aplatir

French

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /a.pla.tiʁ/
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Verb

aplatir

to flatten (to make something flat)

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 aplatir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	compound	avoir + past participle
infinitive	simple	aplatir
present participle or gerund¹	simple	aplatissant /a.pla.ti.sɑ̃/
present participle or gerund¹	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		aplati /a.pla.ti/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	aplatis /a.pla.ti/	aplatis /a.pla.ti/	aplatit /a.pla.ti/	aplatissons /a.pla.ti.sɔ̃/	aplatissez /a.pla.ti.se/	aplatissent /a.pla.tis/
	imperfect	aplatissais /a.pla.ti.sɛ/	aplatissais /a.pla.ti.sɛ/	aplatissait /a.pla.ti.sɛ/	aplatissions /a.pla.ti.sjɔ̃/	aplatissiez /a.pla.ti.sje/	aplatissaient /a.pla.ti.sɛ/
	past historic²	aplatis /a.pla.ti/	aplatis /a.pla.ti/	aplatit /a.pla.ti/	aplatîmes /a.pla.tim/	aplatîtes /a.pla.tit/	aplatirent /a.pla.tiʁ/
	future	aplatirai /a.pla.ti.ʁe/	aplatiras /a.pla.ti.ʁa/	aplatira /a.pla.ti.ʁa/	aplatirons /a.pla.ti.ʁɔ̃/	aplatirez /a.pla.ti.ʁe/	aplatiront /a.pla.ti.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	aplatirais /a.pla.ti.ʁɛ/	aplatirais /a.pla.ti.ʁɛ/	aplatirait /a.pla.ti.ʁɛ/	aplatirions /a.pla.ti.ʁjɔ̃/	aplatiriez /a.pla.ti.ʁje/	aplatiraient /a.pla.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	aplatisse /a.pla.tis/	aplatisses /a.pla.tis/	aplatisse /a.pla.tis/	aplatissions /a.pla.ti.sjɔ̃/	aplatissiez /a.pla.ti.sje/	aplatissent /a.pla.tis/
(simple tenses)	imperfect²	aplatisse /a.pla.tis/	aplatisses /a.pla.tis/	aplatît /a.pla.ti/	aplatissions /a.pla.ti.sjɔ̃/	aplatissiez /a.pla.ti.sje/	aplatissent /a.pla.tis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
(compound tenses)	pluperfect²	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	~~nous~~	~~vous~~	–
simple		—	aplatis /a.pla.ti/	—	aplatissons /a.pla.ti.sɔ̃/	aplatissez /a.pla.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).

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