alanguir

French

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -iʁ

Verb

alanguir

1. to cause to become languid
2. (reflexive, s'alanguir) to become languid

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 alanguir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	alanguir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	alanguissant /a.lɑ̃.ɡi.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		alangui /a.lɑ̃.ɡi/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	alanguis /a.lɑ̃.ɡi/	alanguis /a.lɑ̃.ɡi/	alanguit /a.lɑ̃.ɡi/	alanguissons /a.lɑ̃.ɡi.sɔ̃/	alanguissez /a.lɑ̃.ɡi.se/	alanguissent /a.lɑ̃.ɡis/
	imperfect	alanguissais /a.lɑ̃.ɡi.sɛ/	alanguissais /a.lɑ̃.ɡi.sɛ/	alanguissait /a.lɑ̃.ɡi.sɛ/	alanguissions /a.lɑ̃.ɡi.sjɔ̃/	alanguissiez /a.lɑ̃.ɡi.sje/	alanguissaient /a.lɑ̃.ɡi.sɛ/
	past historic2	alanguis /a.lɑ̃.ɡi/	alanguis /a.lɑ̃.ɡi/	alanguit /a.lɑ̃.ɡi/	alanguîmes /a.lɑ̃.ɡim/	alanguîtes /a.lɑ̃.ɡit/	alanguirent /a.lɑ̃.ɡiʁ/
	future	alanguirai /a.lɑ̃.ɡi.ʁe/	alanguiras /a.lɑ̃.ɡi.ʁa/	alanguira /a.lɑ̃.ɡi.ʁa/	alanguirons /a.lɑ̃.ɡi.ʁɔ̃/	alanguirez /a.lɑ̃.ɡi.ʁe/	alanguiront /a.lɑ̃.ɡi.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	alanguirais /a.lɑ̃.ɡi.ʁɛ/	alanguirais /a.lɑ̃.ɡi.ʁɛ/	alanguirait /a.lɑ̃.ɡi.ʁɛ/	alanguirions /a.lɑ̃.ɡi.ʁjɔ̃/	alanguiriez /a.lɑ̃.ɡi.ʁje/	alanguiraient /a.lɑ̃.ɡi.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	alanguisse /a.lɑ̃.ɡis/	alanguisses /a.lɑ̃.ɡis/	alanguisse /a.lɑ̃.ɡis/	alanguissions /a.lɑ̃.ɡi.sjɔ̃/	alanguissiez /a.lɑ̃.ɡi.sje/	alanguissent /a.lɑ̃.ɡis/
	imperfect2	alanguisse /a.lɑ̃.ɡis/	alanguisses /a.lɑ̃.ɡis/	alanguît /a.lɑ̃.ɡi/	alanguissions /a.lɑ̃.ɡi.sjɔ̃/	alanguissiez /a.lɑ̃.ɡi.sje/	alanguissent /a.lɑ̃.ɡis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	alanguis /a.lɑ̃.ɡi/	—	alanguissons /a.lɑ̃.ɡi.sɔ̃/	alanguissez /a.lɑ̃.ɡi.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

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