appauvrir
French
Etymology
From Old French empoverir (with change of prefix), from em- + povre (modern pauvre), from Latin pauper (“poor”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.po.vʁiʁ/
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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 appauvrir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | appauvrir | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | appauvrissant /a.po.vʁi.sɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | appauvri /a.po.vʁi/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | appauvris /a.po.vʁi/ |
appauvris /a.po.vʁi/ |
appauvrit /a.po.vʁi/ |
appauvrissons /a.po.vʁi.sɔ̃/ |
appauvrissez /a.po.vʁi.se/ |
appauvrissent /a.po.vʁis/ |
| imperfect | appauvrissais /a.po.vʁi.sɛ/ |
appauvrissais /a.po.vʁi.sɛ/ |
appauvrissait /a.po.vʁi.sɛ/ |
appauvrissions /a.po.vʁi.sjɔ̃/ |
appauvrissiez /a.po.vʁi.sje/ |
appauvrissaient /a.po.vʁi.sɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | appauvris /a.po.vʁi/ |
appauvris /a.po.vʁi/ |
appauvrit /a.po.vʁi/ |
appauvrîmes /a.po.vʁim/ |
appauvrîtes /a.po.vʁit/ |
appauvrirent /a.po.vʁiʁ/ | |
| future | appauvrirai /a.po.vʁi.ʁe/ |
appauvriras /a.po.vʁi.ʁa/ |
appauvrira /a.po.vʁi.ʁa/ |
appauvrirons /a.po.vʁi.ʁɔ̃/ |
appauvrirez /a.po.vʁi.ʁe/ |
appauvriront /a.po.vʁi.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | appauvrirais /a.po.vʁi.ʁɛ/ |
appauvrirais /a.po.vʁi.ʁɛ/ |
appauvrirait /a.po.vʁi.ʁɛ/ |
appauvririons /a.po.vʁi.ʁjɔ̃/ |
appauvririez /a.po.vʁi.ʁje/ |
appauvriraient /a.po.vʁi.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 | appauvrisse /a.po.vʁis/ |
appauvrisses /a.po.vʁis/ |
appauvrisse /a.po.vʁis/ |
appauvrissions /a.po.vʁi.sjɔ̃/ |
appauvrissiez /a.po.vʁi.sje/ |
appauvrissent /a.po.vʁis/ |
| imperfect2 | appauvrisse /a.po.vʁis/ |
appauvrisses /a.po.vʁis/ |
appauvrît /a.po.vʁi/ |
appauvrissions /a.po.vʁi.sjɔ̃/ |
appauvrissiez /a.po.vʁi.sje/ |
appauvrissent /a.po.vʁis/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | appauvris /a.po.vʁi/ |
— | appauvrissons /a.po.vʁi.sɔ̃/ |
appauvrissez /a.po.vʁi.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). | |||||||
Related terms
Further reading
- “appauvrir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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