annihiler
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin annihilāre.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.ni.i.le/
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Verb
annihiler
- to annihilate (to reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate)
- La tempête a annihilé tous leurs espoirs de voyage.
- The storm destroyed all their hopes of traveling.
- La projet a été annulé, annihilant des mois de travail et d'efforts.
- The project was canceled, eradicating months of work and effort.
- Cette course est décisive pour sa carrière, une défaite annihilerait toute chance de se qualifier pour les championnats.
- This race is decisive for his career; a defeat would destroy any chance of qualifying for the championships.
Conjugation
Conjugation of annihiler (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | annihiler | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | annihilant /a.ni.i.lɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | annihilé /a.ni.i.le/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | annihile /a.ni.il/ |
annihiles /a.ni.il/ |
annihile /a.ni.il/ |
annihilons /a.ni.i.lɔ̃/ |
annihilez /a.ni.i.le/ |
annihilent /a.ni.il/ |
| imperfect | annihilais /a.ni.i.lɛ/ |
annihilais /a.ni.i.lɛ/ |
annihilait /a.ni.i.lɛ/ |
annihilions /a.ni.i.ljɔ̃/ |
annihiliez /a.ni.i.lje/ |
annihilaient /a.ni.i.lɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | annihilai /a.ni.i.le/ |
annihilas /a.ni.i.la/ |
annihila /a.ni.i.la/ |
annihilâmes /a.ni.i.lam/ |
annihilâtes /a.ni.i.lat/ |
annihilèrent /a.ni.i.lɛʁ/ | |
| future | annihilerai /a.ni.il.ʁe/ |
annihileras /a.ni.il.ʁa/ |
annihilera /a.ni.il.ʁa/ |
annihilerons /a.ni.il.ʁɔ̃/ |
annihilerez /a.ni.il.ʁe/ |
annihileront /a.ni.il.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | annihilerais /a.ni.il.ʁɛ/ |
annihilerais /a.ni.il.ʁɛ/ |
annihilerait /a.ni.il.ʁɛ/ |
annihilerions /a.ni.i.lə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
annihileriez /a.ni.i.lə.ʁje/ |
annihileraient /a.ni.il.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 | annihile /a.ni.il/ |
annihiles /a.ni.il/ |
annihile /a.ni.il/ |
annihilions /a.ni.i.ljɔ̃/ |
annihiliez /a.ni.i.lje/ |
annihilent /a.ni.il/ |
| imperfect2 | annihilasse /a.ni.i.las/ |
annihilasses /a.ni.i.las/ |
annihilât /a.ni.i.la/ |
annihilassions /a.ni.i.la.sjɔ̃/ |
annihilassiez /a.ni.i.la.sje/ |
annihilassent /a.ni.i.las/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | annihile /a.ni.il/ |
— | annihilons /a.ni.i.lɔ̃/ |
annihilez /a.ni.i.le/ |
— | |
| 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
- “annihiler”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
Verb
annihiler
- first-person singular present passive subjunctive of annihilō