appesantir

French

Etymology

From pesant.

Pronunciation

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Verb

appesantir

1. (transitive) to weigh down
2. to dull
3. (reflexive, s'appesantir sur) to condemn
4. (reflexive) to get bogged down (with)

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 appesantir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	appesantir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	appesantissant /ap.zɑ̃.ti.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		appesanti /ap.zɑ̃.ti/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	appesantis /ap.zɑ̃.ti/	appesantis /ap.zɑ̃.ti/	appesantit /ap.zɑ̃.ti/	appesantissons /ap.zɑ̃.ti.sɔ̃/	appesantissez /ap.zɑ̃.ti.se/	appesantissent /ap.zɑ̃.tis/
	imperfect	appesantissais /ap.zɑ̃.ti.sɛ/	appesantissais /ap.zɑ̃.ti.sɛ/	appesantissait /ap.zɑ̃.ti.sɛ/	appesantissions /ap.zɑ̃.ti.sjɔ̃/	appesantissiez /ap.zɑ̃.ti.sje/	appesantissaient /ap.zɑ̃.ti.sɛ/
	past historic2	appesantis /ap.zɑ̃.ti/	appesantis /ap.zɑ̃.ti/	appesantit /ap.zɑ̃.ti/	appesantîmes /ap.zɑ̃.tim/	appesantîtes /ap.zɑ̃.tit/	appesantirent /ap.zɑ̃.tiʁ/
	future	appesantirai /ap.zɑ̃.ti.ʁe/	appesantiras /ap.zɑ̃.ti.ʁa/	appesantira /ap.zɑ̃.ti.ʁa/	appesantirons /ap.zɑ̃.ti.ʁɔ̃/	appesantirez /ap.zɑ̃.ti.ʁe/	appesantiront /ap.zɑ̃.ti.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	appesantirais /ap.zɑ̃.ti.ʁɛ/	appesantirais /ap.zɑ̃.ti.ʁɛ/	appesantirait /ap.zɑ̃.ti.ʁɛ/	appesantirions /ap.zɑ̃.ti.ʁjɔ̃/	appesantiriez /ap.zɑ̃.ti.ʁje/	appesantiraient /ap.zɑ̃.ti.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	appesantisse /ap.zɑ̃.tis/	appesantisses /ap.zɑ̃.tis/	appesantisse /ap.zɑ̃.tis/	appesantissions /ap.zɑ̃.ti.sjɔ̃/	appesantissiez /ap.zɑ̃.ti.sje/	appesantissent /ap.zɑ̃.tis/
	imperfect2	appesantisse /ap.zɑ̃.tis/	appesantisses /ap.zɑ̃.tis/	appesantît /ap.zɑ̃.ti/	appesantissions /ap.zɑ̃.ti.sjɔ̃/	appesantissiez /ap.zɑ̃.ti.sje/	appesantissent /ap.zɑ̃.tis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	appesantis /ap.zɑ̃.ti/	—	appesantissons /ap.zɑ̃.ti.sɔ̃/	appesantissez /ap.zɑ̃.ti.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

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