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affairer
affairer
French
Verb
affairer
- (intransitive, rare) to absorb
- Il était affairé par son travail.
- He was absorbed in his work.
- Il était affairé par son travail.
- (reflexive) to busy oneself [from 19th c.]
Conjugation
Conjugation of affairer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | affairer | avoir affairé | |||||
| gerund | en affairant | en ayant affairé | |||||
| present participle | affairant /a.fɛ.ʁɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | affairé /a.fɛ.ʁe/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | affaire /a.fɛʁ/ |
affaires /a.fɛʁ/ |
affaire /a.fɛʁ/ |
affairons /a.fɛ.ʁɔ̃/ |
affairez /a.fɛ.ʁe/ |
affairent /a.fɛʁ/ |
| imperfect | affairais /a.fɛ.ʁɛ/ |
affairais /a.fɛ.ʁɛ/ |
affairait /a.fɛ.ʁɛ/ |
affairions /a.fɛ.ʁjɔ̃/ |
affairiez /a.fɛ.ʁje/ |
affairaient /a.fɛ.ʁɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | affairai /a.fɛ.ʁe/ |
affairas /a.fɛ.ʁa/ |
affaira /a.fɛ.ʁa/ |
affairâmes /a.fɛ.ʁam/ |
affairâtes /a.fɛ.ʁat/ |
affairèrent /a.fɛ.ʁɛʁ/ |
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| future | affairerai /a.fɛ.ʁə.ʁe/ |
affaireras /a.fɛ.ʁə.ʁa/ |
affairera /a.fɛ.ʁə.ʁa/ |
affairerons /a.fɛ.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ |
affairerez /a.fɛ.ʁə.ʁe/ |
affaireront /a.fɛ.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | affairerais /a.fɛ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ |
affairerais /a.fɛ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ |
affairerait /a.fɛ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ |
affairerions /a.fɛ.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
affaireriez /a.fɛ.ʁə.ʁje/ |
affaireraient /a.fɛ.ʁə.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 | affaire /a.fɛʁ/ |
affaires /a.fɛʁ/ |
affaire /a.fɛʁ/ |
affairions /a.fɛ.ʁjɔ̃/ |
affairiez /a.fɛ.ʁje/ |
affairent /a.fɛʁ/ |
| imperfect1 |
affairasse /a.fɛ.ʁas/ |
affairasses /a.fɛ.ʁas/ |
affairât /a.fɛ.ʁa/ |
affairassions /a.fɛ.ʁa.sjɔ̃/ |
affairassiez /a.fɛ.ʁa.sje/ |
affairassent /a.fɛ.ʁas/ |
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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 | – | |
| — | affaire /a.fɛʁ/ |
— | affairons /a.fɛ.ʁɔ̃/ |
affairez /a.fɛ.ʁe/ |
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