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envahir
envahir
French
Verb
envahir
- to invade
- Les forces américaines ont envahi le territoire iraquien.
- The American Forces have invaded the Iraqi territory
- Les forces américaines ont envahi le territoire iraquien.
- to stretch, to overgrow, to fill
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 envahir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | envahir | avoir envahi | |||||
| gerund | en envahissant | en ayant envahi | |||||
| present participle | envahissant /ɑ̃.va.i.sɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | envahi /ɑ̃.va.i/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | envahis /ɑ̃.va.i/ |
envahis /ɑ̃.va.i/ |
envahit /ɑ̃.va.i/ |
envahissons /ɑ̃.va.i.sɔ̃/ |
envahissez /ɑ̃.va.i.se/ |
envahissent /ɑ̃.va.is/ |
| imperfect | envahissais /ɑ̃.va.i.sɛ/ |
envahissais /ɑ̃.va.i.sɛ/ |
envahissait /ɑ̃.va.i.sɛ/ |
envahissions /ɑ̃.va.i.sjɔ̃/ |
envahissiez /ɑ̃.va.i.sje/ |
envahissaient /ɑ̃.va.i.sɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | envahis /ɑ̃.va.i/ |
envahis /ɑ̃.va.i/ |
envahit /ɑ̃.va.i/ |
envahîmes /ɑ̃.va.im/ |
envahîtes /ɑ̃.va.it/ |
envahirent /ɑ̃.va.iʁ/ |
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| future | envahirai /ɑ̃.va.i.ʁe/ |
envahiras /ɑ̃.va.i.ʁa/ |
envahira /ɑ̃.va.i.ʁa/ |
envahirons /ɑ̃.va.i.ʁɔ̃/ |
envahirez /ɑ̃.va.i.ʁe/ |
envahiront /ɑ̃.va.i.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | envahirais /ɑ̃.va.i.ʁɛ/ |
envahirais /ɑ̃.va.i.ʁɛ/ |
envahirait /ɑ̃.va.i.ʁɛ/ |
envahirions /ɑ̃.va.i.ʁjɔ̃/ |
envahiriez /ɑ̃.va.i.ʁje/ |
envahiraient /ɑ̃.va.i.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 | envahisse /ɑ̃.va.is/ |
envahisses /ɑ̃.va.is/ |
envahisse /ɑ̃.va.is/ |
envahissions /ɑ̃.va.i.sjɔ̃/ |
envahissiez /ɑ̃.va.i.sje/ |
envahissent /ɑ̃.va.is/ |
| imperfect1 |
envahisse /ɑ̃.va.is/ |
envahisses /ɑ̃.va.is/ |
envahît /ɑ̃.va.i/ |
envahissions /ɑ̃.va.i.sjɔ̃/ |
envahissiez /ɑ̃.va.i.sje/ |
envahissent /ɑ̃.va.is/ |
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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 | – | |
| — | envahis /ɑ̃.va.i/ |
— | envahissons /ɑ̃.va.i.sɔ̃/ |
envahissez /ɑ̃.va.i.se/ |
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