ʁiʁ/
	future	atterrirai /a.tɛ.ʁi.ʁe/ or /a.te.ʁi.ʁe/	atterriras /a.tɛ.ʁi.ʁa/ or /a.te.ʁi.ʁa/	atterrira /a.tɛ.ʁi.ʁa/ or /a.te.ʁi.ʁa/	atterrirons /a.tɛ.ʁi.ʁɔ̃/ or /a.te.ʁi.ʁɔ̃/	atterrirez /a.tɛ.ʁi.ʁe/ or /a.te.ʁi.ʁe/	atterriront /a.tɛ.ʁi.ʁɔ̃/ or /a.te.ʁi.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	atterrirais /a.tɛ.ʁi.ʁɛ/ or /a.te.ʁi.ʁɛ/	atterrirais /a.tɛ.ʁi.ʁɛ/ or /a.te.ʁi.ʁɛ/	atterrirait /a.tɛ.ʁi.ʁɛ/ or /a.te.ʁi.ʁɛ/	atterririons /a.tɛ.ʁi.ʁjɔ̃/ or /a.te.ʁi.ʁjɔ̃/	atterririez /a.tɛ.ʁi.ʁje/ or /a.te.ʁi.ʁje/	atterriraient /a.tɛ.ʁi.ʁɛ/ or /a.te.ʁi.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	atterrisse /a.tɛ.ʁis/ or /a.te.ʁis/	atterrisses /a.tɛ.ʁis/ or /a.te.ʁis/	atterrisse /a.tɛ.ʁis/ or /a.te.ʁis/	atterrissions /a.tɛ.ʁi.sjɔ̃/ or /a.te.ʁi.sjɔ̃/	atterrissiez /a.tɛ.ʁi.sje/ or /a.te.ʁi.sje/	atterrissent /a.tɛ.ʁis/ or /a.te.ʁis/
	imperfect2	atterrisse /a.tɛ.ʁis/ or /a.te.ʁis/	atterrisses /a.tɛ.ʁis/ or /a.te.ʁis/	atterrît /a.tɛ.ʁi/ or /a.te.ʁi/	atterrissions /a.tɛ.ʁi.sjɔ̃/ or /a.te.ʁi.sjɔ̃/	atterrissiez /a.tɛ.ʁi.sje/ or /a.te.ʁi.sje/	atterrissent /a.tɛ.ʁis/ or /a.te.ʁis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	atterris /a.tɛ.ʁi/ or /a.te.ʁi/	—	atterrissons /a.tɛ.ʁi.sɔ̃/ or /a.te.ʁi.sɔ̃/	atterrissez /a.tɛ.ʁi.se/ or /a.te.ʁi.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).

Related terms

• atterrissage

See also

• amerrir
• atterrer

Further reading

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