assourdir

French

Etymology

See a- +‎ sourd +‎ -ir. Compare also Italian assordire.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.suʁ.diʁ/

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Verb

assourdir

1. to deafen

   Synonym: rendre sourd

   Coordinate term: aveugler

2. (phonetics) to devoice

   Synonym: dévoiser

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 assourdir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	assourdir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	assourdissant /a.suʁ.di.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		assourdi /a.suʁ.di/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	assourdis /a.suʁ.di/	assourdis /a.suʁ.di/	assourdit /a.suʁ.di/	assourdissons /a.suʁ.di.sɔ̃/	assourdissez /a.suʁ.di.se/	assourdissent /a.suʁ.dis/
	imperfect	assourdissais /a.suʁ.di.sɛ/	assourdissais /a.suʁ.di.sɛ/	assourdissait /a.suʁ.di.sɛ/	assourdissions /a.suʁ.di.sjɔ̃/	assourdissiez /a.suʁ.di.sje/	assourdissaient /a.suʁ.di.sɛ/
	past historic2	assourdis /a.suʁ.di/	assourdis /a.suʁ.di/	assourdit /a.suʁ.di/	assourdîmes /a.suʁ.dim/	assourdîtes /a.suʁ.dit/	assourdirent /a.suʁ.diʁ/
	future	assourdirai /a.suʁ.di.ʁe/	assourdiras /a.suʁ.di.ʁa/	assourdira /a.suʁ.di.ʁa/	assourdirons /a.suʁ.di.ʁɔ̃/	assourdirez /a.suʁ.di.ʁe/	assourdiront /a.suʁ.di.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	assourdirais /a.suʁ.di.ʁɛ/	assourdirais /a.suʁ.di.ʁɛ/	assourdirait /a.suʁ.di.ʁɛ/	assourdirions /a.suʁ.di.ʁjɔ̃/	assourdiriez /a.suʁ.di.ʁje/	assourdiraient /a.suʁ.di.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	assourdisse /a.suʁ.dis/	assourdisses /a.suʁ.dis/	assourdisse /a.suʁ.dis/	assourdissions /a.suʁ.di.sjɔ̃/	assourdissiez /a.suʁ.di.sje/	assourdissent /a.suʁ.dis/
	imperfect2	assourdisse /a.suʁ.dis/	assourdisses /a.suʁ.dis/	assourdît /a.suʁ.di/	assourdissions /a.suʁ.di.sjɔ̃/	assourdissiez /a.suʁ.di.sje/	assourdissent /a.suʁ.dis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	assourdis /a.suʁ.di/	—	assourdissons /a.suʁ.di.sɔ̃/	assourdissez /a.suʁ.di.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).

Derived terms

• assourdissable
• assourdissant

Further reading

• “assourdir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.