absoudre

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French absoudre, assoudre, from Latin absolvere (“to absolve”). The forms with -lv- are of learned origin; spoken Middle French had developed analogical forms with -oud-, which are attested until the 18th century (absoudons, absoudait etc.). The -b- must be learned as well, although it appeared very early on.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ap.sudʁ/

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Verb

absoudre

1. to absolve

Conjugation

The imperfect subjonctive forms are absolusse, absolusses, absolût, absolussions, absolussiez, absolussent

Conjugation of absoudre (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	absoudre
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	absolvant /ap.sɔl.vɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		absous /ap.su/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	absous /ap.su/	absous /ap.su/	absout /ap.su/	absolvons /ap.sɔl.vɔ̃/	absolvez /ap.sɔl.ve/	absolvent /ap.sɔlv/
	imperfect	absolvais /ap.sɔl.vɛ/	absolvais /ap.sɔl.vɛ/	absolvait /ap.sɔl.vɛ/	absolvions /ap.sɔl.vjɔ̃/	absolviez /ap.sɔl.vje/	absolvaient /ap.sɔl.vɛ/
	past historic2	absolus /ap.sɔ.ly/	absolus /ap.sɔ.ly/	absolut /ap.sɔ.ly/	absolûmes /ap.sɔ.lym/	absolûtes /ap.sɔ.lyt/	absolurent /ap.sɔ.lyʁ/
	future	absoudrai /ap.su.dʁe/	absoudras /ap.su.dʁa/	absoudra /ap.su.dʁa/	absoudrons /ap.su.dʁɔ̃/	absoudrez /ap.su.dʁe/	absoudront /ap.su.dʁɔ̃/
	conditional	absoudrais /ap.su.dʁɛ/	absoudrais /ap.su.dʁɛ/	absoudrait /ap.su.dʁɛ/	absoudrions /ap.su.dʁi.jɔ̃/	absoudriez /ap.su.dʁi.je/	absoudraient /ap.su.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	absolve /ap.sɔlv/	absolves /ap.sɔlv/	absolve /ap.sɔlv/	absolvions /ap.sɔl.vjɔ̃/	absolviez /ap.sɔl.vje/	absolvent /ap.sɔlv/
	imperfect2	—	—	—	—	—	—
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	absous /ap.su/	—	absolvons /ap.sɔl.vɔ̃/	absolvez /ap.sɔl.ve/	—
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).

Related terms

• absolu
• absolution

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• bouderas, déboursa