agiter

French

Etymology

From Latin agitāre (“to disturb, agitate, toss about”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.ʒi.te/

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Verb

agiter

1. to shake, to wave (to move back and forth)
2. to agitate

Conjugation

Conjugation of agiter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	agiter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	agitant /a.ʒi.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		agité /a.ʒi.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	agite /a.ʒit/	agites /a.ʒit/	agite /a.ʒit/	agitons /a.ʒi.tɔ̃/	agitez /a.ʒi.te/	agitent /a.ʒit/
	imperfect	agitais /a.ʒi.tɛ/	agitais /a.ʒi.tɛ/	agitait /a.ʒi.tɛ/	agitions /a.ʒi.tjɔ̃/	agitiez /a.ʒi.tje/	agitaient /a.ʒi.tɛ/
	past historic2	agitai /a.ʒi.te/	agitas /a.ʒi.ta/	agita /a.ʒi.ta/	agitâmes /a.ʒi.tam/	agitâtes /a.ʒi.tat/	agitèrent /a.ʒi.tɛʁ/
	future	agiterai /a.ʒi.tʁe/	agiteras /a.ʒi.tʁa/	agitera /a.ʒi.tʁa/	agiterons /a.ʒi.tʁɔ̃/	agiterez /a.ʒi.tʁe/	agiteront /a.ʒi.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	agiterais /a.ʒi.tʁɛ/	agiterais /a.ʒi.tʁɛ/	agiterait /a.ʒi.tʁɛ/	agiterions /a.ʒi.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	agiteriez /a.ʒi.tə.ʁje/	agiteraient /a.ʒi.tʁɛ/
(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	agite /a.ʒit/	agites /a.ʒit/	agite /a.ʒit/	agitions /a.ʒi.tjɔ̃/	agitiez /a.ʒi.tje/	agitent /a.ʒit/
	imperfect2	agitasse /a.ʒi.tas/	agitasses /a.ʒi.tas/	agitât /a.ʒi.ta/	agitassions /a.ʒi.ta.sjɔ̃/	agitassiez /a.ʒi.ta.sje/	agitassent /a.ʒi.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	agite /a.ʒit/	—	agitons /a.ʒi.tɔ̃/	agitez /a.ʒi.te/	—
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).

Descendants

• → Romanian: agita

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• gérait
• réagit, réagît
• tirage

Latin

Verb

agiter

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of agitō