néantir
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Coined by Jean-Paul Sartre. From néant + -ir. Compare anéantir, its derivation.
Verb
[edit]néantir
- (transitive) to nihilate
- (transitive) to negate
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 néantir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | néantir | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | néantissant /ne.ɑ̃.ti.sɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | néanti /ne.ɑ̃.ti/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | néantis /ne.ɑ̃.ti/ |
néantis /ne.ɑ̃.ti/ |
néantit /ne.ɑ̃.ti/ |
néantissons /ne.ɑ̃.ti.sɔ̃/ |
néantissez /ne.ɑ̃.ti.se/ |
néantissent /ne.ɑ̃.tis/ |
| imperfect | néantissais /ne.ɑ̃.ti.sɛ/ |
néantissais /ne.ɑ̃.ti.sɛ/ |
néantissait /ne.ɑ̃.ti.sɛ/ |
néantissions /ne.ɑ̃.ti.sjɔ̃/ |
néantissiez /ne.ɑ̃.ti.sje/ |
néantissaient /ne.ɑ̃.ti.sɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | néantis /ne.ɑ̃.ti/ |
néantis /ne.ɑ̃.ti/ |
néantit /ne.ɑ̃.ti/ |
néantîmes /ne.ɑ̃.tim/ |
néantîtes /ne.ɑ̃.tit/ |
néantirent /ne.ɑ̃.tiʁ/ | |
| future | néantirai /ne.ɑ̃.ti.ʁe/ |
néantiras /ne.ɑ̃.ti.ʁa/ |
néantira /ne.ɑ̃.ti.ʁa/ |
néantirons /ne.ɑ̃.ti.ʁɔ̃/ |
néantirez /ne.ɑ̃.ti.ʁe/ |
néantiront /ne.ɑ̃.ti.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | néantirais /ne.ɑ̃.ti.ʁɛ/ |
néantirais /ne.ɑ̃.ti.ʁɛ/ |
néantirait /ne.ɑ̃.ti.ʁɛ/ |
néantirions /ne.ɑ̃.ti.ʁjɔ̃/ |
néantiriez /ne.ɑ̃.ti.ʁje/ |
néantiraient /ne.ɑ̃.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 | néantisse /ne.ɑ̃.tis/ |
néantisses /ne.ɑ̃.tis/ |
néantisse /ne.ɑ̃.tis/ |
néantissions /ne.ɑ̃.ti.sjɔ̃/ |
néantissiez /ne.ɑ̃.ti.sje/ |
néantissent /ne.ɑ̃.tis/ |
| imperfect2 | néantisse /ne.ɑ̃.tis/ |
néantisses /ne.ɑ̃.tis/ |
néantît /ne.ɑ̃.ti/ |
néantissions /ne.ɑ̃.ti.sjɔ̃/ |
néantissiez /ne.ɑ̃.ti.sje/ |
néantissent /ne.ɑ̃.tis/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | néantis /ne.ɑ̃.ti/ |
— | néantissons /ne.ɑ̃.ti.sɔ̃/ |
néantissez /ne.ɑ̃.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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
References
[edit]- “néantir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.