nidifier
French
Etymology
Loaned from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin nidificō, nīdificāre.
Verb
nidifier
- to nidify; to make a nest
Conjugation
Conjugation of nidifier (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | nidifier | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | nidifiant /ni.di.fjɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | nidifié /ni.di.fje/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | nidifie /ni.di.fi/ |
nidifies /ni.di.fi/ |
nidifie /ni.di.fi/ |
nidifions /ni.di.fjɔ̃/ |
nidifiez /ni.di.fje/ |
nidifient /ni.di.fi/ |
| imperfect | nidifiais /ni.di.fjɛ/ |
nidifiais /ni.di.fjɛ/ |
nidifiait /ni.di.fjɛ/ |
nidifiions /ni.di.fi.jɔ̃/ |
nidifiiez /ni.di.fi.je/ |
nidifiaient /ni.di.fjɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | nidifiai /ni.di.fje/ |
nidifias /ni.di.fja/ |
nidifia /ni.di.fja/ |
nidifiâmes /ni.di.fjam/ |
nidifiâtes /ni.di.fjat/ |
nidifièrent /ni.di.fjɛʁ/ | |
| future | nidifierai /ni.di.fi.ʁe/ |
nidifieras /ni.di.fi.ʁa/ |
nidifiera /ni.di.fi.ʁa/ |
nidifierons /ni.di.fi.ʁɔ̃/ |
nidifierez /ni.di.fi.ʁe/ |
nidifieront /ni.di.fi.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | nidifierais /ni.di.fi.ʁɛ/ |
nidifierais /ni.di.fi.ʁɛ/ |
nidifierait /ni.di.fi.ʁɛ/ |
nidifierions /ni.di.fi.ʁjɔ̃/ |
nidifieriez /ni.di.fi.ʁje/ |
nidifieraient /ni.di.fi.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 | nidifie /ni.di.fi/ |
nidifies /ni.di.fi/ |
nidifie /ni.di.fi/ |
nidifiions /ni.di.fi.jɔ̃/ |
nidifiiez /ni.di.fi.je/ |
nidifient /ni.di.fi/ |
| imperfect2 | nidifiasse /ni.di.fjas/ |
nidifiasses /ni.di.fjas/ |
nidifiât /ni.di.fja/ |
nidifiassions /ni.di.fja.sjɔ̃/ |
nidifiassiez /ni.di.fja.sje/ |
nidifiassent /ni.di.fjas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | nidifie /ni.di.fi/ |
— | nidifions /ni.di.fjɔ̃/ |
nidifiez /ni.di.fje/ |
— | |
| 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
- “nidifier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.