abalourdir

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.ba.luʁ.diʁ/

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Verb

abalourdir

1. (transitive) to make dull and stupid

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 abalourdir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	abalourdir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	abalourdissant /a.ba.luʁ.di.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		abalourdi /a.ba.luʁ.di/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	abalourdis /a.ba.luʁ.di/	abalourdis /a.ba.luʁ.di/	abalourdit /a.ba.luʁ.di/	abalourdissons /a.ba.luʁ.di.sɔ̃/	abalourdissez /a.ba.luʁ.di.se/	abalourdissent /a.ba.luʁ.dis/
	imperfect	abalourdissais /a.ba.luʁ.di.sɛ/	abalourdissais /a.ba.luʁ.di.sɛ/	abalourdissait /a.ba.luʁ.di.sɛ/	abalourdissions /a.ba.luʁ.di.sjɔ̃/	abalourdissiez /a.ba.luʁ.di.sje/	abalourdissaient /a.ba.luʁ.di.sɛ/
	past historic2	abalourdis /a.ba.luʁ.di/	abalourdis /a.ba.luʁ.di/	abalourdit /a.ba.luʁ.di/	abalourdîmes /a.ba.luʁ.dim/	abalourdîtes /a.ba.luʁ.dit/	abalourdirent /a.ba.luʁ.diʁ/
	future	abalourdirai /a.ba.luʁ.di.ʁe/	abalourdiras /a.ba.luʁ.di.ʁa/	abalourdira /a.ba.luʁ.di.ʁa/	abalourdirons /a.ba.luʁ.di.ʁɔ̃/	abalourdirez /a.ba.luʁ.di.ʁe/	abalourdiront /a.ba.luʁ.di.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	abalourdirais /a.ba.luʁ.di.ʁɛ/	abalourdirais /a.ba.luʁ.di.ʁɛ/	abalourdirait /a.ba.luʁ.di.ʁɛ/	abalourdirions /a.ba.luʁ.di.ʁjɔ̃/	abalourdiriez /a.ba.luʁ.di.ʁje/	abalourdiraient /a.ba.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	abalourdisse /a.ba.luʁ.dis/	abalourdisses /a.ba.luʁ.dis/	abalourdisse /a.ba.luʁ.dis/	abalourdissions /a.ba.luʁ.di.sjɔ̃/	abalourdissiez /a.ba.luʁ.di.sje/	abalourdissent /a.ba.luʁ.dis/
	imperfect2	abalourdisse /a.ba.luʁ.dis/	abalourdisses /a.ba.luʁ.dis/	abalourdît /a.ba.luʁ.di/	abalourdissions /a.ba.luʁ.di.sjɔ̃/	abalourdissiez /a.ba.luʁ.di.sje/	abalourdissent /a.ba.luʁ.dis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	abalourdis /a.ba.luʁ.di/	—	abalourdissons /a.ba.luʁ.di.sɔ̃/	abalourdissez /a.ba.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).

Further reading

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