assortir

French

Etymology

From a- +‎ sortir.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.sɔʁ.tiʁ/

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Verb

assortir

1. (transitive) to match, match up
2. (transitive, of people) to pair up
3. (transitive) to supply, stock up; to hook (someone) up with
4. (reflexive) to match

   Ton t-shirt s’assortit à ton pantalon. ― Your teeshirt matches your trousers.

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 assortir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	assortir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	assortissant /a.sɔʁ.ti.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		assorti /a.sɔʁ.ti/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	assortis /a.sɔʁ.ti/	assortis /a.sɔʁ.ti/	assortit /a.sɔʁ.ti/	assortissons /a.sɔʁ.ti.sɔ̃/	assortissez /a.sɔʁ.ti.se/	assortissent /a.sɔʁ.tis/
	imperfect	assortissais /a.sɔʁ.ti.sɛ/	assortissais /a.sɔʁ.ti.sɛ/	assortissait /a.sɔʁ.ti.sɛ/	assortissions /a.sɔʁ.ti.sjɔ̃/	assortissiez /a.sɔʁ.ti.sje/	assortissaient /a.sɔʁ.ti.sɛ/
	past historic2	assortis /a.sɔʁ.ti/	assortis /a.sɔʁ.ti/	assortit /a.sɔʁ.ti/	assortîmes /a.sɔʁ.tim/	assortîtes /a.sɔʁ.tit/	assortirent /a.sɔʁ.tiʁ/
	future	assortirai /a.sɔʁ.ti.ʁe/	assortiras /a.sɔʁ.ti.ʁa/	assortira /a.sɔʁ.ti.ʁa/	assortirons /a.sɔʁ.ti.ʁɔ̃/	assortirez /a.sɔʁ.ti.ʁe/	assortiront /a.sɔʁ.ti.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	assortirais /a.sɔʁ.ti.ʁɛ/	assortirais /a.sɔʁ.ti.ʁɛ/	assortirait /a.sɔʁ.ti.ʁɛ/	assortirions /a.sɔʁ.ti.ʁjɔ̃/	assortiriez /a.sɔʁ.ti.ʁje/	assortiraient /a.sɔʁ.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	assortisse /a.sɔʁ.tis/	assortisses /a.sɔʁ.tis/	assortisse /a.sɔʁ.tis/	assortissions /a.sɔʁ.ti.sjɔ̃/	assortissiez /a.sɔʁ.ti.sje/	assortissent /a.sɔʁ.tis/
	imperfect2	assortisse /a.sɔʁ.tis/	assortisses /a.sɔʁ.tis/	assortît /a.sɔʁ.ti/	assortissions /a.sɔʁ.ti.sjɔ̃/	assortissiez /a.sɔʁ.ti.sje/	assortissent /a.sɔʁ.tis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	assortis /a.sɔʁ.ti/	—	assortissons /a.sɔʁ.ti.sɔ̃/	assortissez /a.sɔʁ.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).

Derived terms

• assortissable
• rassortir

Related terms

• assortiment

Further reading

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