amortir

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French amortir, from Vulgar Latin *admortīre, derived from Latin mortuus (“dead”). By surface analysis, a- +‎ mort +‎ -ir.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.mɔʁ.tiʁ/

• Audio:

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Verb

amortir

1. to cushion, absorb, soften (shock, blow etc.)
2. to deaden, muffle (noise)
3. (finance) to pay off, amortize; to redeem (a title)
4. (architecture) to put an amortizement on

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 amortir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	amortir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	amortissant /a.mɔʁ.ti.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		amorti /a.mɔʁ.ti/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	amortis /a.mɔʁ.ti/	amortis /a.mɔʁ.ti/	amortit /a.mɔʁ.ti/	amortissons /a.mɔʁ.ti.sɔ̃/	amortissez /a.mɔʁ.ti.se/	amortissent /a.mɔʁ.tis/
	imperfect	amortissais /a.mɔʁ.ti.sɛ/	amortissais /a.mɔʁ.ti.sɛ/	amortissait /a.mɔʁ.ti.sɛ/	amortissions /a.mɔʁ.ti.sjɔ̃/	amortissiez /a.mɔʁ.ti.sje/	amortissaient /a.mɔʁ.ti.sɛ/
	past historic2	amortis /a.mɔʁ.ti/	amortis /a.mɔʁ.ti/	amortit /a.mɔʁ.ti/	amortîmes /a.mɔʁ.tim/	amortîtes /a.mɔʁ.tit/	amortirent /a.mɔʁ.tiʁ/
	future	amortirai /a.mɔʁ.ti.ʁe/	amortiras /a.mɔʁ.ti.ʁa/	amortira /a.mɔʁ.ti.ʁa/	amortirons /a.mɔʁ.ti.ʁɔ̃/	amortirez /a.mɔʁ.ti.ʁe/	amortiront /a.mɔʁ.ti.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	amortirais /a.mɔʁ.ti.ʁɛ/	amortirais /a.mɔʁ.ti.ʁɛ/	amortirait /a.mɔʁ.ti.ʁɛ/	amortirions /a.mɔʁ.ti.ʁjɔ̃/	amortiriez /a.mɔʁ.ti.ʁje/	amortiraient /a.mɔʁ.ti.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	amortisse /a.mɔʁ.tis/	amortisses /a.mɔʁ.tis/	amortisse /a.mɔʁ.tis/	amortissions /a.mɔʁ.ti.sjɔ̃/	amortissiez /a.mɔʁ.ti.sje/	amortissent /a.mɔʁ.tis/
	imperfect2	amortisse /a.mɔʁ.tis/	amortisses /a.mɔʁ.tis/	amortît /a.mɔʁ.ti/	amortissions /a.mɔʁ.ti.sjɔ̃/	amortissiez /a.mɔʁ.ti.sje/	amortissent /a.mɔʁ.tis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	amortis /a.mɔʁ.ti/	—	amortissons /a.mɔʁ.ti.sɔ̃/	amortissez /a.mɔʁ.ti.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).

Derived terms

• amortissement

Descendants

• → English: amortise

Further reading

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