alourdir
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Verb edit
alourdir
- (transitive) to weigh down
- (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 edit
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 | – | – | – | ||||
| 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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- “alourdir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.