inhiber

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i.ni.be/

Verb

inhiber

1. to inhibit (to hinder; to restrain)

Conjugation

Conjugation of inhiber (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	inhiber
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	inhibant /i.ni.bɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		inhibé /i.ni.be/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	inhibe /i.nib/	inhibes /i.nib/	inhibe /i.nib/	inhibons /i.ni.bɔ̃/	inhibez /i.ni.be/	inhibent /i.nib/
	imperfect	inhibais /i.ni.bɛ/	inhibais /i.ni.bɛ/	inhibait /i.ni.bɛ/	inhibions /i.ni.bjɔ̃/	inhibiez /i.ni.bje/	inhibaient /i.ni.bɛ/
	past historic2	inhibai /i.ni.be/	inhibas /i.ni.ba/	inhiba /i.ni.ba/	inhibâmes /i.ni.bam/	inhibâtes /i.ni.bat/	inhibèrent /i.ni.bɛʁ/
	future	inhiberai /i.ni.bʁe/	inhiberas /i.ni.bʁa/	inhibera /i.ni.bʁa/	inhiberons /i.ni.bʁɔ̃/	inhiberez /i.ni.bʁe/	inhiberont /i.ni.bʁɔ̃/
	conditional	inhiberais /i.ni.bʁɛ/	inhiberais /i.ni.bʁɛ/	inhiberait /i.ni.bʁɛ/	inhiberions /i.ni.bə.ʁjɔ̃/	inhiberiez /i.ni.bə.ʁje/	inhiberaient /i.ni.bʁɛ/
(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	inhibe /i.nib/	inhibes /i.nib/	inhibe /i.nib/	inhibions /i.ni.bjɔ̃/	inhibiez /i.ni.bje/	inhibent /i.nib/
	imperfect2	inhibasse /i.ni.bas/	inhibasses /i.ni.bas/	inhibât /i.ni.ba/	inhibassions /i.ni.ba.sjɔ̃/	inhibassiez /i.ni.ba.sje/	inhibassent /i.ni.bas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	inhibe /i.nib/	—	inhibons /i.ni.bɔ̃/	inhibez /i.ni.be/	—
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).

Further reading

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