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bannir
bannir
French
Verb
bannir
- to banish
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 bannir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | bannir | avoir banni | |||||
| gerund | en bannissant | en ayant banni | |||||
| present participle | bannissant /ba.ni.sɑ̃/ | ||||||
| past participle | banni /ba.ni/ | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses | present | bannis /ba.ni/ | bannis /ba.ni/ | bannit /ba.ni/ | bannissons /ba.ni.sɔ̃/ | bannissez /ba.ni.se/ | bannissent /ba.nis/ | 
| imperfect | bannissais /ba.ni.sɛ/ | bannissais /ba.ni.sɛ/ | bannissait /ba.ni.sɛ/ | bannissions /ba.ni.sjɔ̃/ | bannissiez /ba.ni.sje/ | bannissaient /ba.ni.sɛ/ | |
| past historic1 | bannis /ba.ni/ | bannis /ba.ni/ | bannit /ba.ni/ | bannîmes /ba.nim/ | bannîtes /ba.nit/ | bannirent /ba.niʁ/ | |
| future | bannirai /ba.ni.ʁe/ | banniras /ba.ni.ʁa/ | bannira /ba.ni.ʁa/ | bannirons /ba.ni.ʁɔ̃/ | bannirez /ba.ni.ʁe/ | banniront /ba.ni.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | bannirais /ba.ni.ʁɛ/ | bannirais /ba.ni.ʁɛ/ | bannirait /ba.ni.ʁɛ/ | bannirions /ba.ni.ʁjɔ̃/ | banniriez /ba.ni.ʁje/ | banniraient /ba.ni.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 | bannisse /ba.nis/ | bannisses /ba.nis/ | bannisse /ba.nis/ | bannissions /ba.ni.sjɔ̃/ | bannissiez /ba.ni.sje/ | bannissent /ba.nis/ | 
| imperfect1 | bannisse /ba.nis/ | bannisses /ba.nis/ | bannît /ba.ni/ | bannissions /ba.ni.sjɔ̃/ | bannissiez /ba.ni.sje/ | bannissent /ba.nis/ | |
| 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 | – | |
| — | bannis /ba.ni/ | — | bannissons /ba.ni.sɔ̃/ | bannissez /ba.ni.se/ | — | ||
| 1literary tenses | |||||||
Derived terms
- bannissable
- bannissement