alourdir

French

Pronunciation

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Verb

alourdir

1. (transitive) to weigh down
2. (reflexive) to pile up (of e.g. problems, to get worse)

   Le bilan pourrait s’alourdir alors que les secouristes continuent de chercher dans la zone sinistrée.

   The death toll could rise as the rescue personnel continue to search the disaster zone.

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 alourdir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	alourdir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	alourdissant /a.luʁ.di.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		alourdi /a.luʁ.di/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	alourdis /a.luʁ.di/	alourdis /a.luʁ.di/	alourdit /a.luʁ.di/	alourdissons /a.luʁ.di.sɔ̃/	alourdissez /a.luʁ.di.se/	alourdissent /a.luʁ.dis/
	imperfect	alourdissais /a.luʁ.di.sɛ/	alourdissais /a.luʁ.di.sɛ/	alourdissait /a.luʁ.di.sɛ/	alourdissions /a.luʁ.di.sjɔ̃/	alourdissiez /a.luʁ.di.sje/	alourdissaient /a.luʁ.di.sɛ/
	past historic2	alourdis /a.luʁ.di/	alourdis /a.luʁ.di/	alourdit /a.luʁ.di/	alourdîmes /a.luʁ.dim/	alourdîtes /a.luʁ.dit/	alourdirent /a.luʁ.diʁ/
	future	alourdirai /a.luʁ.di.ʁe/	alourdiras /a.luʁ.di.ʁa/	alourdira /a.luʁ.di.ʁa/	alourdirons /a.luʁ.di.ʁɔ̃/	alourdirez /a.luʁ.di.ʁe/	alourdiront /a.luʁ.di.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	alourdirais /a.luʁ.di.ʁɛ/	alourdirais /a.luʁ.di.ʁɛ/	alourdirait /a.luʁ.di.ʁɛ/	alourdirions /a.luʁ.di.ʁjɔ̃/	alourdiriez /a.luʁ.di.ʁje/	alourdiraient /a.luʁ.di.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	alourdisse /a.luʁ.dis/	alourdisses /a.luʁ.dis/	alourdisse /a.luʁ.dis/	alourdissions /a.luʁ.di.sjɔ̃/	alourdissiez /a.luʁ.di.sje/	alourdissent /a.luʁ.dis/
	imperfect2	alourdisse /a.luʁ.dis/	alourdisses /a.luʁ.dis/	alourdît /a.luʁ.di/	alourdissions /a.luʁ.di.sjɔ̃/	alourdissiez /a.luʁ.di.sje/	alourdissent /a.luʁ.dis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	alourdis /a.luʁ.di/	—	alourdissons /a.luʁ.di.sɔ̃/	alourdissez /a.luʁ.di.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: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Related terms

• alourdissement
• lourd

Further reading

• “alourdir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.