apaiser
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old French apaisier, from paiz, pais (“peace”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]apaiser
- (transitive) to mollify; to appease, pacify, calm
Conjugation
[edit]Conjugation of apaiser (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | apaiser | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | apaisant /a.pɛ.zɑ̃/ or /a.pe.zɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | apaisé /a.pɛ.ze/ or /a.pe.ze/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | apaise /a.pɛz/ |
apaises /a.pɛz/ |
apaise /a.pɛz/ |
apaisons /a.pɛ.zɔ̃/ or /a.pe.zɔ̃/ |
apaisez /a.pɛ.ze/ or /a.pe.ze/ |
apaisent /a.pɛz/ |
| imperfect | apaisais /a.pɛ.zɛ/ or /a.pe.zɛ/ |
apaisais /a.pɛ.zɛ/ or /a.pe.zɛ/ |
apaisait /a.pɛ.zɛ/ or /a.pe.zɛ/ |
apaisions /a.pɛ.zjɔ̃/ or /a.pe.zjɔ̃/ |
apaisiez /a.pɛ.zje/ or /a.pe.zje/ |
apaisaient /a.pɛ.zɛ/ or /a.pe.zɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | apaisai /a.pɛ.ze/ or /a.pe.ze/ |
apaisas /a.pɛ.za/ or /a.pe.za/ |
apaisa /a.pɛ.za/ or /a.pe.za/ |
apaisâmes /a.pɛ.zam/ or /a.pe.zam/ |
apaisâtes /a.pɛ.zat/ or /a.pe.zat/ |
apaisèrent /a.pɛ.zɛʁ/ or /a.pe.zɛʁ/ | |
| future | apaiserai /a.pɛz.ʁe/ |
apaiseras /a.pɛz.ʁa/ |
apaisera /a.pɛz.ʁa/ |
apaiserons /a.pɛz.ʁɔ̃/ |
apaiserez /a.pɛz.ʁe/ |
apaiseront /a.pɛz.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | apaiserais /a.pɛz.ʁɛ/ |
apaiserais /a.pɛz.ʁɛ/ |
apaiserait /a.pɛz.ʁɛ/ |
apaiserions /a.pɛ.zə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /a.pe.zə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
apaiseriez /a.pɛ.zə.ʁje/ or /a.pe.zə.ʁje/ |
apaiseraient /a.pɛz.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 | apaise /a.pɛz/ |
apaises /a.pɛz/ |
apaise /a.pɛz/ |
apaisions /a.pɛ.zjɔ̃/ or /a.pe.zjɔ̃/ |
apaisiez /a.pɛ.zje/ or /a.pe.zje/ |
apaisent /a.pɛz/ |
| imperfect2 | apaisasse /a.pɛ.zas/ or /a.pe.zas/ |
apaisasses /a.pɛ.zas/ or /a.pe.zas/ |
apaisât /a.pɛ.za/ or /a.pe.za/ |
apaisassions /a.pɛ.za.sjɔ̃/ or /a.pe.za.sjɔ̃/ |
apaisassiez /a.pɛ.za.sje/ or /a.pe.za.sje/ |
apaisassent /a.pɛ.zas/ or /a.pe.zas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | apaise /a.pɛz/ |
— | apaisons /a.pɛ.zɔ̃/ or /a.pe.zɔ̃/ |
apaisez /a.pɛ.ze/ or /a.pe.ze/ |
— | |
| 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). | |||||||
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “apaiser”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.