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affiner
affiner
French
Verb
affiner
Derived terms
Conjugation
Conjugation of affiner (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | affiner | avoir affiné | |||||
| gerund | en affinant | en ayant affiné | |||||
| present participle | affinant /a.fi.nɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | affiné /a.fi.ne/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | affine /a.fin/ |
affines /a.fin/ |
affine /a.fin/ |
affinons /a.fi.nɔ̃/ |
affinez /a.fi.ne/ |
affinent /a.fin/ |
| imperfect | affinais /a.fi.nɛ/ |
affinais /a.fi.nɛ/ |
affinait /a.fi.nɛ/ |
affinions /a.fi.njɔ̃/ |
affiniez /a.fi.nje/ |
affinaient /a.fi.nɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | affinai /a.fi.ne/ |
affinas /a.fi.na/ |
affina /a.fi.na/ |
affinâmes /a.fi.nam/ |
affinâtes /a.fi.nat/ |
affinèrent /a.fi.nɛʁ/ |
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| future | affinerai /a.fin.ʁe/ |
affineras /a.fin.ʁa/ |
affinera /a.fin.ʁa/ |
affinerons /a.fin.ʁɔ̃/ |
affinerez /a.fin.ʁe/ |
affineront /a.fin.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | affinerais /a.fin.ʁɛ/ |
affinerais /a.fin.ʁɛ/ |
affinerait /a.fin.ʁɛ/ |
affinerions /a.fi.nə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
affineriez /a.fi.nə.ʁje/ |
affineraient /a.fin.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 | affine /a.fin/ |
affines /a.fin/ |
affine /a.fin/ |
affinions /a.fi.njɔ̃/ |
affiniez /a.fi.nje/ |
affinent /a.fin/ |
| imperfect1 |
affinasse /a.fi.nas/ |
affinasses /a.fi.nas/ |
affinât /a.fi.na/ |
affinassions /a.fi.na.sjɔ̃/ |
affinassiez /a.fi.na.sje/ |
affinassent /a.fi.nas/ |
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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 | – | |
| — | affine /a.fin/ |
— | affinons /a.fi.nɔ̃/ |
affinez /a.fi.ne/ |
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| 1literary tenses | |||||||