aplanir
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
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Verb
aplanir
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 aplanir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | aplanir | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | aplanissant /a.pla.ni.sɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | aplani /a.pla.ni/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | aplanis /a.pla.ni/ |
aplanis /a.pla.ni/ |
aplanit /a.pla.ni/ |
aplanissons /a.pla.ni.sɔ̃/ |
aplanissez /a.pla.ni.se/ |
aplanissent /a.pla.nis/ |
| imperfect | aplanissais /a.pla.ni.sɛ/ |
aplanissais /a.pla.ni.sɛ/ |
aplanissait /a.pla.ni.sɛ/ |
aplanissions /a.pla.ni.sjɔ̃/ |
aplanissiez /a.pla.ni.sje/ |
aplanissaient /a.pla.ni.sɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | aplanis /a.pla.ni/ |
aplanis /a.pla.ni/ |
aplanit /a.pla.ni/ |
aplanîmes /a.pla.nim/ |
aplanîtes /a.pla.nit/ |
aplanirent /a.pla.niʁ/ | |
| future | aplanirai /a.pla.ni.ʁe/ |
aplaniras /a.pla.ni.ʁa/ |
aplanira /a.pla.ni.ʁa/ |
aplanirons /a.pla.ni.ʁɔ̃/ |
aplanirez /a.pla.ni.ʁe/ |
aplaniront /a.pla.ni.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | aplanirais /a.pla.ni.ʁɛ/ |
aplanirais /a.pla.ni.ʁɛ/ |
aplanirait /a.pla.ni.ʁɛ/ |
aplanirions /a.pla.ni.ʁjɔ̃/ |
aplaniriez /a.pla.ni.ʁje/ |
aplaniraient /a.pla.ni.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 | aplanisse /a.pla.nis/ |
aplanisses /a.pla.nis/ |
aplanisse /a.pla.nis/ |
aplanissions /a.pla.ni.sjɔ̃/ |
aplanissiez /a.pla.ni.sje/ |
aplanissent /a.pla.nis/ |
| imperfect2 | aplanisse /a.pla.nis/ |
aplanisses /a.pla.nis/ |
aplanît /a.pla.ni/ |
aplanissions /a.pla.ni.sjɔ̃/ |
aplanissiez /a.pla.ni.sje/ |
aplanissent /a.pla.nis/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | aplanis /a.pla.ni/ |
— | aplanissons /a.pla.ni.sɔ̃/ |
aplanissez /a.pla.ni.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
- “aplanir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.