obvier

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔb.vje/

• Audio:

  (file)

Verb

obvier

1. to obviate

Conjugation

Conjugation of obvier (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	obvier
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	obviant /ɔb.vjɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		obvié /ɔb.vje/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	obvie /ɔb.vi/	obvies /ɔb.vi/	obvie /ɔb.vi/	obvions /ɔb.vjɔ̃/	obviez /ɔb.vje/	obvient /ɔb.vi/
	imperfect	obviais /ɔb.vjɛ/	obviais /ɔb.vjɛ/	obviait /ɔb.vjɛ/	obviions /ɔb.vi.jɔ̃/	obviiez /ɔb.vi.je/	obviaient /ɔb.vjɛ/
	past historic2	obviai /ɔb.vje/	obvias /ɔb.vja/	obvia /ɔb.vja/	obviâmes /ɔb.vjam/	obviâtes /ɔb.vjat/	obvièrent /ɔb.vjɛʁ/
	future	obvierai /ɔb.vi.ʁe/	obvieras /ɔb.vi.ʁa/	obviera /ɔb.vi.ʁa/	obvierons /ɔb.vi.ʁɔ̃/	obvierez /ɔb.vi.ʁe/	obvieront /ɔb.vi.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	obvierais /ɔb.vi.ʁɛ/	obvierais /ɔb.vi.ʁɛ/	obvierait /ɔb.vi.ʁɛ/	obvierions /ɔb.vi.ʁjɔ̃/	obvieriez /ɔb.vi.ʁje/	obvieraient /ɔb.vi.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	obvie /ɔb.vi/	obvies /ɔb.vi/	obvie /ɔb.vi/	obviions /ɔb.vi.jɔ̃/	obviiez /ɔb.vi.je/	obvient /ɔb.vi/
	imperfect2	obviasse /ɔb.vjas/	obviasses /ɔb.vjas/	obviât /ɔb.vja/	obviassions /ɔb.vja.sjɔ̃/	obviassiez /ɔb.vja.sje/	obviassent /ɔb.vjas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	obvie /ɔb.vi/	—	obvions /ɔb.vjɔ̃/	obviez /ɔb.vje/	—
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

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