lénifier

French

Pronunciation

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Verb

lénifier

1. to assuage; to lenify

Conjugation

Conjugation of lénifier (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	lénifier
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	lénifiant /le.ni.fjɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		lénifié /le.ni.fje/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	lénifie /le.ni.fi/	lénifies /le.ni.fi/	lénifie /le.ni.fi/	lénifions /le.ni.fjɔ̃/	lénifiez /le.ni.fje/	lénifient /le.ni.fi/
	imperfect	lénifiais /le.ni.fjɛ/	lénifiais /le.ni.fjɛ/	lénifiait /le.ni.fjɛ/	lénifiions /le.ni.fi.jɔ̃/	lénifiiez /le.ni.fi.je/	lénifiaient /le.ni.fjɛ/
	past historic2	lénifiai /le.ni.fje/	lénifias /le.ni.fja/	lénifia /le.ni.fja/	lénifiâmes /le.ni.fjam/	lénifiâtes /le.ni.fjat/	lénifièrent /le.ni.fjɛʁ/
	future	lénifierai /le.ni.fi.ʁe/	lénifieras /le.ni.fi.ʁa/	lénifiera /le.ni.fi.ʁa/	lénifierons /le.ni.fi.ʁɔ̃/	lénifierez /le.ni.fi.ʁe/	lénifieront /le.ni.fi.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	lénifierais /le.ni.fi.ʁɛ/	lénifierais /le.ni.fi.ʁɛ/	lénifierait /le.ni.fi.ʁɛ/	lénifierions /le.ni.fi.ʁjɔ̃/	lénifieriez /le.ni.fi.ʁje/	lénifieraient /le.ni.fi.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	lénifie /le.ni.fi/	lénifies /le.ni.fi/	lénifie /le.ni.fi/	lénifiions /le.ni.fi.jɔ̃/	lénifiiez /le.ni.fi.je/	lénifient /le.ni.fi/
	imperfect2	lénifiasse /le.ni.fjas/	lénifiasses /le.ni.fjas/	lénifiât /le.ni.fja/	lénifiassions /le.ni.fja.sjɔ̃/	lénifiassiez /le.ni.fja.sje/	lénifiassent /le.ni.fjas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	lénifie /le.ni.fi/	—	lénifions /le.ni.fjɔ̃/	lénifiez /le.ni.fje/	—
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

• lénifiant
• lénitif

Further reading

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