anoblir
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.nɔ.bliʁ/
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Verb
anoblir
- (transitive) to ennoble, to knight (to bestow nobility, knighthood or a similar title upon somebody)
Usage notes
- Not to be confused with ennoblir.
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 anoblir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | anoblir | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | anoblissant /a.nɔ.bli.sɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | anobli /a.nɔ.bli/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | anoblis /a.nɔ.bli/ |
anoblis /a.nɔ.bli/ |
anoblit /a.nɔ.bli/ |
anoblissons /a.nɔ.bli.sɔ̃/ |
anoblissez /a.nɔ.bli.se/ |
anoblissent /a.nɔ.blis/ |
| imperfect | anoblissais /a.nɔ.bli.sɛ/ |
anoblissais /a.nɔ.bli.sɛ/ |
anoblissait /a.nɔ.bli.sɛ/ |
anoblissions /a.nɔ.bli.sjɔ̃/ |
anoblissiez /a.nɔ.bli.sje/ |
anoblissaient /a.nɔ.bli.sɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | anoblis /a.nɔ.bli/ |
anoblis /a.nɔ.bli/ |
anoblit /a.nɔ.bli/ |
anoblîmes /a.nɔ.blim/ |
anoblîtes /a.nɔ.blit/ |
anoblirent /a.nɔ.bliʁ/ | |
| future | anoblirai /a.nɔ.bli.ʁe/ |
anobliras /a.nɔ.bli.ʁa/ |
anoblira /a.nɔ.bli.ʁa/ |
anoblirons /a.nɔ.bli.ʁɔ̃/ |
anoblirez /a.nɔ.bli.ʁe/ |
anobliront /a.nɔ.bli.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | anoblirais /a.nɔ.bli.ʁɛ/ |
anoblirais /a.nɔ.bli.ʁɛ/ |
anoblirait /a.nɔ.bli.ʁɛ/ |
anoblirions /a.nɔ.bli.ʁjɔ̃/ |
anobliriez /a.nɔ.bli.ʁje/ |
anobliraient /a.nɔ.bli.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 | anoblisse /a.nɔ.blis/ |
anoblisses /a.nɔ.blis/ |
anoblisse /a.nɔ.blis/ |
anoblissions /a.nɔ.bli.sjɔ̃/ |
anoblissiez /a.nɔ.bli.sje/ |
anoblissent /a.nɔ.blis/ |
| imperfect2 | anoblisse /a.nɔ.blis/ |
anoblisses /a.nɔ.blis/ |
anoblît /a.nɔ.bli/ |
anoblissions /a.nɔ.bli.sjɔ̃/ |
anoblissiez /a.nɔ.bli.sje/ |
anoblissent /a.nɔ.blis/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | anoblis /a.nɔ.bli/ |
— | anoblissons /a.nɔ.bli.sɔ̃/ |
anoblissez /a.nɔ.bli.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). | |||||||
Derived terms
Further reading
- “anoblir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.