atrophier

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.tʁɔ.fje/

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• Homophones: atrophiai, atrophiée, atrophiées, atrophier, atrophiés, atrophiez

Verb

atrophier

1. (transitive or reflexive) atrophy (wither)

Conjugation

Conjugation of atrophier (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	atrophier
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	atrophiant /a.tʁɔ.fjɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		atrophié /a.tʁɔ.fje/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	atrophie /a.tʁɔ.fi/	atrophies /a.tʁɔ.fi/	atrophie /a.tʁɔ.fi/	atrophions /a.tʁɔ.fjɔ̃/	atrophiez /a.tʁɔ.fje/	atrophient /a.tʁɔ.fi/
	imperfect	atrophiais /a.tʁɔ.fjɛ/	atrophiais /a.tʁɔ.fjɛ/	atrophiait /a.tʁɔ.fjɛ/	atrophiions /a.tʁɔ.fi.jɔ̃/	atrophiiez /a.tʁɔ.fi.je/	atrophiaient /a.tʁɔ.fjɛ/
	past historic2	atrophiai /a.tʁɔ.fje/	atrophias /a.tʁɔ.fja/	atrophia /a.tʁɔ.fja/	atrophiâmes /a.tʁɔ.fjam/	atrophiâtes /a.tʁɔ.fjat/	atrophièrent /a.tʁɔ.fjɛʁ/
	future	atrophierai /a.tʁɔ.fi.ʁe/	atrophieras /a.tʁɔ.fi.ʁa/	atrophiera /a.tʁɔ.fi.ʁa/	atrophierons /a.tʁɔ.fi.ʁɔ̃/	atrophierez /a.tʁɔ.fi.ʁe/	atrophieront /a.tʁɔ.fi.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	atrophierais /a.tʁɔ.fi.ʁɛ/	atrophierais /a.tʁɔ.fi.ʁɛ/	atrophierait /a.tʁɔ.fi.ʁɛ/	atrophierions /a.tʁɔ.fi.ʁjɔ̃/	atrophieriez /a.tʁɔ.fi.ʁje/	atrophieraient /a.tʁɔ.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	atrophie /a.tʁɔ.fi/	atrophies /a.tʁɔ.fi/	atrophie /a.tʁɔ.fi/	atrophiions /a.tʁɔ.fi.jɔ̃/	atrophiiez /a.tʁɔ.fi.je/	atrophient /a.tʁɔ.fi/
	imperfect2	atrophiasse /a.tʁɔ.fjas/	atrophiasses /a.tʁɔ.fjas/	atrophiât /a.tʁɔ.fja/	atrophiassions /a.tʁɔ.fja.sjɔ̃/	atrophiassiez /a.tʁɔ.fja.sje/	atrophiassent /a.tʁɔ.fjas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	atrophie /a.tʁɔ.fi/	—	atrophions /a.tʁɔ.fjɔ̃/	atrophiez /a.tʁɔ.fje/	—
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).

Further reading

• “atrophier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.