appesantir
French
Etymology
From pesant.
Pronunciation
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Verb
appesantir
- (transitive) to weigh down
- to dull
- (reflexive, s'appesantir sur) to condemn
- (reflexive) to get bogged down (with)
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 appesantir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | appesantir | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | appesantissant /ap.zɑ̃.ti.sɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | appesanti /ap.zɑ̃.ti/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | appesantis /ap.zɑ̃.ti/ |
appesantis /ap.zɑ̃.ti/ |
appesantit /ap.zɑ̃.ti/ |
appesantissons /ap.zɑ̃.ti.sɔ̃/ |
appesantissez /ap.zɑ̃.ti.se/ |
appesantissent /ap.zɑ̃.tis/ |
| imperfect | appesantissais /ap.zɑ̃.ti.sɛ/ |
appesantissais /ap.zɑ̃.ti.sɛ/ |
appesantissait /ap.zɑ̃.ti.sɛ/ |
appesantissions /ap.zɑ̃.ti.sjɔ̃/ |
appesantissiez /ap.zɑ̃.ti.sje/ |
appesantissaient /ap.zɑ̃.ti.sɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | appesantis /ap.zɑ̃.ti/ |
appesantis /ap.zɑ̃.ti/ |
appesantit /ap.zɑ̃.ti/ |
appesantîmes /ap.zɑ̃.tim/ |
appesantîtes /ap.zɑ̃.tit/ |
appesantirent /ap.zɑ̃.tiʁ/ | |
| future | appesantirai /ap.zɑ̃.ti.ʁe/ |
appesantiras /ap.zɑ̃.ti.ʁa/ |
appesantira /ap.zɑ̃.ti.ʁa/ |
appesantirons /ap.zɑ̃.ti.ʁɔ̃/ |
appesantirez /ap.zɑ̃.ti.ʁe/ |
appesantiront /ap.zɑ̃.ti.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | appesantirais /ap.zɑ̃.ti.ʁɛ/ |
appesantirais /ap.zɑ̃.ti.ʁɛ/ |
appesantirait /ap.zɑ̃.ti.ʁɛ/ |
appesantirions /ap.zɑ̃.ti.ʁjɔ̃/ |
appesantiriez /ap.zɑ̃.ti.ʁje/ |
appesantiraient /ap.zɑ̃.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 | appesantisse /ap.zɑ̃.tis/ |
appesantisses /ap.zɑ̃.tis/ |
appesantisse /ap.zɑ̃.tis/ |
appesantissions /ap.zɑ̃.ti.sjɔ̃/ |
appesantissiez /ap.zɑ̃.ti.sje/ |
appesantissent /ap.zɑ̃.tis/ |
| imperfect2 | appesantisse /ap.zɑ̃.tis/ |
appesantisses /ap.zɑ̃.tis/ |
appesantît /ap.zɑ̃.ti/ |
appesantissions /ap.zɑ̃.ti.sjɔ̃/ |
appesantissiez /ap.zɑ̃.ti.sje/ |
appesantissent /ap.zɑ̃.tis/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | appesantis /ap.zɑ̃.ti/ |
— | appesantissons /ap.zɑ̃.ti.sɔ̃/ |
appesantissez /ap.zɑ̃.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). | |||||||
Further reading
- “appesantir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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