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agir
agir
See also: ağır
Catalan
Verb
agir (first-person singular present ageixi, past participle agit)
- (Roussillon) to act, behave
- (reflexive, Roussillon) To be all about
Synonyms
French
Etymology
From Latin agere, present active infinitive of agō.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.ʒiʁ/
Verb
agir
- (intransitive) To act
- Il faut agir pour lutter contre la pauvreté.
- We must act in order to fight poverty.
- Il faut agir pour lutter contre la pauvreté.
- (intransitive) to act, to do [something]
- Il n’agit pas comme il devrait.
- He’s not doing as he should.
- Il n’agit pas comme il devrait.
- (intransitive) to act, behave
- Vous agissez en enfants.
- You’re acting like children.
- Il agit comme un fou.
- He’s acting like a madman.
- Vous agissez en enfants.
- (intransitive, followed by sur) to act on
- (law, followed by contre) prosecute, sue
- (reflexive, followed by de) To be all about
- Dans le livre il s’agit d’une femme perdue.
- The book is about a lost woman.
- Il s’agit de vous en tirer honorablement.
- It’s all about you getting out of there honorably.
- Dans la vie; il s’agit de faire son devoir.
- Life is all about doing your duty.
- Il s’agissait de choisir entre les ducs.
- It was about choosing between the two dukes.
- Dans le livre il s’agit d’une femme perdue.
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 agir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | agir | avoir agi | |||||
| gerund | en agissant | en ayant agi | |||||
| present participle | agissant /a.ʒi.sɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | agi /a.ʒi/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | agis /a.ʒi/ |
agis /a.ʒi/ |
agit /a.ʒi/ |
agissons /a.ʒi.sɔ̃/ |
agissez /a.ʒi.se/ |
agissent /a.ʒis/ |
| imperfect | agissais /a.ʒi.sɛ/ |
agissais /a.ʒi.sɛ/ |
agissait /a.ʒi.sɛ/ |
agissions /a.ʒi.sjɔ̃/ |
agissiez /a.ʒi.sje/ |
agissaient /a.ʒi.sɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | agis /a.ʒi/ |
agis /a.ʒi/ |
agit /a.ʒi/ |
agîmes /a.ʒim/ |
agîtes /a.ʒit/ |
agirent /a.ʒiʁ/ |
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| future | agirai /a.ʒi.ʁe/ |
agiras /a.ʒi.ʁa/ |
agira /a.ʒi.ʁa/ |
agirons /a.ʒi.ʁɔ̃/ |
agirez /a.ʒi.ʁe/ |
agiront /a.ʒi.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | agirais /a.ʒi.ʁɛ/ |
agirais /a.ʒi.ʁɛ/ |
agirait /a.ʒi.ʁɛ/ |
agirions /a.ʒi.ʁjɔ̃/ |
agiriez /a.ʒi.ʁje/ |
agiraient /a.ʒi.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 | agisse /a.ʒis/ |
agisses /a.ʒis/ |
agisse /a.ʒis/ |
agissions /a.ʒi.sjɔ̃/ |
agissiez /a.ʒi.sje/ |
agissent /a.ʒis/ |
| imperfect1 |
agisse /a.ʒis/ |
agisses /a.ʒis/ |
agît /a.ʒi/ |
agissions /a.ʒi.sjɔ̃/ |
agissiez /a.ʒi.sje/ |
agissent /a.ʒis/ |
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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 | – | |
| — | agis /a.ʒi/ |
— | agissons /a.ʒi.sɔ̃/ |
agissez /a.ʒi.se/ |
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| 1literary tenses | |||||||
Related terms
Anagrams
Kurdish
Etymology
From Proto-Iranian, from Proto-Indo-Iranian, from Proto-Indo-European *HeHter-, *h₁eh₂ter-, *eh₂ter- (“fire”). Compare Persian آذر (âzar), Avestan 𐬁𐬙𐬀𐬭𐬱 (ātarš, “fire”), Ossetian арт (art), Pashto [script needed] (or); compare also Old Armenian այրեմ (ayrem), Serbo-Croatian vatra, Irish áith (“kiln”), Welsh odyn, Umbrian [script needed] (atru), and Latin āter, which may be derived from the same ultimate root.
Noun
agir m
Portuguese
Etymology
From Latin agere, present active infinitive of agō.
Pronunciation
Verb
agir (first-person singular present indicative ajo, past participle agido)
- (intransitive) To do something; to act; to function; to perform.
- (intransitive) To conduct oneself in a specific manner; to behave; to proceed.
Conjugation
Conjugation of the Portuguese -ir verb agir
| Notes:[edit] | ||||||
| Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First-person (eu) |
Second-person (tu) |
Third-person (ele / ela / você) |
First-person (nós) |
Second-person (vós) |
Third-person (eles / elas / vocês) |
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| Infinitive | ||||||
| Impersonal | agir | |||||
| Personal | agir | agires | agir | agirmos | agirdes | agirem |
| Gerund | ||||||
| agindo | ||||||
| Past participle | ||||||
| Masculine | agido | agidos | ||||
| Feminine | agida | agidas | ||||
| Indicative | ||||||
| Present | ajo | ages | age | agimos | agis | agem |
| Imperfect | agia | agias | agia | agíamos | agíeis | agiam |
| Preterite | agi | agiste | agiu | agimos | agistes | agiram |
| Pluperfect | agira | agiras | agira | agíramos | agíreis | agiram |
| Future | agirei | agirás | agirá | agiremos | agireis | agirão |
| Conditional | ||||||
| agiria | agirias | agiria | agiríamos | agiríeis | agiriam | |
| Subjunctive | ||||||
| Present | aja | ajas | aja | ajamos | ajais | ajam |
| Imperfect | agisse | agisses | agisse | agíssemos | agísseis | agissem |
| Future | agir | agires | agir | agirmos | agirdes | agirem |
| Imperative | ||||||
| Affirmative | - | age | aja | ajamos | agi | ajam |
| Negative (não) | - | ajas | aja | ajamos | ajais | ajam |
Synonyms
- (to perform): andar, funcionar, trabalhar
- (to behave): agir, atuar, comportar-se, obrar, proceder, trabalhar
Antonyms
- (to behave): omitir-se