aveulir

French

Etymology

From a- +‎ veule +‎ -ir.

Pronunciation

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Verb

aveulir

(literary) to enfeeble
(literary) to debase

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 aveulir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	compound	avoir + past participle
infinitive	simple	aveulir
present participle or gerund¹	simple	aveulissant /a.vœ.li.sɑ̃/
present participle or gerund¹	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		aveuli /a.vœ.li/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	aveulis /a.vœ.li/	aveulis /a.vœ.li/	aveulit /a.vœ.li/	aveulissons /a.vœ.li.sɔ̃/	aveulissez /a.vœ.li.se/	aveulissent /a.vœ.lis/
	imperfect	aveulissais /a.vœ.li.sɛ/	aveulissais /a.vœ.li.sɛ/	aveulissait /a.vœ.li.sɛ/	aveulissions /a.vœ.li.sjɔ̃/	aveulissiez /a.vœ.li.sje/	aveulissaient /a.vœ.li.sɛ/
	past historic²	aveulis /a.vœ.li/	aveulis /a.vœ.li/	aveulit /a.vœ.li/	aveulîmes /a.vœ.lim/	aveulîtes /a.vœ.lit/	aveulirent /a.vœ.liʁ/
	future	aveulirai /a.vœ.li.ʁe/	aveuliras /a.vœ.li.ʁa/	aveulira /a.vœ.li.ʁa/	aveulirons /a.vœ.li.ʁɔ̃/	aveulirez /a.vœ.li.ʁe/	aveuliront /a.vœ.li.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	aveulirais /a.vœ.li.ʁɛ/	aveulirais /a.vœ.li.ʁɛ/	aveulirait /a.vœ.li.ʁɛ/	aveulirions /a.vœ.li.ʁjɔ̃/	aveuliriez /a.vœ.li.ʁje/	aveuliraient /a.vœ.li.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	aveulisse /a.vœ.lis/	aveulisses /a.vœ.lis/	aveulisse /a.vœ.lis/	aveulissions /a.vœ.li.sjɔ̃/	aveulissiez /a.vœ.li.sje/	aveulissent /a.vœ.lis/
(simple tenses)	imperfect²	aveulisse /a.vœ.lis/	aveulisses /a.vœ.lis/	aveulît /a.vœ.li/	aveulissions /a.vœ.li.sjɔ̃/	aveulissiez /a.vœ.li.sje/	aveulissent /a.vœ.lis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
(compound tenses)	pluperfect²	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	~~nous~~	~~vous~~	–
simple		—	aveulis /a.vœ.li/	—	aveulissons /a.vœ.li.sɔ̃/	aveulissez /a.vœ.li.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).

Synonyms

affaiblir