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amatir
amatir
French
Verb
amatir
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 amatir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | amatir | avoir amati | |||||
| gerund | en amatissant | en ayant amati | |||||
| present participle | amatissant /a.ma.ti.sɑ̃/ | ||||||
| past participle | amati /a.ma.ti/ | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses | present | amatis /a.ma.ti/ | amatis /a.ma.ti/ | amatit /a.ma.ti/ | amatissons /a.ma.ti.sɔ̃/ | amatissez /a.ma.ti.se/ | amatissent /a.ma.tis/ | 
| imperfect | amatissais /a.ma.ti.sɛ/ | amatissais /a.ma.ti.sɛ/ | amatissait /a.ma.ti.sɛ/ | amatissions /a.ma.ti.sjɔ̃/ | amatissiez /a.ma.ti.sje/ | amatissaient /a.ma.ti.sɛ/ | |
| past historic1 | amatis /a.ma.ti/ | amatis /a.ma.ti/ | amatit /a.ma.ti/ | amatîmes /a.ma.tim/ | amatîtes /a.ma.tit/ | amatirent /a.ma.tiʁ/ | |
| future | amatirai /a.ma.ti.ʁe/ | amatiras /a.ma.ti.ʁa/ | amatira /a.ma.ti.ʁa/ | amatirons /a.ma.ti.ʁɔ̃/ | amatirez /a.ma.ti.ʁe/ | amatiront /a.ma.ti.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | amatirais /a.ma.ti.ʁɛ/ | amatirais /a.ma.ti.ʁɛ/ | amatirait /a.ma.ti.ʁɛ/ | amatirions /a.ma.ti.ʁjɔ̃/ | amatiriez /a.ma.ti.ʁje/ | amatiraient /a.ma.ti.ʁɛ/ | |
| 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 | amatisse /a.ma.tis/ | amatisses /a.ma.tis/ | amatisse /a.ma.tis/ | amatissions /a.ma.ti.sjɔ̃/ | amatissiez /a.ma.ti.sje/ | amatissent /a.ma.tis/ | 
| imperfect1 | amatisse /a.ma.tis/ | amatisses /a.ma.tis/ | amatît /a.ma.ti/ | amatissions /a.ma.ti.sjɔ̃/ | amatissiez /a.ma.ti.sje/ | amatissent /a.ma.tis/ | |
| 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 | – | |
| — | amatis /a.ma.ti/ | — | amatissons /a.ma.ti.sɔ̃/ | amatissez /a.ma.ti.se/ | — | ||
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