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appesantir
appesantir
French
Verb
appesantir
- (transitive) to weigh down
- to dull
- (reflexive, s'appesantir sur) to condemn
- (reflexive) to get bogged down (with)
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 appesantir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | appesantir | avoir appesanti | |||||
| gerund | en appesantissant | en ayant appesanti | |||||
| present participle | appesantissant /ap.zɑ̃.ti.sɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | appesanti /ap.zɑ̃.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 | appesantis /ap.zɑ̃.ti/ |
appesantis /ap.zɑ̃.ti/ |
appesantit /ap.zɑ̃.ti/ |
appesantissons /ap.zɑ̃.ti.sɔ̃/ |
appesantissez /ap.zɑ̃.ti.se/ |
appesantissent /ap.zɑ̃.tis/ |
| imperfect | appesantissais /ap.zɑ̃.ti.sɛ/ |
appesantissais /ap.zɑ̃.ti.sɛ/ |
appesantissait /ap.zɑ̃.ti.sɛ/ |
appesantissions /ap.zɑ̃.ti.sjɔ̃/ |
appesantissiez /ap.zɑ̃.ti.sje/ |
appesantissaient /ap.zɑ̃.ti.sɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | appesantis /ap.zɑ̃.ti/ |
appesantis /ap.zɑ̃.ti/ |
appesantit /ap.zɑ̃.ti/ |
appesantîmes /ap.zɑ̃.tim/ |
appesantîtes /ap.zɑ̃.tit/ |
appesantirent /ap.zɑ̃.tiʁ/ |
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| future | appesantirai /ap.zɑ̃.ti.ʁe/ |
appesantiras /ap.zɑ̃.ti.ʁa/ |
appesantira /ap.zɑ̃.ti.ʁa/ |
appesantirons /ap.zɑ̃.ti.ʁɔ̃/ |
appesantirez /ap.zɑ̃.ti.ʁe/ |
appesantiront /ap.zɑ̃.ti.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | appesantirais /ap.zɑ̃.ti.ʁɛ/ |
appesantirais /ap.zɑ̃.ti.ʁɛ/ |
appesantirait /ap.zɑ̃.ti.ʁɛ/ |
appesantirions /ap.zɑ̃.ti.ʁjɔ̃/ |
appesantiriez /ap.zɑ̃.ti.ʁje/ |
appesantiraient /ap.zɑ̃.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 | appesantisse /ap.zɑ̃.tis/ |
appesantisses /ap.zɑ̃.tis/ |
appesantisse /ap.zɑ̃.tis/ |
appesantissions /ap.zɑ̃.ti.sjɔ̃/ |
appesantissiez /ap.zɑ̃.ti.sje/ |
appesantissent /ap.zɑ̃.tis/ |
| imperfect1 |
appesantisse /ap.zɑ̃.tis/ |
appesantisses /ap.zɑ̃.tis/ |
appesantît /ap.zɑ̃.ti/ |
appesantissions /ap.zɑ̃.ti.sjɔ̃/ |
appesantissiez /ap.zɑ̃.ti.sje/ |
appesantissent /ap.zɑ̃.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 | – | |
| — | appesantis /ap.zɑ̃.ti/ |
— | appesantissons /ap.zɑ̃.ti.sɔ̃/ |
appesantissez /ap.zɑ̃.ti.se/ |
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