affadir
French
[edit]Pronunciation
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Verb
[edit]affadir
- (transitive) to make tasteless, insipid or bland
Conjugation
[edit]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 affadir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | affadir | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | affadissant /a.fa.di.sɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | affadi /a.fa.di/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | affadis /a.fa.di/ |
affadis /a.fa.di/ |
affadit /a.fa.di/ |
affadissons /a.fa.di.sɔ̃/ |
affadissez /a.fa.di.se/ |
affadissent /a.fa.dis/ |
| imperfect | affadissais /a.fa.di.sɛ/ |
affadissais /a.fa.di.sɛ/ |
affadissait /a.fa.di.sɛ/ |
affadissions /a.fa.di.sjɔ̃/ |
affadissiez /a.fa.di.sje/ |
affadissaient /a.fa.di.sɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | affadis /a.fa.di/ |
affadis /a.fa.di/ |
affadit /a.fa.di/ |
affadîmes /a.fa.dim/ |
affadîtes /a.fa.dit/ |
affadirent /a.fa.diʁ/ | |
| future | affadirai /a.fa.di.ʁe/ |
affadiras /a.fa.di.ʁa/ |
affadira /a.fa.di.ʁa/ |
affadirons /a.fa.di.ʁɔ̃/ |
affadirez /a.fa.di.ʁe/ |
affadiront /a.fa.di.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | affadirais /a.fa.di.ʁɛ/ |
affadirais /a.fa.di.ʁɛ/ |
affadirait /a.fa.di.ʁɛ/ |
affadirions /a.fa.di.ʁjɔ̃/ |
affadiriez /a.fa.di.ʁje/ |
affadiraient /a.fa.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 | affadisse /a.fa.dis/ |
affadisses /a.fa.dis/ |
affadisse /a.fa.dis/ |
affadissions /a.fa.di.sjɔ̃/ |
affadissiez /a.fa.di.sje/ |
affadissent /a.fa.dis/ |
| imperfect2 | affadisse /a.fa.dis/ |
affadisses /a.fa.dis/ |
affadît /a.fa.di/ |
affadissions /a.fa.di.sjɔ̃/ |
affadissiez /a.fa.di.sje/ |
affadissent /a.fa.dis/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | affadis /a.fa.di/ |
— | affadissons /a.fa.di.sɔ̃/ |
affadissez /a.fa.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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “affadir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.