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abrutir
abrutir
French
Verb
abrutir
- (transitive) To render idiotic; to turn into idiots.
- (transitive, intransitive) To blunt or deaden the mind.
- (transitive) To overwhelm, to devastate.
- (literary) To return to a brutish or bestial state.
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 abrutir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | abrutir | avoir abruti | |||||
| gerund | en abrutissant | en ayant abruti | |||||
| present participle | abrutissant /a.bʁy.ti.sɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | abruti /a.bʁy.ti/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | abrutis /a.bʁy.ti/ |
abrutis /a.bʁy.ti/ |
abrutit /a.bʁy.ti/ |
abrutissons /a.bʁy.ti.sɔ̃/ |
abrutissez /a.bʁy.ti.se/ |
abrutissent /a.bʁy.tis/ |
| imperfect | abrutissais /a.bʁy.ti.sɛ/ |
abrutissais /a.bʁy.ti.sɛ/ |
abrutissait /a.bʁy.ti.sɛ/ |
abrutissions /a.bʁy.ti.sjɔ̃/ |
abrutissiez /a.bʁy.ti.sje/ |
abrutissaient /a.bʁy.ti.sɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | abrutis /a.bʁy.ti/ |
abrutis /a.bʁy.ti/ |
abrutit /a.bʁy.ti/ |
abrutîmes /a.bʁy.tim/ |
abrutîtes /a.bʁy.tit/ |
abrutirent /a.bʁy.tiʁ/ |
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| future | abrutirai /a.bʁy.ti.ʁe/ |
abrutiras /a.bʁy.ti.ʁa/ |
abrutira /a.bʁy.ti.ʁa/ |
abrutirons /a.bʁy.ti.ʁɔ̃/ |
abrutirez /a.bʁy.ti.ʁe/ |
abrutiront /a.bʁy.ti.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | abrutirais /a.bʁy.ti.ʁɛ/ |
abrutirais /a.bʁy.ti.ʁɛ/ |
abrutirait /a.bʁy.ti.ʁɛ/ |
abrutirions /a.bʁy.ti.ʁjɔ̃/ |
abrutiriez /a.bʁy.ti.ʁje/ |
abrutiraient /a.bʁy.ti.ʁɛ/ |
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| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior1 | Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | abrutisse /a.bʁy.tis/ |
abrutisses /a.bʁy.tis/ |
abrutisse /a.bʁy.tis/ |
abrutissions /a.bʁy.ti.sjɔ̃/ |
abrutissiez /a.bʁy.ti.sje/ |
abrutissent /a.bʁy.tis/ |
| imperfect1 |
abrutisse /a.bʁy.tis/ |
abrutisses /a.bʁy.tis/ |
abrutît /a.bʁy.ti/ |
abrutissions /a.bʁy.ti.sjɔ̃/ |
abrutissiez /a.bʁy.ti.sje/ |
abrutissent /a.bʁy.tis/ |
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| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | abrutis /a.bʁy.ti/ |
— | abrutissons /a.bʁy.ti.sɔ̃/ |
abrutissez /a.bʁy.ti.se/ |
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| 1literary tenses | |||||||