mollir

French

Etymology

From mou (mol, molle), or from Latin mollīre, present active infinitive of molliō (“I soften”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɔ.liʁ/

Verb

mollir

1. (intransitive, rare) to mollify, become soft
2. (intransitive, rare) to ease off or die down; to relent, abate, give way

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 mollir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	mollir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	mollissant /mɔ.li.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		molli /mɔ.li/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	mollis /mɔ.li/	mollis /mɔ.li/	mollit /mɔ.li/	mollissons /mɔ.li.sɔ̃/	mollissez /mɔ.li.se/	mollissent /mɔ.lis/
	imperfect	mollissais /mɔ.li.sɛ/	mollissais /mɔ.li.sɛ/	mollissait /mɔ.li.sɛ/	mollissions /mɔ.li.sjɔ̃/	mollissiez /mɔ.li.sje/	mollissaient /mɔ.li.sɛ/
	past historic2	mollis /mɔ.li/	mollis /mɔ.li/	mollit /mɔ.li/	mollîmes /mɔ.lim/	mollîtes /mɔ.lit/	mollirent /mɔ.liʁ/
	future	mollirai /mɔ.li.ʁe/	molliras /mɔ.li.ʁa/	mollira /mɔ.li.ʁa/	mollirons /mɔ.li.ʁɔ̃/	mollirez /mɔ.li.ʁe/	molliront /mɔ.li.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	mollirais /mɔ.li.ʁɛ/	mollirais /mɔ.li.ʁɛ/	mollirait /mɔ.li.ʁɛ/	mollirions /mɔ.li.ʁjɔ̃/	molliriez /mɔ.li.ʁje/	molliraient /mɔ.li.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	mollisse /mɔ.lis/	mollisses /mɔ.lis/	mollisse /mɔ.lis/	mollissions /mɔ.li.sjɔ̃/	mollissiez /mɔ.li.sje/	mollissent /mɔ.lis/
	imperfect2	mollisse /mɔ.lis/	mollisses /mɔ.lis/	mollît /mɔ.li/	mollissions /mɔ.li.sjɔ̃/	mollissiez /mɔ.li.sje/	mollissent /mɔ.lis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	mollis /mɔ.li/	—	mollissons /mɔ.li.sɔ̃/	mollissez /mɔ.li.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

• amollir (“to soften”)
• ramollir (“to soften”)
• mou
• mouiller

Further reading

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

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Interlingua

Verb

mollir

1. to soften

Conjugation

    Conjugation of mollir

infinitive		mollir
participle		present	perfect
		molliente	mollite
active		simple	perfect
	present	molli	ha mollite
	past	molliva	habeva mollite
	future	mollira	habera mollite
	conditional	mollirea	haberea mollite
	imperative	molli
passive		simple	perfect
	present	es mollite	ha essite mollite
	past	esseva mollite	habeva essite mollite
	future	essera mollite	habera essite mollite
	conditional	esserea mollite	haberea essite mollite
	imperative	sia mollite