faiblir
French edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
faiblir
- (intransitive) to weaken, to get weaker
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 faiblir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | faiblir | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | faiblissant /fɛ.bli.sɑ̃/ or /fe.bli.sɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | faibli /fɛ.bli/ or /fe.bli/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | faiblis /fɛ.bli/ or /fe.bli/ |
faiblis /fɛ.bli/ or /fe.bli/ |
faiblit /fɛ.bli/ or /fe.bli/ |
faiblissons /fɛ.bli.sɔ̃/ or /fe.bli.sɔ̃/ |
faiblissez /fɛ.bli.se/ or /fe.bli.se/ |
faiblissent /fɛ.blis/ or /fe.blis/ |
| imperfect | faiblissais /fɛ.bli.sɛ/ or /fe.bli.sɛ/ |
faiblissais /fɛ.bli.sɛ/ or /fe.bli.sɛ/ |
faiblissait /fɛ.bli.sɛ/ or /fe.bli.sɛ/ |
faiblissions /fɛ.bli.sjɔ̃/ or /fe.bli.sjɔ̃/ |
faiblissiez /fɛ.bli.sje/ or /fe.bli.sje/ |
faiblissaient /fɛ.bli.sɛ/ or /fe.bli.sɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | faiblis /fɛ.bli/ or /fe.bli/ |
faiblis /fɛ.bli/ or /fe.bli/ |
faiblit /fɛ.bli/ or /fe.bli/ |
faiblîmes /fɛ.blim/ or /fe.blim/ |
faiblîtes /fɛ.blit/ or /fe.blit/ |
faiblirent /fɛ.bliʁ/ or /fe.bliʁ/ | |
| future | faiblirai /fɛ.bli.ʁe/ or /fe.bli.ʁe/ |
faibliras /fɛ.bli.ʁa/ or /fe.bli.ʁa/ |
faiblira /fɛ.bli.ʁa/ or /fe.bli.ʁa/ |
faiblirons /fɛ.bli.ʁɔ̃/ or /fe.bli.ʁɔ̃/ |
faiblirez /fɛ.bli.ʁe/ or /fe.bli.ʁe/ |
faibliront /fɛ.bli.ʁɔ̃/ or /fe.bli.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | faiblirais /fɛ.bli.ʁɛ/ or /fe.bli.ʁɛ/ |
faiblirais /fɛ.bli.ʁɛ/ or /fe.bli.ʁɛ/ |
faiblirait /fɛ.bli.ʁɛ/ or /fe.bli.ʁɛ/ |
faiblirions /fɛ.bli.ʁjɔ̃/ or /fe.bli.ʁjɔ̃/ |
faibliriez /fɛ.bli.ʁje/ or /fe.bli.ʁje/ |
faibliraient /fɛ.bli.ʁɛ/ or /fe.bli.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 | faiblisse /fɛ.blis/ or /fe.blis/ |
faiblisses /fɛ.blis/ or /fe.blis/ |
faiblisse /fɛ.blis/ or /fe.blis/ |
faiblissions /fɛ.bli.sjɔ̃/ or /fe.bli.sjɔ̃/ |
faiblissiez /fɛ.bli.sje/ or /fe.bli.sje/ |
faiblissent /fɛ.blis/ or /fe.blis/ |
| imperfect2 | faiblisse /fɛ.blis/ or /fe.blis/ |
faiblisses /fɛ.blis/ or /fe.blis/ |
faiblît /fɛ.bli/ or /fe.bli/ |
faiblissions /fɛ.bli.sjɔ̃/ or /fe.bli.sjɔ̃/ |
faiblissiez /fɛ.bli.sje/ or /fe.bli.sje/ |
faiblissent /fɛ.blis/ or /fe.blis/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | faiblis /fɛ.bli/ or /fe.bli/ |
— | faiblissons /fɛ.bli.sɔ̃/ or /fe.bli.sɔ̃/ |
faiblissez /fɛ.bli.se/ or /fe.bli.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). | |||||||
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- “faiblir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.