incendier

French

Etymology

From incendie +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

Verb

incendier

  1. (transitive) to burn down
    Des pyromanes ont incendié le bâtiment la nuit dernière. ― Pyromaniacs burned down the building last night.
  2. to roast (criticize severely)

Conjugation
Conjugation of incendier (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive simple incendier
compound avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1 simple incendiant
/ɛ̃.sɑ̃.djɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
past participle incendié
/ɛ̃.sɑ̃.dje/
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle, on nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses)		 present incendie
/ɛ̃.sɑ̃.di/		 incendies
/ɛ̃.sɑ̃.di/		 incendie
/ɛ̃.sɑ̃.di/		 incendions
/ɛ̃.sɑ̃.djɔ̃/		 incendiez
/ɛ̃.sɑ̃.dje/		 incendient
/ɛ̃.sɑ̃.di/
imperfect incendiais
/ɛ̃.sɑ̃.djɛ/		 incendiais
/ɛ̃.sɑ̃.djɛ/		 incendiait
/ɛ̃.sɑ̃.djɛ/		 incendiions
/ɛ̃.sɑ̃.di.jɔ̃/		 incendiiez
/ɛ̃.sɑ̃.di.je/		 incendiaient
/ɛ̃.sɑ̃.djɛ/
past historic2 incendiai
/ɛ̃.sɑ̃.dje/		 incendias
/ɛ̃.sɑ̃.dja/		 incendia
/ɛ̃.sɑ̃.dja/		 incendiâmes
/ɛ̃.sɑ̃.djam/		 incendiâtes
/ɛ̃.sɑ̃.djat/		 incendièrent
/ɛ̃.sɑ̃.djɛʁ/
future incendierai
/ɛ̃.sɑ̃.di.ʁe/		 incendieras
/ɛ̃.sɑ̃.di.ʁa/		 incendiera
/ɛ̃.sɑ̃.di.ʁa/		 incendierons
/ɛ̃.sɑ̃.di.ʁɔ̃/		 incendierez
/ɛ̃.sɑ̃.di.ʁe/		 incendieront
/ɛ̃.sɑ̃.di.ʁɔ̃/
conditional incendierais
/ɛ̃.sɑ̃.di.ʁɛ/		 incendierais
/ɛ̃.sɑ̃.di.ʁɛ/		 incendierait
/ɛ̃.sɑ̃.di.ʁɛ/		 incendierions
/ɛ̃.sɑ̃.di.ʁjɔ̃/		 incendieriez
/ɛ̃.sɑ̃.di.ʁje/		 incendieraient
/ɛ̃.sɑ̃.di.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 incendie
/ɛ̃.sɑ̃.di/		 incendies
/ɛ̃.sɑ̃.di/		 incendie
/ɛ̃.sɑ̃.di/		 incendiions
/ɛ̃.sɑ̃.di.jɔ̃/		 incendiiez
/ɛ̃.sɑ̃.di.je/		 incendient
/ɛ̃.sɑ̃.di/
imperfect2 incendiasse
/ɛ̃.sɑ̃.djas/		 incendiasses
/ɛ̃.sɑ̃.djas/		 incendiât
/ɛ̃.sɑ̃.dja/		 incendiassions
/ɛ̃.sɑ̃.dja.sjɔ̃/		 incendiassiez
/ɛ̃.sɑ̃.dja.sje/		 incendiassent
/ɛ̃.sɑ̃.djas/
(compound
tenses)		 past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — incendie
/ɛ̃.sɑ̃.di/		 — incendions
/ɛ̃.sɑ̃.djɔ̃/		 incendiez
/ɛ̃.sɑ̃.dje/		 —
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).

Descendants
  • → Romanian: incendia

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