évanouir
French
Etymology
From Old French esvanir, evanir, probably from a Vulgar Latin *exvānīre, later influenced from the Latin form ēvānuit (“vanished”) of ēvānescō, ēvānēscere.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /e.va.nwiʁ/
Audio (France, Paris) (file) - Rhymes: -iʁ
Verb
évanouir
- (takes a reflexive pronoun) to lose consciousness; to faint
- (takes a reflexive pronoun, formal) to vanish or disappear without a trace, especially things
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 s'évanouir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| present participle | s'évanouissant /se.va.nwi.sɑ̃/ | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| past participle | évanoui /e.va.nwi/ | ||||||
| infinitive | |||||||
| simple | s'évanouir | ||||||
| compound | s'être + past participle | ||||||
| gerund1 | |||||||
| simple | s'évanouissant /se.va.nwi.sɑ̃/ | ||||||
| compound | s'étant + past participle | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | m'évanouis /me.va.nwi/ |
t'évanouis /te.va.nwi/ |
s'évanouit /se.va.nwi/ |
nous évanouissons /nu.z‿e.va.nwi.sɔ̃/ |
vous évanouissez /vu.z‿e.va.nwi.se/ |
s'évanouissent /se.va.nwis/ |
| imperfect | m'évanouissais /me.va.nwi.sɛ/ |
t'évanouissais /te.va.nwi.sɛ/ |
s'évanouissait /se.va.nwi.sɛ/ |
nous évanouissions /nu.z‿e.va.nwi.sjɔ̃/ |
vous évanouissiez /vu.z‿e.va.nwi.sje/ |
s'évanouissaient /se.va.nwi.sɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | m'évanouis /me.va.nwi/ |
t'évanouis /te.va.nwi/ |
s'évanouit /se.va.nwi/ |
nous évanouîmes /nu.z‿e.va.nwim/ |
vous évanouîtes /vu.z‿e.va.nwit/ |
s'évanouirent /se.va.nwiʁ/ | |
| future | m'évanouirai /me.va.nwi.ʁe/ |
t'évanouiras /te.va.nwi.ʁa/ |
s'évanouira /se.va.nwi.ʁa/ |
nous évanouirons /nu.z‿e.va.nwi.ʁɔ̃/ |
vous évanouirez /vu.z‿e.va.nwi.ʁe/ |
s'évanouiront /se.va.nwi.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | m'évanouirais /me.va.nwi.ʁɛ/ |
t'évanouirais /te.va.nwi.ʁɛ/ |
s'évanouirait /se.va.nwi.ʁɛ/ |
nous évanouirions /nu.z‿e.va.nwi.ʁjɔ̃/ |
vous évanouiriez /vu.z‿e.va.nwi.ʁje/ |
s'évanouiraient /se.va.nwi.ʁɛ/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of s'être + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative of s'être + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior2 | past historic of s'être + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future of s'être + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional of s'être + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | m'évanouisse /me.va.nwis/ |
t'évanouisses /te.va.nwis/ |
s'évanouisse /se.va.nwis/ |
nous évanouissions /nu.z‿e.va.nwi.sjɔ̃/ |
vous évanouissiez /vu.z‿e.va.nwi.sje/ |
s'évanouissent /se.va.nwis/ |
| imperfect2 | m'évanouisse /me.va.nwis/ |
t'évanouisses /te.va.nwis/ |
s'évanouît /se.va.nwi/ |
nous évanouissions /nu.z‿e.va.nwi.sjɔ̃/ |
vous évanouissiez /vu.z‿e.va.nwi.sje/ |
s'évanouissent /se.va.nwis/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of s'être + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of s'être + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | évanouis-toi /e.va.nwi.twa/ |
— | évanouissons-nous /e.va.nwi.sɔ̃.nu/ |
évanouissez-vous /e.va.nwi.se.vu/ |
— | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of s'être + past participle | — | simple imperative of s'être + past participle | simple imperative of s'être + 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
- “évanouir” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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