éblouir
French
Etymology
From Middle French esblouir, from Old French esbleuir (“to dazzle”), from Medieval Latin *exblaudō (“I dazzle”, verb), from ex- + *blaudō (“I overwhelm, I make someone weak”, verb), from Frankish *blōthijan, *blauthijan (“to overcome, make weak”), from Proto-Germanic *blauþijaną (“to make weak, make void, soften”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰlaw- (“weak, frightened, timid”). Cognate with Old High German blōdi (“sluggish, feeble, physically weak”) ( > German blöde), Old English blēaþ (“gentle, timid, peaceful, inactive”), Danish blød (“soft”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /e.blu.iʁ/
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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-.
| present participle | éblouissant /e.blu.i.sɑ̃/ | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| past participle | ébloui /e.blu.i/ | ||||||
| infinitive | |||||||
| simple | éblouir | ||||||
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| gerund1 | |||||||
| simple | éblouissant /e.blu.i.sɑ̃/ | ||||||
| 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 | éblouis /e.blu.i/ |
éblouis /e.blu.i/ |
éblouit /e.blu.i/ |
éblouissons /e.blu.i.sɔ̃/ |
éblouissez /e.blu.i.se/ |
éblouissent /e.blu.is/ |
| imperfect | éblouissais /e.blu.i.sɛ/ |
éblouissais /e.blu.i.sɛ/ |
éblouissait /e.blu.i.sɛ/ |
éblouissions /e.blu.i.sjɔ̃/ |
éblouissiez /e.blu.i.sje/ |
éblouissaient /e.blu.i.sɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | éblouis /e.blu.i/ |
éblouis /e.blu.i/ |
éblouit /e.blu.i/ |
éblouîmes /e.blu.im/ |
éblouîtes /e.blu.it/ |
éblouirent /e.blu.iʁ/ | |
| future | éblouirai /e.blu.i.ʁe/ |
éblouiras /e.blu.i.ʁa/ |
éblouira /e.blu.i.ʁa/ |
éblouirons /e.blu.i.ʁɔ̃/ |
éblouirez /e.blu.i.ʁe/ |
éblouiront /e.blu.i.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | éblouirais /e.blu.i.ʁɛ/ |
éblouirais /e.blu.i.ʁɛ/ |
éblouirait /e.blu.i.ʁɛ/ |
éblouirions /e.blu.i.ʁjɔ̃/ |
éblouiriez /e.blu.i.ʁje/ |
éblouiraient /e.blu.i.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 | éblouisse /e.blu.is/ |
éblouisses /e.blu.is/ |
éblouisse /e.blu.is/ |
éblouissions /e.blu.i.sjɔ̃/ |
éblouissiez /e.blu.i.sje/ |
éblouissent /e.blu.is/ |
| imperfect2 | éblouisse /e.blu.is/ |
éblouisses /e.blu.is/ |
éblouît /e.blu.i/ |
éblouissions /e.blu.i.sjɔ̃/ |
éblouissiez /e.blu.i.sje/ |
éblouissent /e.blu.is/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | éblouis /e.blu.i/ |
— | éblouissons /e.blu.i.sɔ̃/ |
éblouissez /e.blu.i.se/ |
— | |
| 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
- “éblouir” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).