avoisiner

French

Etymology

From a- +‎ voisin (“neighbor”) +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.vwa.zi.ne/

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Verb

avoisiner

1. (transitive) to neighbor/neighbour (to be near to, or the neighbor of)
2. (transitive) to border on (be similar to)

   Synonym: approcher

Conjugation

Conjugation of avoisiner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	avoisiner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	avoisinant /a.vwa.zi.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		avoisiné /a.vwa.zi.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	avoisine /a.vwa.zin/	avoisines /a.vwa.zin/	avoisine /a.vwa.zin/	avoisinons /a.vwa.zi.nɔ̃/	avoisinez /a.vwa.zi.ne/	avoisinent /a.vwa.zin/
	imperfect	avoisinais /a.vwa.zi.nɛ/	avoisinais /a.vwa.zi.nɛ/	avoisinait /a.vwa.zi.nɛ/	avoisinions /a.vwa.zi.njɔ̃/	avoisiniez /a.vwa.zi.nje/	avoisinaient /a.vwa.zi.nɛ/
	past historic2	avoisinai /a.vwa.zi.ne/	avoisinas /a.vwa.zi.na/	avoisina /a.vwa.zi.na/	avoisinâmes /a.vwa.zi.nam/	avoisinâtes /a.vwa.zi.nat/	avoisinèrent /a.vwa.zi.nɛʁ/
	future	avoisinerai /a.vwa.zin.ʁe/	avoisineras /a.vwa.zin.ʁa/	avoisinera /a.vwa.zin.ʁa/	avoisinerons /a.vwa.zin.ʁɔ̃/	avoisinerez /a.vwa.zin.ʁe/	avoisineront /a.vwa.zin.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	avoisinerais /a.vwa.zin.ʁɛ/	avoisinerais /a.vwa.zin.ʁɛ/	avoisinerait /a.vwa.zin.ʁɛ/	avoisinerions /a.vwa.zi.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	avoisineriez /a.vwa.zi.nə.ʁje/	avoisineraient /a.vwa.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	avoisine /a.vwa.zin/	avoisines /a.vwa.zin/	avoisine /a.vwa.zin/	avoisinions /a.vwa.zi.njɔ̃/	avoisiniez /a.vwa.zi.nje/	avoisinent /a.vwa.zin/
	imperfect2	avoisinasse /a.vwa.zi.nas/	avoisinasses /a.vwa.zi.nas/	avoisinât /a.vwa.zi.na/	avoisinassions /a.vwa.zi.na.sjɔ̃/	avoisinassiez /a.vwa.zi.na.sje/	avoisinassent /a.vwa.zi.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	avoisine /a.vwa.zin/	—	avoisinons /a.vwa.zi.nɔ̃/	avoisinez /a.vwa.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).

Related terms

• voisiner

Further reading

• “avoisiner”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• voisinera