atteindre
French
    
    Etymology
    
From Old French ateindre, ataindre, from Vulgar Latin *attangere, alteration of Latin attingere, present active infinitive of attingō, based on tangō, tangere.
Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): /a.tɛ̃dʁ/
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- Rhymes: -ɛ̃dʁ
Conjugation
    
This verb is conjugated like peindre. It uses the same endings as rendre or vendre, but its -nd- becomes -gn- before a vowel, and its past participle ends in 't' instead of a vowel.
Conjugation of atteindre (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | atteindre | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | atteignant /a.tɛ.ɲɑ̃/ or /a.te.ɲɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | atteint /a.tɛ̃/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | atteins /a.tɛ̃/ | atteins /a.tɛ̃/ | atteint /a.tɛ̃/ | atteignons /a.tɛ.ɲɔ̃/ or /a.te.ɲɔ̃/ | atteignez /a.tɛ.ɲe/ or /a.te.ɲe/ | atteignent /a.tɛɲ/ | 
| imperfect | atteignais /a.tɛ.ɲɛ/ or /a.te.ɲɛ/ | atteignais /a.tɛ.ɲɛ/ or /a.te.ɲɛ/ | atteignait /a.tɛ.ɲɛ/ or /a.te.ɲɛ/ | atteignions /a.tɛ.ɲjɔ̃/ or /a.te.ɲjɔ̃/ | atteigniez /a.tɛ.ɲje/ or /a.te.ɲje/ | atteignaient /a.tɛ.ɲɛ/ or /a.te.ɲɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | atteignis /a.tɛ.ɲi/ or /a.te.ɲi/ | atteignis /a.tɛ.ɲi/ or /a.te.ɲi/ | atteignit /a.tɛ.ɲi/ or /a.te.ɲi/ | atteignîmes /a.tɛ.ɲim/ or /a.te.ɲim/ | atteignîtes /a.tɛ.ɲit/ or /a.te.ɲit/ | atteignirent /a.tɛ.ɲiʁ/ or /a.te.ɲiʁ/ | |
| future | atteindrai /a.tɛ̃.dʁe/ | atteindras /a.tɛ̃.dʁa/ | atteindra /a.tɛ̃.dʁa/ | atteindrons /a.tɛ̃.dʁɔ̃/ | atteindrez /a.tɛ̃.dʁe/ | atteindront /a.tɛ̃.dʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | atteindrais /a.tɛ̃.dʁɛ/ | atteindrais /a.tɛ̃.dʁɛ/ | atteindrait /a.tɛ̃.dʁɛ/ | atteindrions /a.tɛ̃.dʁi.jɔ̃/ | atteindriez /a.tɛ̃.dʁi.je/ | atteindraient /a.tɛ̃.dʁɛ/ | |
| (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 | atteigne /a.tɛɲ/ | atteignes /a.tɛɲ/ | atteigne /a.tɛɲ/ | atteignions /a.tɛ.ɲjɔ̃/ or /a.te.ɲjɔ̃/ | atteigniez /a.tɛ.ɲje/ or /a.te.ɲje/ | atteignent /a.tɛɲ/ | 
| imperfect2 | atteignisse /a.tɛ.ɲis/ or /a.te.ɲis/ | atteignisses /a.tɛ.ɲis/ or /a.te.ɲis/ | atteignît /a.tɛ.ɲi/ or /a.te.ɲi/ | atteignissions /a.tɛ.ɲi.sjɔ̃/ or /a.te.ɲi.sjɔ̃/ | atteignissiez /a.tɛ.ɲi.sje/ or /a.te.ɲi.sje/ | atteignissent /a.tɛ.ɲis/ or /a.te.ɲis/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | atteins /a.tɛ̃/ | — | atteignons /a.tɛ.ɲɔ̃/ or /a.te.ɲɔ̃/ | atteignez /a.tɛ.ɲe/ or /a.te.ɲe/ | — | |
| 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
    
- “atteindre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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