abroutir

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French[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /a.bʁu.tiʁ/
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Verb[edit]

abroutir

  1. (transitive, agriculture, obsolete) to eat the young shoots of or off
    • 1885, Octave Mirbeau, “Ma Chaumière”, in Lettres de ma chaumière:
      […] , et les troupeaux de moutons […] grimpent aux talus abroutis, sous la garde du chien pasteur. — and the sheep herds climb up the overgrazed slopes under the guard of the herding dog.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Conjugation[edit]

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 abroutir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive simple abroutir
compound avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1 simple abroutissant
/a.bʁu.ti.sɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
past participle abrouti
/a.bʁu.ti/
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle, on nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses) 		present abroutis
/a.bʁu.ti/ 		abroutis
/a.bʁu.ti/ 		abroutit
/a.bʁu.ti/ 		abroutissons
/a.bʁu.ti.sɔ̃/ 		abroutissez
/a.bʁu.ti.se/ 		abroutissent
/a.bʁu.tis/
imperfect abroutissais
/a.bʁu.ti.sɛ/ 		abroutissais
/a.bʁu.ti.sɛ/ 		abroutissait
/a.bʁu.ti.sɛ/ 		abroutissions
/a.bʁu.ti.sjɔ̃/ 		abroutissiez
/a.bʁu.ti.sje/ 		abroutissaient
/a.bʁu.ti.sɛ/
past historic2 abroutis
/a.bʁu.ti/ 		abroutis
/a.bʁu.ti/ 		abroutit
/a.bʁu.ti/ 		abroutîmes
/a.bʁu.tim/ 		abroutîtes
/a.bʁu.tit/ 		abroutirent
/a.bʁu.tiʁ/
future abroutirai
/a.bʁu.ti.ʁe/ 		abroutiras
/a.bʁu.ti.ʁa/ 		abroutira
/a.bʁu.ti.ʁa/ 		abroutirons
/a.bʁu.ti.ʁɔ̃/ 		abroutirez
/a.bʁu.ti.ʁe/ 		abroutiront
/a.bʁu.ti.ʁɔ̃/
conditional abroutirais
/a.bʁu.ti.ʁɛ/ 		abroutirais
/a.bʁu.ti.ʁɛ/ 		abroutirait
/a.bʁu.ti.ʁɛ/ 		abroutirions
/a.bʁu.ti.ʁjɔ̃/ 		abroutiriez
/a.bʁu.ti.ʁje/ 		abroutiraient
/a.bʁu.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 abroutisse
/a.bʁu.tis/ 		abroutisses
/a.bʁu.tis/ 		abroutisse
/a.bʁu.tis/ 		abroutissions
/a.bʁu.ti.sjɔ̃/ 		abroutissiez
/a.bʁu.ti.sje/ 		abroutissent
/a.bʁu.tis/
imperfect2 abroutisse
/a.bʁu.tis/ 		abroutisses
/a.bʁu.tis/ 		abroutît
/a.bʁu.ti/ 		abroutissions
/a.bʁu.ti.sjɔ̃/ 		abroutissiez
/a.bʁu.ti.sje/ 		abroutissent
/a.bʁu.tis/
(compound
tenses) 		past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — abroutis
/a.bʁu.ti/ 		— abroutissons
/a.bʁu.ti.sɔ̃/ 		abroutissez
/a.bʁu.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:
  • 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).

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