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aboutir
aboutir
French
Verb
aboutir
- (literally transitive, with à) to lead to, to end up in, to reach
- (figuratively, transitive, with à) to lead to, to have the consequence of
- (intransitive) to reach a conclusion, to succeed
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 aboutir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | aboutir | avoir abouti | |||||
| gerund | en aboutissant | en ayant abouti | |||||
| present participle | aboutissant /a.bu.ti.sɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | abouti /a.bu.ti/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | aboutis /a.bu.ti/ |
aboutis /a.bu.ti/ |
aboutit /a.bu.ti/ |
aboutissons /a.bu.ti.sɔ̃/ |
aboutissez /a.bu.ti.se/ |
aboutissent /a.bu.tis/ |
| imperfect | aboutissais /a.bu.ti.sɛ/ |
aboutissais /a.bu.ti.sɛ/ |
aboutissait /a.bu.ti.sɛ/ |
aboutissions /a.bu.ti.sjɔ̃/ |
aboutissiez /a.bu.ti.sje/ |
aboutissaient /a.bu.ti.sɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | aboutis /a.bu.ti/ |
aboutis /a.bu.ti/ |
aboutit /a.bu.ti/ |
aboutîmes /a.bu.tim/ |
aboutîtes /a.bu.tit/ |
aboutirent /a.bu.tiʁ/ |
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| future | aboutirai /a.bu.ti.ʁe/ |
aboutiras /a.bu.ti.ʁa/ |
aboutira /a.bu.ti.ʁa/ |
aboutirons /a.bu.ti.ʁɔ̃/ |
aboutirez /a.bu.ti.ʁe/ |
aboutiront /a.bu.ti.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | aboutirais /a.bu.ti.ʁɛ/ |
aboutirais /a.bu.ti.ʁɛ/ |
aboutirait /a.bu.ti.ʁɛ/ |
aboutirions /a.bu.ti.ʁjɔ̃/ |
aboutiriez /a.bu.ti.ʁje/ |
aboutiraient /a.bu.ti.ʁɛ/ |
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| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior1 | Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | aboutisse /a.bu.tis/ |
aboutisses /a.bu.tis/ |
aboutisse /a.bu.tis/ |
aboutissions /a.bu.ti.sjɔ̃/ |
aboutissiez /a.bu.ti.sje/ |
aboutissent /a.bu.tis/ |
| imperfect1 |
aboutisse /a.bu.tis/ |
aboutisses /a.bu.tis/ |
aboutît /a.bu.ti/ |
aboutissions /a.bu.ti.sjɔ̃/ |
aboutissiez /a.bu.ti.sje/ |
aboutissent /a.bu.tis/ |
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| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | aboutis /a.bu.ti/ |
— | aboutissons /a.bu.ti.sɔ̃/ |
aboutissez /a.bu.ti.se/ |
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