asiner

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.zi.ne/

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Verb

asiner

1. to play the fool

Conjugation

Conjugation of asiner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	asiner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	asinant /a.zi.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		asiné /a.zi.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	asine /a.zin/	asines /a.zin/	asine /a.zin/	asinons /a.zi.nɔ̃/	asinez /a.zi.ne/	asinent /a.zin/
	imperfect	asinais /a.zi.nɛ/	asinais /a.zi.nɛ/	asinait /a.zi.nɛ/	asinions /a.zi.njɔ̃/	asiniez /a.zi.nje/	asinaient /a.zi.nɛ/
	past historic2	asinai /a.zi.ne/	asinas /a.zi.na/	asina /a.zi.na/	asinâmes /a.zi.nam/	asinâtes /a.zi.nat/	asinèrent /a.zi.nɛʁ/
	future	asinerai /a.zin.ʁe/	asineras /a.zin.ʁa/	asinera /a.zin.ʁa/	asinerons /a.zin.ʁɔ̃/	asinerez /a.zin.ʁe/	asineront /a.zin.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	asinerais /a.zin.ʁɛ/	asinerais /a.zin.ʁɛ/	asinerait /a.zin.ʁɛ/	asinerions /a.zi.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	asineriez /a.zi.nə.ʁje/	asineraient /a.zin.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	asine /a.zin/	asines /a.zin/	asine /a.zin/	asinions /a.zi.njɔ̃/	asiniez /a.zi.nje/	asinent /a.zin/
	imperfect2	asinasse /a.zi.nas/	asinasses /a.zi.nas/	asinât /a.zi.na/	asinassions /a.zi.na.sjɔ̃/	asinassiez /a.zi.na.sje/	asinassent /a.zi.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	asine /a.zin/	—	asinons /a.zi.nɔ̃/	asinez /a.zi.ne/	—
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).