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fléchir

fléchir

See also: flechir

French

Verb

fléchir

  1. (transitive) to bend, to fold
  2. (intransitive) to bend, to bend over
  3. (figuratively, transitive) to provoke pity

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-.