abonnir
French edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
abonnir
- (transitive, absolutive or reflexive, usually inanimate, strongly dated) to improve; to render or become better
Usage notes edit
- The verb is commonly used in agriculture to signify the action of enriching a soil. It is also used to refer to the improvement of wine over time.
- The verb is sometimes used humorously, and has been replaced in common use by améliorer.
Conjugation edit
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 abonnir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | abonnir | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | abonnissant /a.bɔ.ni.sɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | abonni /a.bɔ.ni/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | abonnis /a.bɔ.ni/ |
abonnis /a.bɔ.ni/ |
abonnit /a.bɔ.ni/ |
abonnissons /a.bɔ.ni.sɔ̃/ |
abonnissez /a.bɔ.ni.se/ |
abonnissent /a.bɔ.nis/ |
| imperfect | abonnissais /a.bɔ.ni.sɛ/ |
abonnissais /a.bɔ.ni.sɛ/ |
abonnissait /a.bɔ.ni.sɛ/ |
abonnissions /a.bɔ.ni.sjɔ̃/ |
abonnissiez /a.bɔ.ni.sje/ |
abonnissaient /a.bɔ.ni.sɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | abonnis /a.bɔ.ni/ |
abonnis /a.bɔ.ni/ |
abonnit /a.bɔ.ni/ |
abonnîmes /a.bɔ.nim/ |
abonnîtes /a.bɔ.nit/ |
abonnirent /a.bɔ.niʁ/ | |
| future | abonnirai /a.bɔ.ni.ʁe/ |
abonniras /a.bɔ.ni.ʁa/ |
abonnira /a.bɔ.ni.ʁa/ |
abonnirons /a.bɔ.ni.ʁɔ̃/ |
abonnirez /a.bɔ.ni.ʁe/ |
abonniront /a.bɔ.ni.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | abonnirais /a.bɔ.ni.ʁɛ/ |
abonnirais /a.bɔ.ni.ʁɛ/ |
abonnirait /a.bɔ.ni.ʁɛ/ |
abonnirions /a.bɔ.ni.ʁjɔ̃/ |
abonniriez /a.bɔ.ni.ʁje/ |
abonniraient /a.bɔ.ni.ʁɛ/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | abonnisse /a.bɔ.nis/ |
abonnisses /a.bɔ.nis/ |
abonnisse /a.bɔ.nis/ |
abonnissions /a.bɔ.ni.sjɔ̃/ |
abonnissiez /a.bɔ.ni.sje/ |
abonnissent /a.bɔ.nis/ |
| imperfect2 | abonnisse /a.bɔ.nis/ |
abonnisses /a.bɔ.nis/ |
abonnît /a.bɔ.ni/ |
abonnissions /a.bɔ.ni.sjɔ̃/ |
abonnissiez /a.bɔ.ni.sje/ |
abonnissent /a.bɔ.nis/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | abonnis /a.bɔ.ni/ |
— | abonnissons /a.bɔ.ni.sɔ̃/ |
abonnissez /a.bɔ.ni.se/ |
— | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “abonnir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.