appauvrir

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French empoverir (with change of prefix), from em- + povre (modern pauvre), from Latin pauper (“poor”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /a.po.vʁiʁ/
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Verb

appauvrir

(transitive) to impoverish

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 appauvrir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	compound	avoir + past participle
infinitive	simple	appauvrir
present participle or gerund¹	simple	appauvrissant /a.po.vʁi.sɑ̃/
present participle or gerund¹	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		appauvri /a.po.vʁi/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	appauvris /a.po.vʁi/	appauvris /a.po.vʁi/	appauvrit /a.po.vʁi/	appauvrissons /a.po.vʁi.sɔ̃/	appauvrissez /a.po.vʁi.se/	appauvrissent /a.po.vʁis/
	imperfect	appauvrissais /a.po.vʁi.sɛ/	appauvrissais /a.po.vʁi.sɛ/	appauvrissait /a.po.vʁi.sɛ/	appauvrissions /a.po.vʁi.sjɔ̃/	appauvrissiez /a.po.vʁi.sje/	appauvrissaient /a.po.vʁi.sɛ/
	past historic²	appauvris /a.po.vʁi/	appauvris /a.po.vʁi/	appauvrit /a.po.vʁi/	appauvrîmes /a.po.vʁim/	appauvrîtes /a.po.vʁit/	appauvrirent /a.po.vʁiʁ/
	future	appauvrirai /a.po.vʁi.ʁe/	appauvriras /a.po.vʁi.ʁa/	appauvrira /a.po.vʁi.ʁa/	appauvrirons /a.po.vʁi.ʁɔ̃/	appauvrirez /a.po.vʁi.ʁe/	appauvriront /a.po.vʁi.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	appauvrirais /a.po.vʁi.ʁɛ/	appauvrirais /a.po.vʁi.ʁɛ/	appauvrirait /a.po.vʁi.ʁɛ/	appauvririons /a.po.vʁi.ʁjɔ̃/	appauvririez /a.po.vʁi.ʁje/	appauvriraient /a.po.vʁi.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	appauvrisse /a.po.vʁis/	appauvrisses /a.po.vʁis/	appauvrisse /a.po.vʁis/	appauvrissions /a.po.vʁi.sjɔ̃/	appauvrissiez /a.po.vʁi.sje/	appauvrissent /a.po.vʁis/
(simple tenses)	imperfect²	appauvrisse /a.po.vʁis/	appauvrisses /a.po.vʁis/	appauvrît /a.po.vʁi/	appauvrissions /a.po.vʁi.sjɔ̃/	appauvrissiez /a.po.vʁi.sje/	appauvrissent /a.po.vʁis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
(compound tenses)	pluperfect²	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	~~nous~~	~~vous~~	–
simple		—	appauvris /a.po.vʁi/	—	appauvrissons /a.po.vʁi.sɔ̃/	appauvrissez /a.po.vʁi.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

appauvrissement