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attenir
attenir
French
Verb
attenir
- (archaic, inanimate, intransitive) to border; be next to; abut
- 1956, Bernard Tourville & Evelyn Colomb (translators), Arthur Conan Doyle (author), “La Ligue des Rouquins”:
- En me promenant dans le coin, je constatai que la banque de la City et de la Banlieue attenait à la maison de Jabez Wilson.
- I walked round the corner, saw the City and Suburban Bank abutted on our friend's premises. Original English: Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Red-headed League” (short story), in The Strand Magazine, 1891 August.
- En me promenant dans le coin, je constatai que la banque de la City et de la Banlieue attenait à la maison de Jabez Wilson.
- 1956, Bernard Tourville & Evelyn Colomb (translators), Arthur Conan Doyle (author), “La Ligue des Rouquins”:
Usage notes
- The object is introduced by the preposition à.
Conjugation
This is a verb in a group of -ir verbs. All verbs ending in -tenir, such as contenir and détenir, are conjugated this way.
Conjugation of attenir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | attenir | avoir attenu | |||||
| gerund | en attenant | en ayant attenu | |||||
| present participle | attenant /at.nɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | attenu /at.ny/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | attiens /a.tjɛ̃/ |
attiens /a.tjɛ̃/ |
attient /a.tjɛ̃/ |
attenons /at.nɔ̃/ |
attenez /at.ne/ |
attiennent /at.sjɛn/ |
| imperfect | attenais /at.nɛ/ |
attenais /at.nɛ/ |
attenait /at.nɛ/ |
attenions /a.tə.njɔ̃/ |
atteniez /a.tə.nje/ |
attenaient /at.nɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | attins /a.tɛ̃/ |
attins /a.tɛ̃/ |
attint /a.tɛ̃/ |
attînmes /a.tɛ̃m/ |
attîntes /a.tɛ̃t/ |
attinrent /a.tɛ̃ʁ/ |
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| future | attiendrai /at.sjɛ̃.dʁe/ |
attiendras /at.sjɛ̃.dʁa/ |
attiendra /at.sjɛ̃.dʁa/ |
attiendrons /at.sjɛ̃.dʁɔ̃/ |
attiendrez /at.sjɛ̃.dʁe/ |
attiendront /at.sjɛ̃.dʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | attiendrais /at.sjɛ̃.dʁɛ/ |
attiendrais /at.sjɛ̃.dʁɛ/ |
attiendrait /at.sjɛ̃.dʁɛ/ |
attiendrions /at.sjɛ̃.dʁi.jɔ̃/ |
attiendriez /at.sjɛ̃.dʁi.je/ |
attiendraient /at.sjɛ̃.dʁɛ/ |
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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 | attienne /at.sjɛn/ |
attiennes /at.sjɛn/ |
attienne /at.sjɛn/ |
attenions /a.tə.njɔ̃/ |
atteniez /a.tə.nje/ |
attiennent /at.sjɛn/ |
| imperfect1 |
attinsse /a.tɛ̃s/ |
attinsses /a.tɛ̃s/ |
attînt /a.tɛ̃/ |
attinssions /a.tɛ̃.sjɔ̃/ |
attinssiez /a.tɛ̃.sje/ |
attinssent /a.tɛ̃s/ |
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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 | – | |
| — | attiens /a.tjɛ̃/ |
— | attenons /at.nɔ̃/ |
attenez /at.ne/ |
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