fléchir
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See also: flechir
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
fléchir
- (transitive) to bend, to fold
- (intransitive) to bend, to bend over
- (transitive) to flex (eg. a muscle)
- (figuratively, transitive) to provoke pity
Conjugation[edit]
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 fléchir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | fléchir | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | fléchissant /fle.ʃi.sɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | fléchi /fle.ʃi/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | fléchis /fle.ʃi/ |
fléchis /fle.ʃi/ |
fléchit /fle.ʃi/ |
fléchissons /fle.ʃi.sɔ̃/ |
fléchissez /fle.ʃi.se/ |
fléchissent /fle.ʃis/ |
| imperfect | fléchissais /fle.ʃi.sɛ/ |
fléchissais /fle.ʃi.sɛ/ |
fléchissait /fle.ʃi.sɛ/ |
fléchissions /fle.ʃi.sjɔ̃/ |
fléchissiez /fle.ʃi.sje/ |
fléchissaient /fle.ʃi.sɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | fléchis /fle.ʃi/ |
fléchis /fle.ʃi/ |
fléchit /fle.ʃi/ |
fléchîmes /fle.ʃim/ |
fléchîtes /fle.ʃit/ |
fléchirent /fle.ʃiʁ/ | |
| future | fléchirai /fle.ʃi.ʁe/ |
fléchiras /fle.ʃi.ʁa/ |
fléchira /fle.ʃi.ʁa/ |
fléchirons /fle.ʃi.ʁɔ̃/ |
fléchirez /fle.ʃi.ʁe/ |
fléchiront /fle.ʃi.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | fléchirais /fle.ʃi.ʁɛ/ |
fléchirais /fle.ʃi.ʁɛ/ |
fléchirait /fle.ʃi.ʁɛ/ |
fléchirions /fle.ʃi.ʁjɔ̃/ |
fléchiriez /fle.ʃi.ʁje/ |
fléchiraient /fle.ʃi.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 | fléchisse /fle.ʃis/ |
fléchisses /fle.ʃis/ |
fléchisse /fle.ʃis/ |
fléchissions /fle.ʃi.sjɔ̃/ |
fléchissiez /fle.ʃi.sje/ |
fléchissent /fle.ʃis/ |
| imperfect2 | fléchisse /fle.ʃis/ |
fléchisses /fle.ʃis/ |
fléchît /fle.ʃi/ |
fléchissions /fle.ʃi.sjɔ̃/ |
fléchissiez /fle.ʃi.sje/ |
fléchissent /fle.ʃis/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | fléchis /fle.ʃi/ |
— | fléchissons /fle.ʃi.sɔ̃/ |
fléchissez /fle.ʃi.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, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Derived terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “fléchir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.