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assourdir
assourdir
French
Verb
assourdir
- to deafen
 
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 assourdir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | assourdir | avoir assourdi | |||||
| gerund | en assourdissant | en ayant assourdi | |||||
| present participle |  assourdissant /a.suʁ.di.sɑ̃/  | 
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| past participle |  assourdi /a.suʁ.di/  | 
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
|  simple tenses  | 
present |  assourdis /a.suʁ.di/  | 
 assourdis /a.suʁ.di/  | 
 assourdit /a.suʁ.di/  | 
 assourdissons /a.suʁ.di.sɔ̃/  | 
 assourdissez /a.suʁ.di.se/  | 
 assourdissent /a.suʁ.dis/  | 
| imperfect |  assourdissais /a.suʁ.di.sɛ/  | 
 assourdissais /a.suʁ.di.sɛ/  | 
 assourdissait /a.suʁ.di.sɛ/  | 
 assourdissions /a.suʁ.di.sjɔ̃/  | 
 assourdissiez /a.suʁ.di.sje/  | 
 assourdissaient /a.suʁ.di.sɛ/  | 
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| past historic1 |  assourdis /a.suʁ.di/  | 
assourdis /a.suʁ.di/  | 
assourdit /a.suʁ.di/  | 
assourdîmes /a.suʁ.dim/  | 
assourdîtes /a.suʁ.dit/  | 
assourdirent /a.suʁ.diʁ/  | 
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| future |  assourdirai /a.suʁ.di.ʁe/  | 
 assourdiras /a.suʁ.di.ʁa/  | 
 assourdira /a.suʁ.di.ʁa/  | 
 assourdirons /a.suʁ.di.ʁɔ̃/  | 
 assourdirez /a.suʁ.di.ʁe/  | 
 assourdiront /a.suʁ.di.ʁɔ̃/  | 
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| conditional |  assourdirais /a.suʁ.di.ʁɛ/  | 
 assourdirais /a.suʁ.di.ʁɛ/  | 
 assourdirait /a.suʁ.di.ʁɛ/  | 
 assourdirions /a.suʁ.di.ʁjɔ̃/  | 
 assourdiriez /a.suʁ.di.ʁje/  | 
 assourdiraient /a.suʁ.di.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 |  assourdisse /a.suʁ.dis/  | 
 assourdisses /a.suʁ.dis/  | 
 assourdisse /a.suʁ.dis/  | 
 assourdissions /a.suʁ.di.sjɔ̃/  | 
 assourdissiez /a.suʁ.di.sje/  | 
 assourdissent /a.suʁ.dis/  | 
| imperfect1 | 
assourdisse /a.suʁ.dis/  | 
assourdisses /a.suʁ.dis/  | 
assourdît /a.suʁ.di/  | 
assourdissions /a.suʁ.di.sjɔ̃/  | 
assourdissiez /a.suʁ.di.sje/  | 
assourdissent /a.suʁ.dis/  | 
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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 | – | |
| — |  assourdis /a.suʁ.di/  | 
— |  assourdissons /a.suʁ.di.sɔ̃/  | 
 assourdissez /a.suʁ.di.se/  | 
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| 1literary tenses | |||||||