amarsir

French

FWOTD - 3 January 2013

Etymology

From a- + Mars + -ir, on the analogy of atterrir (“to land (on Earth)”) from Terre (“Earth”).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /a.maʁ.siʁ/

Verb

amarsir (intransitive)

1. (of a spacecraft) To land on the surface of the planet Mars
   • 1996, Fernando Arrabal, Le fou rire des lilliputiens, page 90:
   • Les plus anciens de la localité estiment qu'elle amarsira sur une aussi plantureuse planète au mois de février 1897, année bissextile par voie orale.
   • The oldest residents thought that she'd made a Mars landing on another fertile planet in the month of February, 1897, a leap year in their way of speaking.

Derived terms

• amarsissage

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 amarsir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

		simple			compound
infinitive		amarsir			avoir amarsi
gerund		en amarsissant			en ayant amarsi
present participle		amarsissant
past participle		amarsi
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il	nous	vous	ils
simple tenses	present	amarsis	amarsis	amarsit	amarsissons	amarsissez	amarsissent
	imperfect	amarsissais	amarsissais	amarsissait	amarsissions	amarsissiez	amarsissaient
	past historic1	amarsis	amarsis	amarsit	amarsîmes	amarsîtes	amarsirent
	future	amarsirai	amarsiras	amarsira	amarsirons	amarsirez	amarsiront
	conditional	amarsirais	amarsirais	amarsirait	amarsirions	amarsiriez	amarsiraient
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	amarsisse	amarsisses	amarsisse	amarsissions	amarsissiez	amarsissent
	imperfect1	amarsisse	amarsisses	amarsît	amarsissions	amarsissiez	amarsissent
compound tenses	past	Use the present subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle
	pluperfect1	Use the imperfect subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
		—	amarsis	—	amarsissons	amarsissez	—
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