assouplir
Appearance
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]assouplir
- (transitive) to soften (make softer)
- (transitive) to make more supple
- (transitive) to relax (of e.g. a law or rule make less strict)
- (reflexive) to soften up, get soft (become softer)
- (reflexive) to become more supple
- (reflexive) to become relaxed, relax (become less strict)
- (reflexive) to limber up
Conjugation
[edit]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 assouplir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | assouplir | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | assouplissant /a.su.pli.sɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | assoupli /a.su.pli/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | assouplis /a.su.pli/ |
assouplis /a.su.pli/ |
assouplit /a.su.pli/ |
assouplissons /a.su.pli.sɔ̃/ |
assouplissez /a.su.pli.se/ |
assouplissent /a.su.plis/ |
imperfect | assouplissais /a.su.pli.sɛ/ |
assouplissais /a.su.pli.sɛ/ |
assouplissait /a.su.pli.sɛ/ |
assouplissions /a.su.pli.sjɔ̃/ |
assouplissiez /a.su.pli.sje/ |
assouplissaient /a.su.pli.sɛ/ | |
past historic2 | assouplis /a.su.pli/ |
assouplis /a.su.pli/ |
assouplit /a.su.pli/ |
assouplîmes /a.su.plim/ |
assouplîtes /a.su.plit/ |
assouplirent /a.su.pliʁ/ | |
future | assouplirai /a.su.pli.ʁe/ |
assoupliras /a.su.pli.ʁa/ |
assouplira /a.su.pli.ʁa/ |
assouplirons /a.su.pli.ʁɔ̃/ |
assouplirez /a.su.pli.ʁe/ |
assoupliront /a.su.pli.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | assouplirais /a.su.pli.ʁɛ/ |
assouplirais /a.su.pli.ʁɛ/ |
assouplirait /a.su.pli.ʁɛ/ |
assouplirions /a.su.pli.ʁjɔ̃/ |
assoupliriez /a.su.pli.ʁje/ |
assoupliraient /a.su.pli.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 | assouplisse /a.su.plis/ |
assouplisses /a.su.plis/ |
assouplisse /a.su.plis/ |
assouplissions /a.su.pli.sjɔ̃/ |
assouplissiez /a.su.pli.sje/ |
assouplissent /a.su.plis/ |
imperfect2 | assouplisse /a.su.plis/ |
assouplisses /a.su.plis/ |
assouplît /a.su.pli/ |
assouplissions /a.su.pli.sjɔ̃/ |
assouplissiez /a.su.pli.sje/ |
assouplissent /a.su.plis/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | assouplis /a.su.pli/ |
— | assouplissons /a.su.pli.sɔ̃/ |
assouplissez /a.su.pli.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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). |
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “assouplir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.