fléchir
See also: flechir
French edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Old French flechir, from an original flechier (with a change in verb class), from Vulgar Latin *flecticāre, frequentative based on Latin flectere.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
fléchir
- (transitive) to bend, to fold
- (intransitive) to bend, to bend over
- (transitive) to flex (eg. a muscle)
- (figuratively, transitive) to provoke pity
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 fléchir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | fléchir | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | fléchissant /fle.ʃi.sɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | fléchi /fle.ʃi/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | fléchis /fle.ʃi/ |
fléchis /fle.ʃi/ |
fléchit /fle.ʃi/ |
fléchissons /fle.ʃi.sɔ̃/ |
fléchissez /fle.ʃi.se/ |
fléchissent /fle.ʃis/ |
| imperfect | fléchissais /fle.ʃi.sɛ/ |
fléchissais /fle.ʃi.sɛ/ |
fléchissait /fle.ʃi.sɛ/ |
fléchissions /fle.ʃi.sjɔ̃/ |
fléchissiez /fle.ʃi.sje/ |
fléchissaient /fle.ʃi.sɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | fléchis /fle.ʃi/ |
fléchis /fle.ʃi/ |
fléchit /fle.ʃi/ |
fléchîmes /fle.ʃim/ |
fléchîtes /fle.ʃit/ |
fléchirent /fle.ʃiʁ/ | |
| future | fléchirai /fle.ʃi.ʁe/ |
fléchiras /fle.ʃi.ʁa/ |
fléchira /fle.ʃi.ʁa/ |
fléchirons /fle.ʃi.ʁɔ̃/ |
fléchirez /fle.ʃi.ʁe/ |
fléchiront /fle.ʃi.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | fléchirais /fle.ʃi.ʁɛ/ |
fléchirais /fle.ʃi.ʁɛ/ |
fléchirait /fle.ʃi.ʁɛ/ |
fléchirions /fle.ʃi.ʁjɔ̃/ |
fléchiriez /fle.ʃi.ʁje/ |
fléchiraient /fle.ʃi.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 | fléchisse /fle.ʃis/ |
fléchisses /fle.ʃis/ |
fléchisse /fle.ʃis/ |
fléchissions /fle.ʃi.sjɔ̃/ |
fléchissiez /fle.ʃi.sje/ |
fléchissent /fle.ʃis/ |
| imperfect2 | fléchisse /fle.ʃis/ |
fléchisses /fle.ʃis/ |
fléchît /fle.ʃi/ |
fléchissions /fle.ʃi.sjɔ̃/ |
fléchissiez /fle.ʃi.sje/ |
fléchissent /fle.ʃis/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | fléchis /fle.ʃi/ |
— | fléchissons /fle.ʃi.sɔ̃/ |
fléchissez /fle.ʃi.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
References edit
- “fléchir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.