influer

French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin īnfluō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.fly.e/

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Verb

influer

1. (intransitive) to influence (to exert an influence upon) [with sur ‘someone’]

   Near-synonym: influencer

Conjugation

Conjugation of influer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	influer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	influant /ɛ̃.fly.ɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		influé /ɛ̃.fly.e/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	influe /ɛ̃.fly/	influes /ɛ̃.fly/	influe /ɛ̃.fly/	influons /ɛ̃.fly.ɔ̃/	influez /ɛ̃.fly.e/	influent /ɛ̃.fly/
	imperfect	influais /ɛ̃.fly.ɛ/	influais /ɛ̃.fly.ɛ/	influait /ɛ̃.fly.ɛ/	influions /ɛ̃.fly.jɔ̃/	influiez /ɛ̃.fly.je/	influaient /ɛ̃.fly.ɛ/
	past historic2	influai /ɛ̃.fly.e/	influas /ɛ̃.fly.a/	influa /ɛ̃.fly.a/	influâmes /ɛ̃.fly.am/	influâtes /ɛ̃.fly.at/	influèrent /ɛ̃.fly.ɛʁ/
	future	influerai /ɛ̃.fly.ʁe/	influeras /ɛ̃.fly.ʁa/	influera /ɛ̃.fly.ʁa/	influerons /ɛ̃.fly.ʁɔ̃/	influerez /ɛ̃.fly.ʁe/	influeront /ɛ̃.fly.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	influerais /ɛ̃.fly.ʁɛ/	influerais /ɛ̃.fly.ʁɛ/	influerait /ɛ̃.fly.ʁɛ/	influerions /ɛ̃.fly.ʁjɔ̃/	influeriez /ɛ̃.fly.ʁje/	influeraient /ɛ̃.fly.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	influe /ɛ̃.fly/	influes /ɛ̃.fly/	influe /ɛ̃.fly/	influions /ɛ̃.fly.jɔ̃/	influiez /ɛ̃.fly.je/	influent /ɛ̃.fly/
	imperfect2	influasse /ɛ̃.fly.as/	influasses /ɛ̃.fly.as/	influât /ɛ̃.fly.a/	influassions /ɛ̃.fly.a.sjɔ̃/	influassiez /ɛ̃.fly.a.sje/	influassent /ɛ̃.fly.as/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	influe /ɛ̃.fly/	—	influons /ɛ̃.fly.ɔ̃/	influez /ɛ̃.fly.e/	—
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).

Related terms

• influence

Further reading

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

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Verb

influer

1. imperative of influere