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abroutir
abroutir
French
Verb
abroutir
- (transitive, agriculture, obsolete) To eat the young shoots of or off.
- 1885, Octave Mirbeau, "Ma Chaumière", Lettres de ma chaumière:
- […] , et les troupeaux de moutons […] grimpent aux talus abroutis, sous la garde du chien pasteur. — and the sheep herds climb up the overgrazed slopes under the guard of the herding dog.
- 1885, Octave Mirbeau, "Ma Chaumière", Lettres de ma chaumière:
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 abroutir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | abroutir | avoir abrouti | |||||
| gerund | en abroutissant | en ayant abrouti | |||||
| present participle | abroutissant /a.bʁu.ti.sɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | abrouti /a.bʁu.ti/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | abroutis /a.bʁu.ti/ |
abroutis /a.bʁu.ti/ |
abroutit /a.bʁu.ti/ |
abroutissons /a.bʁu.ti.sɔ̃/ |
abroutissez /a.bʁu.ti.se/ |
abroutissent /a.bʁu.tis/ |
| imperfect | abroutissais /a.bʁu.ti.sɛ/ |
abroutissais /a.bʁu.ti.sɛ/ |
abroutissait /a.bʁu.ti.sɛ/ |
abroutissions /a.bʁu.ti.sjɔ̃/ |
abroutissiez /a.bʁu.ti.sje/ |
abroutissaient /a.bʁu.ti.sɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | abroutis /a.bʁu.ti/ |
abroutis /a.bʁu.ti/ |
abroutit /a.bʁu.ti/ |
abroutîmes /a.bʁu.tim/ |
abroutîtes /a.bʁu.tit/ |
abroutirent /a.bʁu.tiʁ/ |
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| future | abroutirai /a.bʁu.ti.ʁe/ |
abroutiras /a.bʁu.ti.ʁa/ |
abroutira /a.bʁu.ti.ʁa/ |
abroutirons /a.bʁu.ti.ʁɔ̃/ |
abroutirez /a.bʁu.ti.ʁe/ |
abroutiront /a.bʁu.ti.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | abroutirais /a.bʁu.ti.ʁɛ/ |
abroutirais /a.bʁu.ti.ʁɛ/ |
abroutirait /a.bʁu.ti.ʁɛ/ |
abroutirions /a.bʁu.ti.ʁjɔ̃/ |
abroutiriez /a.bʁu.ti.ʁje/ |
abroutiraient /a.bʁu.ti.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 | abroutisse /a.bʁu.tis/ |
abroutisses /a.bʁu.tis/ |
abroutisse /a.bʁu.tis/ |
abroutissions /a.bʁu.ti.sjɔ̃/ |
abroutissiez /a.bʁu.ti.sje/ |
abroutissent /a.bʁu.tis/ |
| imperfect1 |
abroutisse /a.bʁu.tis/ |
abroutisses /a.bʁu.tis/ |
abroutît /a.bʁu.ti/ |
abroutissions /a.bʁu.ti.sjɔ̃/ |
abroutissiez /a.bʁu.ti.sje/ |
abroutissent /a.bʁu.tis/ |
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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 | – | |
| — | abroutis /a.bʁu.ti/ |
— | abroutissons /a.bʁu.ti.sɔ̃/ |
abroutissez /a.bʁu.ti.se/ |
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| 1literary tenses | |||||||