endormir

French

Etymology

From en- +‎ dormir or Latin indormīre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.dɔʁ.miʁ/

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Verb

endormir

1. (transitive) to put to sleep
2. (reflexive, s'endormir) to fall asleep

Conjugation

This is one of a fairly large group of irregular -ir verbs that are all conjugated the same way. Other members of this group include sortir and dormir. The most significant difference between these verbs' conjugation and that of the regular -ir verbs is that these verbs' conjugation does not use the infix -iss-. Further, this conjugation has the forms (je, tu) endors and (il) endort in the present indicative and imperative, whereas a regular -ir verb would have *endormis and *endormit (as in the past historic).

Conjugation of endormir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	endormir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	endormant /ɑ̃.dɔʁ.mɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		endormi /ɑ̃.dɔʁ.mi/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	endors /ɑ̃.dɔʁ/	endors /ɑ̃.dɔʁ/	endort /ɑ̃.dɔʁ/	endormons /ɑ̃.dɔʁ.mɔ̃/	endormez /ɑ̃.dɔʁ.me/	endorment /ɑ̃.dɔʁm/
	imperfect	endormais /ɑ̃.dɔʁ.mɛ/	endormais /ɑ̃.dɔʁ.mɛ/	endormait /ɑ̃.dɔʁ.mɛ/	endormions /ɑ̃.dɔʁ.mjɔ̃/	endormiez /ɑ̃.dɔʁ.mje/	endormaient /ɑ̃.dɔʁ.mɛ/
	past historic2	endormis /ɑ̃.dɔʁ.mi/	endormis /ɑ̃.dɔʁ.mi/	endormit /ɑ̃.dɔʁ.mi/	endormîmes /ɑ̃.dɔʁ.mim/	endormîtes /ɑ̃.dɔʁ.mit/	endormirent /ɑ̃.dɔʁ.miʁ/
	future	endormirai /ɑ̃.dɔʁ.mi.ʁe/	endormiras /ɑ̃.dɔʁ.mi.ʁa/	endormira /ɑ̃.dɔʁ.mi.ʁa/	endormirons /ɑ̃.dɔʁ.mi.ʁɔ̃/	endormirez /ɑ̃.dɔʁ.mi.ʁe/	endormiront /ɑ̃.dɔʁ.mi.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	endormirais /ɑ̃.dɔʁ.mi.ʁɛ/	endormirais /ɑ̃.dɔʁ.mi.ʁɛ/	endormirait /ɑ̃.dɔʁ.mi.ʁɛ/	endormirions /ɑ̃.dɔʁ.mi.ʁjɔ̃/	endormiriez /ɑ̃.dɔʁ.mi.ʁje/	endormiraient /ɑ̃.dɔʁ.mi.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	endorme /ɑ̃.dɔʁm/	endormes /ɑ̃.dɔʁm/	endorme /ɑ̃.dɔʁm/	endormions /ɑ̃.dɔʁ.mjɔ̃/	endormiez /ɑ̃.dɔʁ.mje/	endorment /ɑ̃.dɔʁm/
	imperfect2	endormisse /ɑ̃.dɔʁ.mis/	endormisses /ɑ̃.dɔʁ.mis/	endormît /ɑ̃.dɔʁ.mi/	endormissions /ɑ̃.dɔʁ.mi.sjɔ̃/	endormissiez /ɑ̃.dɔʁ.mi.sje/	endormissent /ɑ̃.dɔʁ.mis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	endors /ɑ̃.dɔʁ/	—	endormons /ɑ̃.dɔʁ.mɔ̃/	endormez /ɑ̃.dɔʁ.me/	—
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).

Derived terms

• s’endormir sur ses lauriers

 

Related terms

• dormir
• endormi

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• rendormi