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appauvrir
appauvrir
French
Verb
appauvrir
- (transitive) to impoverish
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 appauvrir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | appauvrir | avoir appauvri | |||||
| gerund | en appauvrissant | en ayant appauvri | |||||
| present participle | appauvrissant /a.po.vʁi.sɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | appauvri /a.po.vʁi/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | appauvris /a.po.vʁi/ |
appauvris /a.po.vʁi/ |
appauvrit /a.po.vʁi/ |
appauvrissons /a.po.vʁi.sɔ̃/ |
appauvrissez /a.po.vʁi.se/ |
appauvrissent /a.po.vʁis/ |
| imperfect | appauvrissais /a.po.vʁi.sɛ/ |
appauvrissais /a.po.vʁi.sɛ/ |
appauvrissait /a.po.vʁi.sɛ/ |
appauvrissions /a.po.vʁi.sjɔ̃/ |
appauvrissiez /a.po.vʁi.sje/ |
appauvrissaient /a.po.vʁi.sɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | appauvris /a.po.vʁi/ |
appauvris /a.po.vʁi/ |
appauvrit /a.po.vʁi/ |
appauvrîmes /a.po.vʁim/ |
appauvrîtes /a.po.vʁit/ |
appauvrirent /a.po.vʁiʁ/ |
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| future | appauvrirai /a.po.vʁi.ʁe/ |
appauvriras /a.po.vʁi.ʁa/ |
appauvrira /a.po.vʁi.ʁa/ |
appauvrirons /a.po.vʁi.ʁɔ̃/ |
appauvrirez /a.po.vʁi.ʁe/ |
appauvriront /a.po.vʁi.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | appauvrirais /a.po.vʁi.ʁɛ/ |
appauvrirais /a.po.vʁi.ʁɛ/ |
appauvrirait /a.po.vʁi.ʁɛ/ |
appauvririons /a.po.vʁi.ʁjɔ̃/ |
appauvririez /a.po.vʁi.ʁje/ |
appauvriraient /a.po.vʁi.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 | appauvrisse /a.po.vʁis/ |
appauvrisses /a.po.vʁis/ |
appauvrisse /a.po.vʁis/ |
appauvrissions /a.po.vʁi.sjɔ̃/ |
appauvrissiez /a.po.vʁi.sje/ |
appauvrissent /a.po.vʁis/ |
| imperfect1 |
appauvrisse /a.po.vʁis/ |
appauvrisses /a.po.vʁis/ |
appauvrît /a.po.vʁi/ |
appauvrissions /a.po.vʁi.sjɔ̃/ |
appauvrissiez /a.po.vʁi.sje/ |
appauvrissent /a.po.vʁis/ |
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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 | – | |
| — | appauvris /a.po.vʁi/ |
— | appauvrissons /a.po.vʁi.sɔ̃/ |
appauvrissez /a.po.vʁi.se/ |
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| 1literary tenses | |||||||