affener

Bourbonnais-Berrichon

Verb

affener

1. to win with difficulty

French

Pronunciation

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Verb

affener

1. to graze, pasture cattle

Conjugation

This verb is conjugated like parler, except the -e- /ə/ of the second-to-last syllable becomes -è- /ɛ/ when the next vowel is a silent or schwa -e-, as in the third-person singular present indicative il affène and the third-person singular future indicative il affènera.

Conjugation of affener (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	affener
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	affenant /af.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		affené /af.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	affène /a.fɛn/	affènes /a.fɛn/	affène /a.fɛn/	affenons /af.nɔ̃/	affenez /af.ne/	affènent /a.fɛn/
	imperfect	affenais /af.nɛ/	affenais /af.nɛ/	affenait /af.nɛ/	affenions /a.fə.njɔ̃/	affeniez /a.fə.nje/	affenaient /af.nɛ/
	past historic2	affenai /af.ne/	affenas /af.na/	affena /af.na/	affenâmes /af.nam/	affenâtes /af.nat/	affenèrent /af.nɛʁ/
	future	affènerai /a.fɛn.ʁe/	affèneras /a.fɛn.ʁa/	affènera /a.fɛn.ʁa/	affènerons /a.fɛn.ʁɔ̃/	affènerez /a.fɛn.ʁe/	affèneront /a.fɛn.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	affènerais /a.fɛn.ʁɛ/	affènerais /a.fɛn.ʁɛ/	affènerait /a.fɛn.ʁɛ/	affènerions /a.fɛ.nə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /a.fe.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	affèneriez /a.fɛ.nə.ʁje/ or /a.fe.nə.ʁje/	affèneraient /a.fɛn.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	affène /a.fɛn/	affènes /a.fɛn/	affène /a.fɛn/	affenions /a.fə.njɔ̃/	affeniez /a.fə.nje/	affènent /a.fɛn/
	imperfect2	affenasse /af.nas/	affenasses /af.nas/	affenât /af.na/	affenassions /af.na.sjɔ̃/	affenassiez /af.na.sje/	affenassent /af.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	affène /a.fɛn/	—	affenons /af.nɔ̃/	affenez /af.ne/	—
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).

Derived terms

• affenage

Further reading

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