effriter
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /e.fʁi.te/
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Verb
effriter
- (transitive) to break up, crumble
- (pronominal) to crumble
- 2025 April 24, “La popularité de Trump s’effrite”, in bilan.ch[1]:
- La popularité de Trump s’effrite
- Trump's popularity is crumbling.
Conjugation
Conjugation of effriter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | effriter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | effritant /e.fʁi.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | effrité /e.fʁi.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | effrite /e.fʁit/ |
effrites /e.fʁit/ |
effrite /e.fʁit/ |
effritons /e.fʁi.tɔ̃/ |
effritez /e.fʁi.te/ |
effritent /e.fʁit/ |
| imperfect | effritais /e.fʁi.tɛ/ |
effritais /e.fʁi.tɛ/ |
effritait /e.fʁi.tɛ/ |
effritions /e.fʁi.tjɔ̃/ |
effritiez /e.fʁi.tje/ |
effritaient /e.fʁi.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | effritai /e.fʁi.te/ |
effritas /e.fʁi.ta/ |
effrita /e.fʁi.ta/ |
effritâmes /e.fʁi.tam/ |
effritâtes /e.fʁi.tat/ |
effritèrent /e.fʁi.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | effriterai /e.fʁi.tʁe/ |
effriteras /e.fʁi.tʁa/ |
effritera /e.fʁi.tʁa/ |
effriterons /e.fʁi.tʁɔ̃/ |
effriterez /e.fʁi.tʁe/ |
effriteront /e.fʁi.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | effriterais /e.fʁi.tʁɛ/ |
effriterais /e.fʁi.tʁɛ/ |
effriterait /e.fʁi.tʁɛ/ |
effriterions /e.fʁi.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
effriteriez /e.fʁi.tə.ʁje/ |
effriteraient /e.fʁi.tʁɛ/ | |
| (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 | effrite /e.fʁit/ |
effrites /e.fʁit/ |
effrite /e.fʁit/ |
effritions /e.fʁi.tjɔ̃/ |
effritiez /e.fʁi.tje/ |
effritent /e.fʁit/ |
| imperfect2 | effritasse /e.fʁi.tas/ |
effritasses /e.fʁi.tas/ |
effritât /e.fʁi.ta/ |
effritassions /e.fʁi.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
effritassiez /e.fʁi.ta.sje/ |
effritassent /e.fʁi.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | effrite /e.fʁit/ |
— | effritons /e.fʁi.tɔ̃/ |
effritez /e.fʁi.te/ |
— | |
| 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). | |||||||
Further reading
- “effriter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.