évanouir

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French esvanir, evanir, probably from a Vulgar Latin *exvānīre, later influenced from the Latin form ēvānuit (“vanished”) of ēvānescō, ēvānēscere.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /e.va.nwiʁ/

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• Rhymes: -iʁ

Verb

évanouir

1. (pronominal) to lose consciousness; to faint
   • 2011 February 20, L'Orient-Le Jour‎^[1]:

     Cheikh Mohammad Ishaq al-Fayyad s’est évanoui et a saigné du nez à plusieurs reprises ces derniers mois.

     Sheikh Mohammad Ishaq al-Fayyad fainted and bled from the nose several times in recent months.

2. (pronominal, formal) to vanish or disappear without a trace, especially things

Conjugation

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 s'évanouir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	s'évanouir
	compound	s'être + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	s’évanouissant /se.va.nwi.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant or étant + past participle
past participle		évanoui /e.va.nwi/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	m’évanouis /me.va.nwi/	t’évanouis /te.va.nwi/	s’évanouit /se.va.nwi/	nous évanouissons /nu.z‿e.va.nwi.sɔ̃/	vous évanouissez /vu.z‿e.va.nwi.se/	s’évanouissent /se.va.nwis/
	imperfect	m’évanouissais /me.va.nwi.sɛ/	t’évanouissais /te.va.nwi.sɛ/	s’évanouissait /se.va.nwi.sɛ/	nous évanouissions /nu.z‿e.va.nwi.sjɔ̃/	vous évanouissiez /vu.z‿e.va.nwi.sje/	s’évanouissaient /se.va.nwi.sɛ/
	past historic2	m’évanouis /me.va.nwi/	t’évanouis /te.va.nwi/	s’évanouit /se.va.nwi/	nous évanouîmes /nu.z‿e.va.nwim/	vous évanouîtes /vu.z‿e.va.nwit/	s’évanouirent /se.va.nwiʁ/
	future	m’évanouirai /me.va.nwi.ʁe/	t’évanouiras /te.va.nwi.ʁa/	s’évanouira /se.va.nwi.ʁa/	nous évanouirons /nu.z‿e.va.nwi.ʁɔ̃/	vous évanouirez /vu.z‿e.va.nwi.ʁe/	s’évanouiront /se.va.nwi.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	m’évanouirais /me.va.nwi.ʁɛ/	t’évanouirais /te.va.nwi.ʁɛ/	s’évanouirait /se.va.nwi.ʁɛ/	nous évanouirions /nu.z‿e.va.nwi.ʁjɔ̃/	vous évanouiriez /vu.z‿e.va.nwi.ʁje/	s’évanouiraient /se.va.nwi.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of s'être + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of s'être + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of s'être + past participle
	future perfect	future of s'être + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of s'être + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	m’évanouisse /me.va.nwis/	t’évanouisses /te.va.nwis/	s’évanouisse /se.va.nwis/	nous évanouissions /nu.z‿e.va.nwi.sjɔ̃/	vous évanouissiez /vu.z‿e.va.nwi.sje/	s’évanouissent /se.va.nwis/
	imperfect2	m’évanouisse /me.va.nwis/	t’évanouisses /te.va.nwis/	s’évanouît /se.va.nwi/	nous évanouissions /nu.z‿e.va.nwi.sjɔ̃/	vous évanouissiez /vu.z‿e.va.nwi.sje/	s’évanouissent /se.va.nwis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of s'être + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of s'être + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	évanouis-toi /e.va.nwi.twa/	—	évanouissons-nous /e.va.nwi.sɔ̃.nu/	évanouissez-vous /e.va.nwi.se.vu/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of s'être + past participle	—	simple imperative of s'être + past participle	simple imperative of s'être + 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).

Derived terms

• s’évanouir dans la nature

Further reading

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