infirmer
English
Adjective
infirmer
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin īnfirmāre (infinitive īnfirmāre).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɛ̃.fiʁ.me/
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Verb
infirmer
- to weaken, to undermine (a theory, a testimony, etc.)
- (law) to invalidate
Conjugation
Conjugation of infirmer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | infirmer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | infirmant /ɛ̃.fiʁ.mɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | infirmé /ɛ̃.fiʁ.me/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | infirme /ɛ̃.fiʁm/ |
infirmes /ɛ̃.fiʁm/ |
infirme /ɛ̃.fiʁm/ |
infirmons /ɛ̃.fiʁ.mɔ̃/ |
infirmez /ɛ̃.fiʁ.me/ |
infirment /ɛ̃.fiʁm/ |
| imperfect | infirmais /ɛ̃.fiʁ.mɛ/ |
infirmais /ɛ̃.fiʁ.mɛ/ |
infirmait /ɛ̃.fiʁ.mɛ/ |
infirmions /ɛ̃.fiʁ.mjɔ̃/ |
infirmiez /ɛ̃.fiʁ.mje/ |
infirmaient /ɛ̃.fiʁ.mɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | infirmai /ɛ̃.fiʁ.me/ |
infirmas /ɛ̃.fiʁ.ma/ |
infirma /ɛ̃.fiʁ.ma/ |
infirmâmes /ɛ̃.fiʁ.mam/ |
infirmâtes /ɛ̃.fiʁ.mat/ |
infirmèrent /ɛ̃.fiʁ.mɛʁ/ | |
| future | infirmerai /ɛ̃.fiʁ.mə.ʁe/ |
infirmeras /ɛ̃.fiʁ.mə.ʁa/ |
infirmera /ɛ̃.fiʁ.mə.ʁa/ |
infirmerons /ɛ̃.fiʁ.mə.ʁɔ̃/ |
infirmerez /ɛ̃.fiʁ.mə.ʁe/ |
infirmeront /ɛ̃.fiʁ.mə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | infirmerais /ɛ̃.fiʁ.mə.ʁɛ/ |
infirmerais /ɛ̃.fiʁ.mə.ʁɛ/ |
infirmerait /ɛ̃.fiʁ.mə.ʁɛ/ |
infirmerions /ɛ̃.fiʁ.mə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
infirmeriez /ɛ̃.fiʁ.mə.ʁje/ |
infirmeraient /ɛ̃.fiʁ.mə.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 | infirme /ɛ̃.fiʁm/ |
infirmes /ɛ̃.fiʁm/ |
infirme /ɛ̃.fiʁm/ |
infirmions /ɛ̃.fiʁ.mjɔ̃/ |
infirmiez /ɛ̃.fiʁ.mje/ |
infirment /ɛ̃.fiʁm/ |
| imperfect2 | infirmasse /ɛ̃.fiʁ.mas/ |
infirmasses /ɛ̃.fiʁ.mas/ |
infirmât /ɛ̃.fiʁ.ma/ |
infirmassions /ɛ̃.fiʁ.ma.sjɔ̃/ |
infirmassiez /ɛ̃.fiʁ.ma.sje/ |
infirmassent /ɛ̃.fiʁ.mas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | infirme /ɛ̃.fiʁm/ |
— | infirmons /ɛ̃.fiʁ.mɔ̃/ |
infirmez /ɛ̃.fiʁ.me/ |
— | |
| 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). | |||||||
Further reading
- “infirmer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
Verb
īnfirmer
- first-person singular present passive subjunctive of īnfirmō