anéantir
FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
From a- + néant + -ir. Compare annihiler, a parallel formation.
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
anéantir
- (transitive) to wipe out, to destroy, to shatter
- Synonyms: réduire à néant, annihiler
- (transitive, figuratively) to hit someone for six
ConjugationEdit
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 anéantir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | anéantir | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | anéantissant /a.ne.ɑ̃.ti.sɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | anéanti /a.ne.ɑ̃.ti/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | anéantis /a.ne.ɑ̃.ti/ |
anéantis /a.ne.ɑ̃.ti/ |
anéantit /a.ne.ɑ̃.ti/ |
anéantissons /a.ne.ɑ̃.ti.sɔ̃/ |
anéantissez /a.ne.ɑ̃.ti.se/ |
anéantissent /a.ne.ɑ̃.tis/ |
| imperfect | anéantissais /a.ne.ɑ̃.ti.sɛ/ |
anéantissais /a.ne.ɑ̃.ti.sɛ/ |
anéantissait /a.ne.ɑ̃.ti.sɛ/ |
anéantissions /a.ne.ɑ̃.ti.sjɔ̃/ |
anéantissiez /a.ne.ɑ̃.ti.sje/ |
anéantissaient /a.ne.ɑ̃.ti.sɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | anéantis /a.ne.ɑ̃.ti/ |
anéantis /a.ne.ɑ̃.ti/ |
anéantit /a.ne.ɑ̃.ti/ |
anéantîmes /a.ne.ɑ̃.tim/ |
anéantîtes /a.ne.ɑ̃.tit/ |
anéantirent /a.ne.ɑ̃.tiʁ/ | |
| future | anéantirai /a.ne.ɑ̃.ti.ʁe/ |
anéantiras /a.ne.ɑ̃.ti.ʁa/ |
anéantira /a.ne.ɑ̃.ti.ʁa/ |
anéantirons /a.ne.ɑ̃.ti.ʁɔ̃/ |
anéantirez /a.ne.ɑ̃.ti.ʁe/ |
anéantiront /a.ne.ɑ̃.ti.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | anéantirais /a.ne.ɑ̃.ti.ʁɛ/ |
anéantirais /a.ne.ɑ̃.ti.ʁɛ/ |
anéantirait /a.ne.ɑ̃.ti.ʁɛ/ |
anéantirions /a.ne.ɑ̃.ti.ʁjɔ̃/ |
anéantiriez /a.ne.ɑ̃.ti.ʁje/ |
anéantiraient /a.ne.ɑ̃.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 | anéantisse /a.ne.ɑ̃.tis/ |
anéantisses /a.ne.ɑ̃.tis/ |
anéantisse /a.ne.ɑ̃.tis/ |
anéantissions /a.ne.ɑ̃.ti.sjɔ̃/ |
anéantissiez /a.ne.ɑ̃.ti.sje/ |
anéantissent /a.ne.ɑ̃.tis/ |
| imperfect2 | anéantisse /a.ne.ɑ̃.tis/ |
anéantisses /a.ne.ɑ̃.tis/ |
anéantît /a.ne.ɑ̃.ti/ |
anéantissions /a.ne.ɑ̃.ti.sjɔ̃/ |
anéantissiez /a.ne.ɑ̃.ti.sje/ |
anéantissent /a.ne.ɑ̃.tis/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | anéantis /a.ne.ɑ̃.ti/ |
— | anéantissons /a.ne.ɑ̃.ti.sɔ̃/ |
anéantissez /a.ne.ɑ̃.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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Derived termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “anéantir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.