abasourdir

French

Etymology

Corruption of ab + assourdir.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.ba.zuʁ.diʁ/, (proscribed but common) /a.ba.suʁ.diʁ/

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Verb

abasourdir

1. to dumbfound; to baffle; to astonish
2. to stun or daze with a loud sound

Usage notes

• It is fairly uncommon to conjugate this verb. It is usually used as an adjectival part participle or in compound forms.

Conjugation

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-.

Conjugation of abasourdir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	abasourdir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	abasourdissant /a.ba.zuʁ.di.sɑ̃/ or /a.ba.suʁ.di.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		abasourdi /a.ba.zuʁ.di/ or /a.ba.suʁ.di/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	abasourdis /a.ba.zuʁ.di/ or /a.ba.suʁ.di/	abasourdis /a.ba.zuʁ.di/ or /a.ba.suʁ.di/	abasourdit /a.ba.zuʁ.di/ or /a.ba.suʁ.di/	abasourdissons /a.ba.zuʁ.di.sɔ̃/ or /a.ba.suʁ.di.sɔ̃/	abasourdissez /a.ba.zuʁ.di.se/ or /a.ba.suʁ.di.se/	abasourdissent /a.ba.zuʁ.dis/ or /a.ba.suʁ.dis/
	imperfect	abasourdissais /a.ba.zuʁ.di.sɛ/ or /a.ba.suʁ.di.sɛ/	abasourdissais /a.ba.zuʁ.di.sɛ/ or /a.ba.suʁ.di.sɛ/	abasourdissait /a.ba.zuʁ.di.sɛ/ or /a.ba.suʁ.di.sɛ/	abasourdissions /a.ba.zuʁ.di.sjɔ̃/ or /a.ba.suʁ.di.sjɔ̃/	abasourdissiez /a.ba.zuʁ.di.sje/ or /a.ba.suʁ.di.sje/	abasourdissaient /a.ba.zuʁ.di.sɛ/ or /a.ba.suʁ.di.sɛ/
	past historic2	abasourdis /a.ba.zuʁ.di/ or /a.ba.suʁ.di/	abasourdis /a.ba.zuʁ.di/ or /a.ba.suʁ.di/	abasourdit /a.ba.zuʁ.di/ or /a.ba.suʁ.di/	abasourdîmes /a.ba.zuʁ.dim/ or /a.ba.suʁ.dim/	abasourdîtes /a.ba.zuʁ.dit/ or /a.ba.suʁ.dit/	abasourdirent /a.ba.zuʁ.diʁ/ or /a.ba.suʁ.diʁ/
	future	abasourdirai /a.ba.zuʁ.di.ʁe/ or /a.ba.suʁ.di.ʁe/	abasourdiras /a.ba.zuʁ.di.ʁa/ or /a.ba.suʁ.di.ʁa/	abasourdira /a.ba.zuʁ.di.ʁa/ or /a.ba.suʁ.di.ʁa/	abasourdirons /a.ba.zuʁ.di.ʁɔ̃/ or /a.ba.suʁ.di.ʁɔ̃/	abasourdirez /a.ba.zuʁ.di.ʁe/ or /a.ba.suʁ.di.ʁe/	abasourdiront /a.ba.zuʁ.di.ʁɔ̃/ or /a.ba.suʁ.di.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	abasourdirais /a.ba.zuʁ.di.ʁɛ/ or /a.ba.suʁ.di.ʁɛ/	abasourdirais /a.ba.zuʁ.di.ʁɛ/ or /a.ba.suʁ.di.ʁɛ/	abasourdirait /a.ba.zuʁ.di.ʁɛ/ or /a.ba.suʁ.di.ʁɛ/	abasourdirions /a.ba.zuʁ.di.ʁjɔ̃/ or /a.ba.suʁ.di.ʁjɔ̃/	abasourdiriez /a.ba.zuʁ.di.ʁje/ or /a.ba.suʁ.di.ʁje/	abasourdiraient /a.ba.zuʁ.di.ʁɛ/ or /a.ba.suʁ.di.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	abasourdisse /a.ba.zuʁ.dis/ or /a.ba.suʁ.dis/	abasourdisses /a.ba.zuʁ.dis/ or /a.ba.suʁ.dis/	abasourdisse /a.ba.zuʁ.dis/ or /a.ba.suʁ.dis/	abasourdissions /a.ba.zuʁ.di.sjɔ̃/ or /a.ba.suʁ.di.sjɔ̃/	abasourdissiez /a.ba.zuʁ.di.sje/ or /a.ba.suʁ.di.sje/	abasourdissent /a.ba.zuʁ.dis/ or /a.ba.suʁ.dis/
	imperfect2	abasourdisse /a.ba.zuʁ.dis/ or /a.ba.suʁ.dis/	abasourdisses /a.ba.zuʁ.dis/ or /a.ba.suʁ.dis/	abasourdît /a.ba.zuʁ.di/ or /a.ba.suʁ.di/	abasourdissions /a.ba.zuʁ.di.sjɔ̃/ or /a.ba.suʁ.di.sjɔ̃/	abasourdissiez /a.ba.zuʁ.di.sje/ or /a.ba.suʁ.di.sje/	abasourdissent /a.ba.zuʁ.dis/ or /a.ba.suʁ.dis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	abasourdis /a.ba.zuʁ.di/ or /a.ba.suʁ.di/	—	abasourdissons /a.ba.zuʁ.di.sɔ̃/ or /a.ba.suʁ.di.sɔ̃/	abasourdissez /a.ba.zuʁ.di.se/ or /a.ba.suʁ.di.se/	—
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

• abasourdi
• abasourdissant
• abasourdissement

Further reading

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