lubrifier

French

Etymology

From Latin lūbricus +‎ -ifier.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ly.bʁi.fje/

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Verb

lubrifier

1. (transitive) to lubricate (make slippery or smooth)
2. (passive pronominal) to be lubricated

Conjugation

Conjugation of lubrifier (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	lubrifier
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	lubrifiant /ly.bʁi.fjɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		lubrifié /ly.bʁi.fje/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	lubrifie /ly.bʁi.fi/	lubrifies /ly.bʁi.fi/	lubrifie /ly.bʁi.fi/	lubrifions /ly.bʁi.fjɔ̃/	lubrifiez /ly.bʁi.fje/	lubrifient /ly.bʁi.fi/
	imperfect	lubrifiais /ly.bʁi.fjɛ/	lubrifiais /ly.bʁi.fjɛ/	lubrifiait /ly.bʁi.fjɛ/	lubrifiions /ly.bʁi.fi.jɔ̃/	lubrifiiez /ly.bʁi.fi.je/	lubrifiaient /ly.bʁi.fjɛ/
	past historic2	lubrifiai /ly.bʁi.fje/	lubrifias /ly.bʁi.fja/	lubrifia /ly.bʁi.fja/	lubrifiâmes /ly.bʁi.fjam/	lubrifiâtes /ly.bʁi.fjat/	lubrifièrent /ly.bʁi.fjɛʁ/
	future	lubrifierai /ly.bʁi.fi.ʁe/	lubrifieras /ly.bʁi.fi.ʁa/	lubrifiera /ly.bʁi.fi.ʁa/	lubrifierons /ly.bʁi.fi.ʁɔ̃/	lubrifierez /ly.bʁi.fi.ʁe/	lubrifieront /ly.bʁi.fi.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	lubrifierais /ly.bʁi.fi.ʁɛ/	lubrifierais /ly.bʁi.fi.ʁɛ/	lubrifierait /ly.bʁi.fi.ʁɛ/	lubrifierions /ly.bʁi.fi.ʁjɔ̃/	lubrifieriez /ly.bʁi.fi.ʁje/	lubrifieraient /ly.bʁi.fi.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	lubrifie /ly.bʁi.fi/	lubrifies /ly.bʁi.fi/	lubrifie /ly.bʁi.fi/	lubrifiions /ly.bʁi.fi.jɔ̃/	lubrifiiez /ly.bʁi.fi.je/	lubrifient /ly.bʁi.fi/
	imperfect2	lubrifiasse /ly.bʁi.fjas/	lubrifiasses /ly.bʁi.fjas/	lubrifiât /ly.bʁi.fja/	lubrifiassions /ly.bʁi.fja.sjɔ̃/	lubrifiassiez /ly.bʁi.fja.sje/	lubrifiassent /ly.bʁi.fjas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	lubrifie /ly.bʁi.fi/	—	lubrifions /ly.bʁi.fjɔ̃/	lubrifiez /ly.bʁi.fje/	—
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).

Hyponyms

• graisser
• huiler

Related terms

• lubrifiant
• lubrification

References

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