envahir
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French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old French envaïr, from Vulgar Latin *invādīre, from Latin invādere.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]envahir
- to invade
- Les forces américaines ont envahi le territoire iraquien.
- The American Forces have invaded the Iraqi territory.
- to stretch, to overgrow, to fill
- to come over (someone) or wash over (someone), as a feeling
- Une immense solitude t’envahit.
- A tremendous loneliness comes over you.
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 envahir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | envahir | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | envahissant /ɑ̃.va.i.sɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | envahi /ɑ̃.va.i/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | envahis /ɑ̃.va.i/ |
envahis /ɑ̃.va.i/ |
envahit /ɑ̃.va.i/ |
envahissons /ɑ̃.va.i.sɔ̃/ |
envahissez /ɑ̃.va.i.se/ |
envahissent /ɑ̃.va.is/ |
imperfect | envahissais /ɑ̃.va.i.sɛ/ |
envahissais /ɑ̃.va.i.sɛ/ |
envahissait /ɑ̃.va.i.sɛ/ |
envahissions /ɑ̃.va.i.sjɔ̃/ |
envahissiez /ɑ̃.va.i.sje/ |
envahissaient /ɑ̃.va.i.sɛ/ | |
past historic2 | envahis /ɑ̃.va.i/ |
envahis /ɑ̃.va.i/ |
envahit /ɑ̃.va.i/ |
envahîmes /ɑ̃.va.im/ |
envahîtes /ɑ̃.va.it/ |
envahirent /ɑ̃.va.iʁ/ | |
future | envahirai /ɑ̃.va.i.ʁe/ |
envahiras /ɑ̃.va.i.ʁa/ |
envahira /ɑ̃.va.i.ʁa/ |
envahirons /ɑ̃.va.i.ʁɔ̃/ |
envahirez /ɑ̃.va.i.ʁe/ |
envahiront /ɑ̃.va.i.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | envahirais /ɑ̃.va.i.ʁɛ/ |
envahirais /ɑ̃.va.i.ʁɛ/ |
envahirait /ɑ̃.va.i.ʁɛ/ |
envahirions /ɑ̃.va.i.ʁjɔ̃/ |
envahiriez /ɑ̃.va.i.ʁje/ |
envahiraient /ɑ̃.va.i.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 | envahisse /ɑ̃.va.is/ |
envahisses /ɑ̃.va.is/ |
envahisse /ɑ̃.va.is/ |
envahissions /ɑ̃.va.i.sjɔ̃/ |
envahissiez /ɑ̃.va.i.sje/ |
envahissent /ɑ̃.va.is/ |
imperfect2 | envahisse /ɑ̃.va.is/ |
envahisses /ɑ̃.va.is/ |
envahît /ɑ̃.va.i/ |
envahissions /ɑ̃.va.i.sjɔ̃/ |
envahissiez /ɑ̃.va.i.sje/ |
envahissent /ɑ̃.va.is/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | envahis /ɑ̃.va.i/ |
— | envahissons /ɑ̃.va.i.sɔ̃/ |
envahissez /ɑ̃.va.i.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). |
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “envahir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
[edit]Middle French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Verb
[edit]envahir
- to invade
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