agglutiner

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin agglūtināre (“to glue, paste, solder or cement to something”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.ɡly.ti.ne/

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Verb

agglutiner

1. (transitive) to paste (together)
2. (transitive, linguistics) to agglutinate

Conjugation

Conjugation of agglutiner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	agglutiner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	agglutinant /a.ɡly.ti.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		agglutiné /a.ɡly.ti.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	agglutine /a.ɡly.tin/	agglutines /a.ɡly.tin/	agglutine /a.ɡly.tin/	agglutinons /a.ɡly.ti.nɔ̃/	agglutinez /a.ɡly.ti.ne/	agglutinent /a.ɡly.tin/
	imperfect	agglutinais /a.ɡly.ti.nɛ/	agglutinais /a.ɡly.ti.nɛ/	agglutinait /a.ɡly.ti.nɛ/	agglutinions /a.ɡly.ti.njɔ̃/	agglutiniez /a.ɡly.ti.nje/	agglutinaient /a.ɡly.ti.nɛ/
	past historic2	agglutinai /a.ɡly.ti.ne/	agglutinas /a.ɡly.ti.na/	agglutina /a.ɡly.ti.na/	agglutinâmes /a.ɡly.ti.nam/	agglutinâtes /a.ɡly.ti.nat/	agglutinèrent /a.ɡly.ti.nɛʁ/
	future	agglutinerai /a.ɡly.tin.ʁe/	agglutineras /a.ɡly.tin.ʁa/	agglutinera /a.ɡly.tin.ʁa/	agglutinerons /a.ɡly.tin.ʁɔ̃/	agglutinerez /a.ɡly.tin.ʁe/	agglutineront /a.ɡly.tin.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	agglutinerais /a.ɡly.tin.ʁɛ/	agglutinerais /a.ɡly.tin.ʁɛ/	agglutinerait /a.ɡly.tin.ʁɛ/	agglutinerions /a.ɡly.ti.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	agglutineriez /a.ɡly.ti.nə.ʁje/	agglutineraient /a.ɡly.tin.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	agglutine /a.ɡly.tin/	agglutines /a.ɡly.tin/	agglutine /a.ɡly.tin/	agglutinions /a.ɡly.ti.njɔ̃/	agglutiniez /a.ɡly.ti.nje/	agglutinent /a.ɡly.tin/
	imperfect2	agglutinasse /a.ɡly.ti.nas/	agglutinasses /a.ɡly.ti.nas/	agglutinât /a.ɡly.ti.na/	agglutinassions /a.ɡly.ti.na.sjɔ̃/	agglutinassiez /a.ɡly.ti.na.sje/	agglutinassent /a.ɡly.ti.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	agglutine /a.ɡly.tin/	—	agglutinons /a.ɡly.ti.nɔ̃/	agglutinez /a.ɡly.ti.ne/	—
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

• agglutinant
• agglutinateur
• agglutinatif
• agglutination
• agglutineux

Further reading

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

Latin

Verb

agglūtiner

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of agglūtinō