assombrir

French

Etymology

From sombre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.sɔ̃.bʁiʁ/

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Verb

assombrir

1. to darken, make gloomy

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 assombrir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	assombrir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	assombrissant /a.sɔ̃.bʁi.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		assombri /a.sɔ̃.bʁi/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	assombris /a.sɔ̃.bʁi/	assombris /a.sɔ̃.bʁi/	assombrit /a.sɔ̃.bʁi/	assombrissons /a.sɔ̃.bʁi.sɔ̃/	assombrissez /a.sɔ̃.bʁi.se/	assombrissent /a.sɔ̃.bʁis/
	imperfect	assombrissais /a.sɔ̃.bʁi.sɛ/	assombrissais /a.sɔ̃.bʁi.sɛ/	assombrissait /a.sɔ̃.bʁi.sɛ/	assombrissions /a.sɔ̃.bʁi.sjɔ̃/	assombrissiez /a.sɔ̃.bʁi.sje/	assombrissaient /a.sɔ̃.bʁi.sɛ/
	past historic2	assombris /a.sɔ̃.bʁi/	assombris /a.sɔ̃.bʁi/	assombrit /a.sɔ̃.bʁi/	assombrîmes /a.sɔ̃.bʁim/	assombrîtes /a.sɔ̃.bʁit/	assombrirent /a.sɔ̃.bʁiʁ/
	future	assombrirai /a.sɔ̃.bʁi.ʁe/	assombriras /a.sɔ̃.bʁi.ʁa/	assombrira /a.sɔ̃.bʁi.ʁa/	assombrirons /a.sɔ̃.bʁi.ʁɔ̃/	assombrirez /a.sɔ̃.bʁi.ʁe/	assombriront /a.sɔ̃.bʁi.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	assombrirais /a.sɔ̃.bʁi.ʁɛ/	assombrirais /a.sɔ̃.bʁi.ʁɛ/	assombrirait /a.sɔ̃.bʁi.ʁɛ/	assombririons /a.sɔ̃.bʁi.ʁjɔ̃/	assombririez /a.sɔ̃.bʁi.ʁje/	assombriraient /a.sɔ̃.bʁi.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	assombrisse /a.sɔ̃.bʁis/	assombrisses /a.sɔ̃.bʁis/	assombrisse /a.sɔ̃.bʁis/	assombrissions /a.sɔ̃.bʁi.sjɔ̃/	assombrissiez /a.sɔ̃.bʁi.sje/	assombrissent /a.sɔ̃.bʁis/
	imperfect2	assombrisse /a.sɔ̃.bʁis/	assombrisses /a.sɔ̃.bʁis/	assombrît /a.sɔ̃.bʁi/	assombrissions /a.sɔ̃.bʁi.sjɔ̃/	assombrissiez /a.sɔ̃.bʁi.sje/	assombrissent /a.sɔ̃.bʁis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	assombris /a.sɔ̃.bʁi/	—	assombrissons /a.sɔ̃.bʁi.sɔ̃/	assombrissez /a.sɔ̃.bʁi.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

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