pétrifier
See also: petrifier
French edit
Etymology edit
From Latin petra (“stone, rock”) + -ifier.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
pétrifier
- (transitive) to petrify (to turn to stone)
- (transitive, figuratively) to petrify, to paralyze (to freeze with fear)
- Synonym: figer
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of pétrifier (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | pétrifier | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | pétrifiant /pe.tʁi.fjɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | pétrifié /pe.tʁi.fje/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | pétrifie /pe.tʁi.fi/ |
pétrifies /pe.tʁi.fi/ |
pétrifie /pe.tʁi.fi/ |
pétrifions /pe.tʁi.fjɔ̃/ |
pétrifiez /pe.tʁi.fje/ |
pétrifient /pe.tʁi.fi/ |
| imperfect | pétrifiais /pe.tʁi.fjɛ/ |
pétrifiais /pe.tʁi.fjɛ/ |
pétrifiait /pe.tʁi.fjɛ/ |
pétrifiions /pe.tʁi.fi.jɔ̃/ |
pétrifiiez /pe.tʁi.fi.je/ |
pétrifiaient /pe.tʁi.fjɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | pétrifiai /pe.tʁi.fje/ |
pétrifias /pe.tʁi.fja/ |
pétrifia /pe.tʁi.fja/ |
pétrifiâmes /pe.tʁi.fjam/ |
pétrifiâtes /pe.tʁi.fjat/ |
pétrifièrent /pe.tʁi.fjɛʁ/ | |
| future | pétrifierai /pe.tʁi.fi.ʁe/ |
pétrifieras /pe.tʁi.fi.ʁa/ |
pétrifiera /pe.tʁi.fi.ʁa/ |
pétrifierons /pe.tʁi.fi.ʁɔ̃/ |
pétrifierez /pe.tʁi.fi.ʁe/ |
pétrifieront /pe.tʁi.fi.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | pétrifierais /pe.tʁi.fi.ʁɛ/ |
pétrifierais /pe.tʁi.fi.ʁɛ/ |
pétrifierait /pe.tʁi.fi.ʁɛ/ |
pétrifierions /pe.tʁi.fi.ʁjɔ̃/ |
pétrifieriez /pe.tʁi.fi.ʁje/ |
pétrifieraient /pe.tʁi.fi.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 | pétrifie /pe.tʁi.fi/ |
pétrifies /pe.tʁi.fi/ |
pétrifie /pe.tʁi.fi/ |
pétrifiions /pe.tʁi.fi.jɔ̃/ |
pétrifiiez /pe.tʁi.fi.je/ |
pétrifient /pe.tʁi.fi/ |
| imperfect2 | pétrifiasse /pe.tʁi.fjas/ |
pétrifiasses /pe.tʁi.fjas/ |
pétrifiât /pe.tʁi.fja/ |
pétrifiassions /pe.tʁi.fja.sjɔ̃/ |
pétrifiassiez /pe.tʁi.fja.sje/ |
pétrifiassent /pe.tʁi.fjas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | pétrifie /pe.tʁi.fi/ |
— | pétrifions /pe.tʁi.fjɔ̃/ |
pétrifiez /pe.tʁi.fje/ |
— | |
| 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
- “pétrifier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.