sourdiner

French

Etymology

From sourdine (“mute”) +‎ -er (verbal infinitive suffix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /suʁ.di.ne/

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Verb

sourdiner

1. (engineering) to stop the vibrations of a power line support [since 20th c.]

Conjugation

Conjugation of sourdiner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	sourdiner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	sourdinant /suʁ.di.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		sourdiné /suʁ.di.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	sourdine /suʁ.din/	sourdines /suʁ.din/	sourdine /suʁ.din/	sourdinons /suʁ.di.nɔ̃/	sourdinez /suʁ.di.ne/	sourdinent /suʁ.din/
	imperfect	sourdinais /suʁ.di.nɛ/	sourdinais /suʁ.di.nɛ/	sourdinait /suʁ.di.nɛ/	sourdinions /suʁ.di.njɔ̃/	sourdiniez /suʁ.di.nje/	sourdinaient /suʁ.di.nɛ/
	past historic2	sourdinai /suʁ.di.ne/	sourdinas /suʁ.di.na/	sourdina /suʁ.di.na/	sourdinâmes /suʁ.di.nam/	sourdinâtes /suʁ.di.nat/	sourdinèrent /suʁ.di.nɛʁ/
	future	sourdinerai /suʁ.din.ʁe/	sourdineras /suʁ.din.ʁa/	sourdinera /suʁ.din.ʁa/	sourdinerons /suʁ.din.ʁɔ̃/	sourdinerez /suʁ.din.ʁe/	sourdineront /suʁ.din.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	sourdinerais /suʁ.din.ʁɛ/	sourdinerais /suʁ.din.ʁɛ/	sourdinerait /suʁ.din.ʁɛ/	sourdinerions /suʁ.di.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	sourdineriez /suʁ.di.nə.ʁje/	sourdineraient /suʁ.din.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	sourdine /suʁ.din/	sourdines /suʁ.din/	sourdine /suʁ.din/	sourdinions /suʁ.di.njɔ̃/	sourdiniez /suʁ.di.nje/	sourdinent /suʁ.din/
	imperfect2	sourdinasse /suʁ.di.nas/	sourdinasses /suʁ.di.nas/	sourdinât /suʁ.di.na/	sourdinassions /suʁ.di.na.sjɔ̃/	sourdinassiez /suʁ.di.na.sje/	sourdinassent /suʁ.di.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	sourdine /suʁ.din/	—	sourdinons /suʁ.di.nɔ̃/	sourdinez /suʁ.di.ne/	—
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).

Further reading

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