vitrifier
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /vi.tʁi.fje/
Verb
vitrifier
- to vitrify
- Vitrifier le sable.
- To convert sand to glass.
- to make solid as glass
- Je n'en ai gardé souvenir de rien de précis [de ces quelques jours passés avec Pierre Louis], mais bien seulement d'une extraordinaire ferveur, d'une joie, d'une frénésie qui m'éveillait dès l'aube, éternisait chaque instant de chaque heure, vitrifiait ou volatilisait tout ce qui s'approchait de mon cœur.(André Gide, Si le grain ne meurt, 1924)
- I wouldn't dare depict any specific memory [of these few past days with Pierre Louis], but only a special fervor, a joy, a frenzy that awoke me at dawn, that dragged every moment of every hour, that vitrified, volatilized anything approaching my heart.
- to lacquer, give something a smooth, glassy finish
- Vitrifier un plancher.
- To lacquer the floor.
Conjugation
Conjugation of vitrifier (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| present participle | vitrifiant /vi.tʁi.fjɑ̃/ | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| past participle | vitrifié /vi.tʁi.fje/ | ||||||
| infinitive | |||||||
| simple | vitrifier | ||||||
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| gerund1 | |||||||
| simple | vitrifiant /vi.tʁi.fjɑ̃/ | ||||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | vitrifie /vi.tʁi.fi/ |
vitrifies /vi.tʁi.fi/ |
vitrifie /vi.tʁi.fi/ |
vitrifions /vi.tʁi.fjɔ̃/ |
vitrifiez /vi.tʁi.fje/ |
vitrifient /vi.tʁi.fi/ |
| imperfect | vitrifiais /vi.tʁi.fjɛ/ |
vitrifiais /vi.tʁi.fjɛ/ |
vitrifiait /vi.tʁi.fjɛ/ |
vitrifiions /vi.tʁi.fi.jɔ̃/ |
vitrifiiez /vi.tʁi.fi.je/ |
vitrifiaient /vi.tʁi.fjɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | vitrifiai /vi.tʁi.fje/ |
vitrifias /vi.tʁi.fja/ |
vitrifia /vi.tʁi.fja/ |
vitrifiâmes /vi.tʁi.fjam/ |
vitrifiâtes /vi.tʁi.fjat/ |
vitrifièrent /vi.tʁi.fjɛʁ/ | |
| future | vitrifierai /vi.tʁi.fi.ʁe/ |
vitrifieras /vi.tʁi.fi.ʁa/ |
vitrifiera /vi.tʁi.fi.ʁa/ |
vitrifierons /vi.tʁi.fi.ʁɔ̃/ |
vitrifierez /vi.tʁi.fi.ʁe/ |
vitrifieront /vi.tʁi.fi.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | vitrifierais /vi.tʁi.fi.ʁɛ/ |
vitrifierais /vi.tʁi.fi.ʁɛ/ |
vitrifierait /vi.tʁi.fi.ʁɛ/ |
vitrifierions /vi.tʁi.fi.ʁjɔ̃/ |
vitrifieriez /vi.tʁi.fi.ʁje/ |
vitrifieraient /vi.tʁi.fi.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 | vitrifie /vi.tʁi.fi/ |
vitrifies /vi.tʁi.fi/ |
vitrifie /vi.tʁi.fi/ |
vitrifiions /vi.tʁi.fi.jɔ̃/ |
vitrifiiez /vi.tʁi.fi.je/ |
vitrifient /vi.tʁi.fi/ |
| imperfect2 | vitrifiasse /vi.tʁi.fjas/ |
vitrifiasses /vi.tʁi.fjas/ |
vitrifiât /vi.tʁi.fja/ |
vitrifiassions /vi.tʁi.fja.sjɔ̃/ |
vitrifiassiez /vi.tʁi.fja.sje/ |
vitrifiassent /vi.tʁi.fjas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | vitrifie /vi.tʁi.fi/ |
— | vitrifions /vi.tʁi.fjɔ̃/ |
vitrifiez /vi.tʁi.fje/ |
— | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 Only usable with preposition en. | |||||||
| 2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Derived terms
Further reading
- “vitrifier” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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