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embellir
embellir
French
Verb
embellir
- to improve, make more attractive
- to embellish
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 embellir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | embellir | avoir embelli | |||||
| gerund | en embellissant | en ayant embelli | |||||
| present participle | embellissant /ɑ̃.bɛ.li.sɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | embelli /ɑ̃.bɛ.li/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | embellis /ɑ̃.bɛ.li/ |
embellis /ɑ̃.bɛ.li/ |
embellit /ɑ̃.bɛ.li/ |
embellissons /ɑ̃.bɛ.li.sɔ̃/ |
embellissez /ɑ̃.bɛ.li.se/ |
embellissent /ɑ̃.bɛ.lis/ |
| imperfect | embellissais /ɑ̃.bɛ.li.sɛ/ |
embellissais /ɑ̃.bɛ.li.sɛ/ |
embellissait /ɑ̃.bɛ.li.sɛ/ |
embellissions /ɑ̃.bɛ.li.sjɔ̃/ |
embellissiez /ɑ̃.bɛ.li.sje/ |
embellissaient /ɑ̃.bɛ.li.sɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | embellis /ɑ̃.bɛ.li/ |
embellis /ɑ̃.bɛ.li/ |
embellit /ɑ̃.bɛ.li/ |
embellîmes /ɑ̃.bɛ.lim/ |
embellîtes /ɑ̃.bɛ.lit/ |
embellirent /ɑ̃.bɛ.liʁ/ |
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| future | embellirai /ɑ̃.bɛ.li.ʁe/ |
embelliras /ɑ̃.bɛ.li.ʁa/ |
embellira /ɑ̃.bɛ.li.ʁa/ |
embellirons /ɑ̃.bɛ.li.ʁɔ̃/ |
embellirez /ɑ̃.bɛ.li.ʁe/ |
embelliront /ɑ̃.bɛ.li.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | embellirais /ɑ̃.bɛ.li.ʁɛ/ |
embellirais /ɑ̃.bɛ.li.ʁɛ/ |
embellirait /ɑ̃.bɛ.li.ʁɛ/ |
embellirions /ɑ̃.bɛ.li.ʁjɔ̃/ |
embelliriez /ɑ̃.bɛ.li.ʁje/ |
embelliraient /ɑ̃.bɛ.li.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 | embellisse /ɑ̃.bɛ.lis/ |
embellisses /ɑ̃.bɛ.lis/ |
embellisse /ɑ̃.bɛ.lis/ |
embellissions /ɑ̃.bɛ.li.sjɔ̃/ |
embellissiez /ɑ̃.bɛ.li.sje/ |
embellissent /ɑ̃.bɛ.lis/ |
| imperfect1 |
embellisse /ɑ̃.bɛ.lis/ |
embellisses /ɑ̃.bɛ.lis/ |
embellît /ɑ̃.bɛ.li/ |
embellissions /ɑ̃.bɛ.li.sjɔ̃/ |
embellissiez /ɑ̃.bɛ.li.sje/ |
embellissent /ɑ̃.bɛ.lis/ |
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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 | – | |
| — | embellis /ɑ̃.bɛ.li/ |
— | embellissons /ɑ̃.bɛ.li.sɔ̃/ |
embellissez /ɑ̃.bɛ.li.se/ |
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