éteindre

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French esteindre, from Old French estaindre, from Latin extinguere.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /e.tɛ̃dʁ/

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Verb

éteindre

1. to turn off (a switch, device, etc.)
   • 2021, Angèle, Pensées positives:

     Besoin de pensées positives ? Éteins l’ordinateur !

     Need to think positive thoughts? Turn off the computer!

2. to put out, to extinguish (a fire)
3. (reflexive) to die out, fade

Conjugation

This verb is conjugated like peindre. It uses the same endings as rendre or vendre, but its -nd- becomes -gn- before a vowel, and its past participle ends in 't' instead of a vowel.

Conjugation of éteindre (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	éteindre
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	éteignant /e.tɛ.ɲɑ̃/ or /e.te.ɲɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		éteint /e.tɛ̃/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	éteins /e.tɛ̃/	éteins /e.tɛ̃/	éteint /e.tɛ̃/	éteignons /e.tɛ.ɲɔ̃/ or /e.te.ɲɔ̃/	éteignez /e.tɛ.ɲe/ or /e.te.ɲe/	éteignent /e.tɛɲ/
	imperfect	éteignais /e.tɛ.ɲɛ/ or /e.te.ɲɛ/	éteignais /e.tɛ.ɲɛ/ or /e.te.ɲɛ/	éteignait /e.tɛ.ɲɛ/ or /e.te.ɲɛ/	éteignions /e.tɛ.ɲjɔ̃/ or /e.te.ɲjɔ̃/	éteigniez /e.tɛ.ɲje/ or /e.te.ɲje/	éteignaient /e.tɛ.ɲɛ/ or /e.te.ɲɛ/
	past historic2	éteignis /e.tɛ.ɲi/ or /e.te.ɲi/	éteignis /e.tɛ.ɲi/ or /e.te.ɲi/	éteignit /e.tɛ.ɲi/ or /e.te.ɲi/	éteignîmes /e.tɛ.ɲim/ or /e.te.ɲim/	éteignîtes /e.tɛ.ɲit/ or /e.te.ɲit/	éteignirent /e.tɛ.ɲiʁ/ or /e.te.ɲiʁ/
	future	éteindrai /e.tɛ̃.dʁe/	éteindras /e.tɛ̃.dʁa/	éteindra /e.tɛ̃.dʁa/	éteindrons /e.tɛ̃.dʁɔ̃/	éteindrez /e.tɛ̃.dʁe/	éteindront /e.tɛ̃.dʁɔ̃/
	conditional	éteindrais /e.tɛ̃.dʁɛ/	éteindrais /e.tɛ̃.dʁɛ/	éteindrait /e.tɛ̃.dʁɛ/	éteindrions /e.tɛ̃.dʁi.jɔ̃/	éteindriez /e.tɛ̃.dʁi.je/	éteindraient /e.tɛ̃.dʁɛ/
(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	éteigne /e.tɛɲ/	éteignes /e.tɛɲ/	éteigne /e.tɛɲ/	éteignions /e.tɛ.ɲjɔ̃/ or /e.te.ɲjɔ̃/	éteigniez /e.tɛ.ɲje/ or /e.te.ɲje/	éteignent /e.tɛɲ/
	imperfect2	éteignisse /e.tɛ.ɲis/ or /e.te.ɲis/	éteignisses /e.tɛ.ɲis/ or /e.te.ɲis/	éteignît /e.tɛ.ɲi/ or /e.te.ɲi/	éteignissions /e.tɛ.ɲi.sjɔ̃/ or /e.te.ɲi.sjɔ̃/	éteignissiez /e.tɛ.ɲi.sje/ or /e.te.ɲi.sje/	éteignissent /e.tɛ.ɲis/ or /e.te.ɲis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	éteins /e.tɛ̃/	—	éteignons /e.tɛ.ɲɔ̃/ or /e.te.ɲɔ̃/	éteignez /e.tɛ.ɲe/ or /e.te.ɲe/	—
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).

Antonyms

• allumer

Related terms

• éteint
• extinction
• distinguer

Further reading

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