alentir

Catalan

Etymology

From a- +‎ lent +‎ -ir.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ə.lənˈti]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [a.lenˈtiɾ]
• Rhymes: -i(ɾ)

Verb

alentir (first-person singular present alenteixo, first-person singular preterite alentí, past participle alentit)

1. (transitive, reflexive) to slow, to slow down

Conjugation

    Conjugation of alentir (third conjugation, with -eix-)

infinitive			alentir
gerund			alentint
past participle				masculine		feminine
		singular		alentit		alentida
		plural		alentits		alentides
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		jo	tu	ell/ella vostè	nosaltres nós	vosaltres vós	ells/elles vostès
	present	alenteixo	alenteixes	alenteix	alentim	alentiu	alenteixen
	imperfect	alentia	alenties	alentia	alentíem	alentíeu	alentien
	future	alentiré	alentiràs	alentirà	alentirem	alentireu	alentiran
	preterite	alentí	alentires	alentí	alentírem	alentíreu	alentiren
	conditional	alentiria	alentiries	alentiria	alentiríem	alentiríeu	alentirien
subjunctive		jo	tu	ell/ella vostè	nosaltres nós	vosaltres vós	ells/elles vostès
	present	alenteixi	alenteixis	alenteixi	alentim	alentiu	alenteixin
	imperfect	alentís	alentissis	alentís	alentíssim	alentíssiu	alentissin
imperative		—	tu	vostè	nosaltres	vosaltres vós	vostès
	affirmative	—	alenteix	alenteixi	alentim	alentiu	alenteixin
	negative (no)	—	no alenteixis	no alenteixi	no alentim	no alentiu	no alenteixin

Derived terms

• alentidor
• alentiment
• alentit

Further reading

• “alentir” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “alentir”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “alentir” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “alentir” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Etymology

From a- +‎ lent +‎ -ir.

Pronunciation

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Verb

alentir

1. (chiefly obsolete) to slow down

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 alentir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	alentir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	alentissant /a.lɑ̃.ti.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		alenti /a.lɑ̃.ti/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	alentis /a.lɑ̃.ti/	alentis /a.lɑ̃.ti/	alentit /a.lɑ̃.ti/	alentissons /a.lɑ̃.ti.sɔ̃/	alentissez /a.lɑ̃.ti.se/	alentissent /a.lɑ̃.tis/
	imperfect	alentissais /a.lɑ̃.ti.sɛ/	alentissais /a.lɑ̃.ti.sɛ/	alentissait /a.lɑ̃.ti.sɛ/	alentissions /a.lɑ̃.ti.sjɔ̃/	alentissiez /a.lɑ̃.ti.sje/	alentissaient /a.lɑ̃.ti.sɛ/
	past historic2	alentis /a.lɑ̃.ti/	alentis /a.lɑ̃.ti/	alentit /a.lɑ̃.ti/	alentîmes /a.lɑ̃.tim/	alentîtes /a.lɑ̃.tit/	alentirent /a.lɑ̃.tiʁ/
	future	alentirai /a.lɑ̃.ti.ʁe/	alentiras /a.lɑ̃.ti.ʁa/	alentira /a.lɑ̃.ti.ʁa/	alentirons /a.lɑ̃.ti.ʁɔ̃/	alentirez /a.lɑ̃.ti.ʁe/	alentiront /a.lɑ̃.ti.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	alentirais /a.lɑ̃.ti.ʁɛ/	alentirais /a.lɑ̃.ti.ʁɛ/	alentirait /a.lɑ̃.ti.ʁɛ/	alentirions /a.lɑ̃.ti.ʁjɔ̃/	alentiriez /a.lɑ̃.ti.ʁje/	alentiraient /a.lɑ̃.ti.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	alentisse /a.lɑ̃.tis/	alentisses /a.lɑ̃.tis/	alentisse /a.lɑ̃.tis/	alentissions /a.lɑ̃.ti.sjɔ̃/	alentissiez /a.lɑ̃.ti.sje/	alentissent /a.lɑ̃.tis/
	imperfect2	alentisse /a.lɑ̃.tis/	alentisses /a.lɑ̃.tis/	alentît /a.lɑ̃.ti/	alentissions /a.lɑ̃.ti.sjɔ̃/	alentissiez /a.lɑ̃.ti.sje/	alentissent /a.lɑ̃.tis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	alentis /a.lɑ̃.ti/	—	alentissons /a.lɑ̃.ti.sɔ̃/	alentissez /a.lɑ̃.ti.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).

Synonyms

• ralentir (much more common)

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• ralenti, reliant

Occitan

Etymology

a- +‎ lent +‎ -ir

Verb

alentir

1. to slow down

Conjugation

This verb needs an inflection-table template.