affener
French
Pronunciation
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Conjugation
This verb is conjugated mostly like the regular -er verbs (parler and chanter and so on), but the -e- /ə/ of the second-to-last syllable becomes -è- /ɛ/ when the next vowel is a silent or schwa -e-. For example, in the third-person singular present indicative, we have il affène rather than *il affene. Other verbs conjugated this way include lever and mener. Related but distinct conjugations include those of appeler and préférer.
Conjugation of affener (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | affener | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | affenant /af.nɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | affené /af.ne/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | affène /a.fɛn/ |
affènes /a.fɛn/ |
affène /a.fɛn/ |
affenons /af.nɔ̃/ |
affenez /af.ne/ |
affènent /a.fɛn/ |
| imperfect | affenais /af.nɛ/ |
affenais /af.nɛ/ |
affenait /af.nɛ/ |
affenions /a.fə.njɔ̃/ |
affeniez /a.fə.nje/ |
affenaient /af.nɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | affenai /af.ne/ |
affenas /af.na/ |
affena /af.na/ |
affenâmes /af.nam/ |
affenâtes /af.nat/ |
affenèrent /af.nɛʁ/ | |
| future | affènerai /a.fɛn.ʁe/ |
affèneras /a.fɛn.ʁa/ |
affènera /a.fɛn.ʁa/ |
affènerons /a.fɛn.ʁɔ̃/ |
affènerez /a.fɛn.ʁe/ |
affèneront /a.fɛn.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | affènerais /a.fɛn.ʁɛ/ |
affènerais /a.fɛn.ʁɛ/ |
affènerait /a.fɛn.ʁɛ/ |
affènerions /a.fɛ.nə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /a.fe.nə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
affèneriez /a.fɛ.nə.ʁje/ or /a.fe.nə.ʁje/ |
affèneraient /a.fɛn.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 | affène /a.fɛn/ |
affènes /a.fɛn/ |
affène /a.fɛn/ |
affenions /a.fə.njɔ̃/ |
affeniez /a.fə.nje/ |
affènent /a.fɛn/ |
| imperfect2 | affenasse /af.nas/ |
affenasses /af.nas/ |
affenât /af.na/ |
affenassions /af.na.sjɔ̃/ |
affenassiez /af.na.sje/ |
affenassent /af.nas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | affène /a.fɛn/ |
— | affenons /af.nɔ̃/ |
affenez /af.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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Derived terms
Further reading
- “affener”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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