applaudir
French
Etymology
From Middle French applaudir (14th c.), borrowed from Latin applaudere.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.plo.diʁ/
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Verb
applaudir
- to applaud (express approval by clapping)
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 applaudir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | applaudir | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | applaudissant /a.plo.di.sɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | applaudi /a.plo.di/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | applaudis /a.plo.di/ |
applaudis /a.plo.di/ |
applaudit /a.plo.di/ |
applaudissons /a.plo.di.sɔ̃/ |
applaudissez /a.plo.di.se/ |
applaudissent /a.plo.dis/ |
| imperfect | applaudissais /a.plo.di.sɛ/ |
applaudissais /a.plo.di.sɛ/ |
applaudissait /a.plo.di.sɛ/ |
applaudissions /a.plo.di.sjɔ̃/ |
applaudissiez /a.plo.di.sje/ |
applaudissaient /a.plo.di.sɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | applaudis /a.plo.di/ |
applaudis /a.plo.di/ |
applaudit /a.plo.di/ |
applaudîmes /a.plo.dim/ |
applaudîtes /a.plo.dit/ |
applaudirent /a.plo.diʁ/ | |
| future | applaudirai /a.plo.di.ʁe/ |
applaudiras /a.plo.di.ʁa/ |
applaudira /a.plo.di.ʁa/ |
applaudirons /a.plo.di.ʁɔ̃/ |
applaudirez /a.plo.di.ʁe/ |
applaudiront /a.plo.di.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | applaudirais /a.plo.di.ʁɛ/ |
applaudirais /a.plo.di.ʁɛ/ |
applaudirait /a.plo.di.ʁɛ/ |
applaudirions /a.plo.di.ʁjɔ̃/ |
applaudiriez /a.plo.di.ʁje/ |
applaudiraient /a.plo.di.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 | applaudisse /a.plo.dis/ |
applaudisses /a.plo.dis/ |
applaudisse /a.plo.dis/ |
applaudissions /a.plo.di.sjɔ̃/ |
applaudissiez /a.plo.di.sje/ |
applaudissent /a.plo.dis/ |
| imperfect2 | applaudisse /a.plo.dis/ |
applaudisses /a.plo.dis/ |
applaudît /a.plo.di/ |
applaudissions /a.plo.di.sjɔ̃/ |
applaudissiez /a.plo.di.sje/ |
applaudissent /a.plo.dis/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | applaudis /a.plo.di/ |
— | applaudissons /a.plo.di.sɔ̃/ |
applaudissez /a.plo.di.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). | |||||||
Further reading
- “applaudir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.