fléchir

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French

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old French flechir, from an original flechier (with a change in verb class), from Vulgar Latin *flecticāre, frequentative based on Latin flectere.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /fle.ʃiʁ/
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Verb

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fléchir

  1. (transitive) to bend, to fold
  2. (intransitive) to bend, to bend over
  3. (transitive) to flex (eg. a muscle)
  4. (figuratively, transitive) to provoke pity

Conjugation

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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-.

Derived terms

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