agenouiller
French
Etymology
Inherited from Old French agenoillier, from genoil (“knee”). Compare Catalan agenollar, Portuguese ajoelhar, Italian inginocchiare, Romanian îngenunchea.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /aʒ.nu.je/
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Verb
agenouiller
- (reflexive) to kneel, to kneel down
- En rentrant dans l'église, on me pria de m'agenouiller.
- When I went into the church, I was asked to kneel.
Conjugation
Conjugation of agenouiller (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | agenouiller | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | agenouillant /aʒ.nu.jɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | agenouillé /aʒ.nu.je/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | agenouille /aʒ.nuj/ |
agenouilles /aʒ.nuj/ |
agenouille /aʒ.nuj/ |
agenouillons /aʒ.nu.jɔ̃/ |
agenouillez /aʒ.nu.je/ |
agenouillent /aʒ.nuj/ |
| imperfect | agenouillais /aʒ.nu.jɛ/ |
agenouillais /aʒ.nu.jɛ/ |
agenouillait /aʒ.nu.jɛ/ |
agenouillions /aʒ.nuj.jɔ̃/ |
agenouilliez /aʒ.nuj.je/ |
agenouillaient /aʒ.nu.jɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | agenouillai /aʒ.nu.je/ |
agenouillas /aʒ.nu.ja/ |
agenouilla /aʒ.nu.ja/ |
agenouillâmes /aʒ.nu.jam/ |
agenouillâtes /aʒ.nu.jat/ |
agenouillèrent /aʒ.nu.jɛʁ/ | |
| future | agenouillerai /aʒ.nuj.ʁe/ |
agenouilleras /aʒ.nuj.ʁa/ |
agenouillera /aʒ.nuj.ʁa/ |
agenouillerons /aʒ.nuj.ʁɔ̃/ |
agenouillerez /aʒ.nuj.ʁe/ |
agenouilleront /aʒ.nuj.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | agenouillerais /aʒ.nuj.ʁɛ/ |
agenouillerais /aʒ.nuj.ʁɛ/ |
agenouillerait /aʒ.nuj.ʁɛ/ |
agenouillerions /aʒ.nu.jə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
agenouilleriez /aʒ.nu.jə.ʁje/ |
agenouilleraient /aʒ.nuj.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 | agenouille /aʒ.nuj/ |
agenouilles /aʒ.nuj/ |
agenouille /aʒ.nuj/ |
agenouillions /aʒ.nuj.jɔ̃/ |
agenouilliez /aʒ.nuj.je/ |
agenouillent /aʒ.nuj/ |
| imperfect2 | agenouillasse /aʒ.nu.jas/ |
agenouillasses /aʒ.nu.jas/ |
agenouillât /aʒ.nu.ja/ |
agenouillassions /aʒ.nu.ja.sjɔ̃/ |
agenouillassiez /aʒ.nu.ja.sje/ |
agenouillassent /aʒ.nu.jas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | agenouille /aʒ.nuj/ |
— | agenouillons /aʒ.nu.jɔ̃/ |
agenouillez /aʒ.nu.je/ |
— | |
| 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
- agenouillable
- agenouilliste
Further reading
- “agenouiller”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.