abréagir

See also: ab-reagir

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.bʁe.a.ʒiʁ/

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Verb

abréagir

1. (transitive, intransitive, psychoanalysis) to undergo abreaction; to abreact

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 abréagir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	abréagir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	abréagissant /a.bʁe.a.ʒi.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		abréagi /a.bʁe.a.ʒi/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	abréagis /a.bʁe.a.ʒi/	abréagis /a.bʁe.a.ʒi/	abréagit /a.bʁe.a.ʒi/	abréagissons /a.bʁe.a.ʒi.sɔ̃/	abréagissez /a.bʁe.a.ʒi.se/	abréagissent /a.bʁe.a.ʒis/
	imperfect	abréagissais /a.bʁe.a.ʒi.sɛ/	abréagissais /a.bʁe.a.ʒi.sɛ/	abréagissait /a.bʁe.a.ʒi.sɛ/	abréagissions /a.bʁe.a.ʒi.sjɔ̃/	abréagissiez /a.bʁe.a.ʒi.sje/	abréagissaient /a.bʁe.a.ʒi.sɛ/
	past historic2	abréagis /a.bʁe.a.ʒi/	abréagis /a.bʁe.a.ʒi/	abréagit /a.bʁe.a.ʒi/	abréagîmes /a.bʁe.a.ʒim/	abréagîtes /a.bʁe.a.ʒit/	abréagirent /a.bʁe.a.ʒiʁ/
	future	abréagirai /a.bʁe.a.ʒi.ʁe/	abréagiras /a.bʁe.a.ʒi.ʁa/	abréagira /a.bʁe.a.ʒi.ʁa/	abréagirons /a.bʁe.a.ʒi.ʁɔ̃/	abréagirez /a.bʁe.a.ʒi.ʁe/	abréagiront /a.bʁe.a.ʒi.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	abréagirais /a.bʁe.a.ʒi.ʁɛ/	abréagirais /a.bʁe.a.ʒi.ʁɛ/	abréagirait /a.bʁe.a.ʒi.ʁɛ/	abréagirions /a.bʁe.a.ʒi.ʁjɔ̃/	abréagiriez /a.bʁe.a.ʒi.ʁje/	abréagiraient /a.bʁe.a.ʒi.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	abréagisse /a.bʁe.a.ʒis/	abréagisses /a.bʁe.a.ʒis/	abréagisse /a.bʁe.a.ʒis/	abréagissions /a.bʁe.a.ʒi.sjɔ̃/	abréagissiez /a.bʁe.a.ʒi.sje/	abréagissent /a.bʁe.a.ʒis/
	imperfect2	abréagisse /a.bʁe.a.ʒis/	abréagisses /a.bʁe.a.ʒis/	abréagît /a.bʁe.a.ʒi/	abréagissions /a.bʁe.a.ʒi.sjɔ̃/	abréagissiez /a.bʁe.a.ʒi.sje/	abréagissent /a.bʁe.a.ʒis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	abréagis /a.bʁe.a.ʒi/	—	abréagissons /a.bʁe.a.ʒi.sɔ̃/	abréagissez /a.bʁe.a.ʒi.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).

Further reading

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