assortir
French
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editVerb
editassortir
- (transitive) to match, match up
- (transitive, of people) to pair up
- (transitive) to supply, stock up; to hook (someone) up with
- (reflexive) to match
- Ton t-shirt s’assortit à ton pantalon. ― Your teeshirt matches your trousers.
Conjugation
editThis 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 assortir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | assortir | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | assortissant /a.sɔʁ.ti.sɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | assorti /a.sɔʁ.ti/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | assortis /a.sɔʁ.ti/ |
assortis /a.sɔʁ.ti/ |
assortit /a.sɔʁ.ti/ |
assortissons /a.sɔʁ.ti.sɔ̃/ |
assortissez /a.sɔʁ.ti.se/ |
assortissent /a.sɔʁ.tis/ |
imperfect | assortissais /a.sɔʁ.ti.sɛ/ |
assortissais /a.sɔʁ.ti.sɛ/ |
assortissait /a.sɔʁ.ti.sɛ/ |
assortissions /a.sɔʁ.ti.sjɔ̃/ |
assortissiez /a.sɔʁ.ti.sje/ |
assortissaient /a.sɔʁ.ti.sɛ/ | |
past historic2 | assortis /a.sɔʁ.ti/ |
assortis /a.sɔʁ.ti/ |
assortit /a.sɔʁ.ti/ |
assortîmes /a.sɔʁ.tim/ |
assortîtes /a.sɔʁ.tit/ |
assortirent /a.sɔʁ.tiʁ/ | |
future | assortirai /a.sɔʁ.ti.ʁe/ |
assortiras /a.sɔʁ.ti.ʁa/ |
assortira /a.sɔʁ.ti.ʁa/ |
assortirons /a.sɔʁ.ti.ʁɔ̃/ |
assortirez /a.sɔʁ.ti.ʁe/ |
assortiront /a.sɔʁ.ti.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | assortirais /a.sɔʁ.ti.ʁɛ/ |
assortirais /a.sɔʁ.ti.ʁɛ/ |
assortirait /a.sɔʁ.ti.ʁɛ/ |
assortirions /a.sɔʁ.ti.ʁjɔ̃/ |
assortiriez /a.sɔʁ.ti.ʁje/ |
assortiraient /a.sɔʁ.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 | assortisse /a.sɔʁ.tis/ |
assortisses /a.sɔʁ.tis/ |
assortisse /a.sɔʁ.tis/ |
assortissions /a.sɔʁ.ti.sjɔ̃/ |
assortissiez /a.sɔʁ.ti.sje/ |
assortissent /a.sɔʁ.tis/ |
imperfect2 | assortisse /a.sɔʁ.tis/ |
assortisses /a.sɔʁ.tis/ |
assortît /a.sɔʁ.ti/ |
assortissions /a.sɔʁ.ti.sjɔ̃/ |
assortissiez /a.sɔʁ.ti.sje/ |
assortissent /a.sɔʁ.tis/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | assortis /a.sɔʁ.ti/ |
— | assortissons /a.sɔʁ.ti.sɔ̃/ |
assortissez /a.sɔʁ.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 terms
editRelated terms
editFurther reading
edit- “assortir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.