amarsir
French
editEtymology
editFrom a- + Mars + -ir, on the analogy of atterrir (“to land (on Earth)”) from Terre (“Earth”).
Pronunciation
editVerb
editamarsir
- (intransitive, of a spacecraft) to land on the surface of the planet Mars
- 1996, Fernando Arrabal, Le fou rire des lilliputiens, page 90:
- Les plus anciens de la localité estiment qu’elle amarsira sur une aussi plantureuse planète au mois de février 1897, année bissextile par voie orale.
- The oldest residents thought that she'd made a Mars landing on another fertile planet in the month of February, 1897, a leap year in their way of speaking.
Conjugation
editThis 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 amarsir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | amarsir | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | amarsissant /a.maʁ.si.sɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | amarsi /a.maʁ.si/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | amarsis /a.maʁ.si/ |
amarsis /a.maʁ.si/ |
amarsit /a.maʁ.si/ |
amarsissons /a.maʁ.si.sɔ̃/ |
amarsissez /a.maʁ.si.se/ |
amarsissent /a.maʁ.sis/ |
| imperfect | amarsissais /a.maʁ.si.sɛ/ |
amarsissais /a.maʁ.si.sɛ/ |
amarsissait /a.maʁ.si.sɛ/ |
amarsissions /a.maʁ.si.sjɔ̃/ |
amarsissiez /a.maʁ.si.sje/ |
amarsissaient /a.maʁ.si.sɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | amarsis /a.maʁ.si/ |
amarsis /a.maʁ.si/ |
amarsit /a.maʁ.si/ |
amarsîmes /a.maʁ.sim/ |
amarsîtes /a.maʁ.sit/ |
amarsirent /a.maʁ.siʁ/ | |
| future | amarsirai /a.maʁ.si.ʁe/ |
amarsiras /a.maʁ.si.ʁa/ |
amarsira /a.maʁ.si.ʁa/ |
amarsirons /a.maʁ.si.ʁɔ̃/ |
amarsirez /a.maʁ.si.ʁe/ |
amarsiront /a.maʁ.si.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | amarsirais /a.maʁ.si.ʁɛ/ |
amarsirais /a.maʁ.si.ʁɛ/ |
amarsirait /a.maʁ.si.ʁɛ/ |
amarsirions /a.maʁ.si.ʁjɔ̃/ |
amarsiriez /a.maʁ.si.ʁje/ |
amarsiraient /a.maʁ.si.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 | amarsisse /a.maʁ.sis/ |
amarsisses /a.maʁ.sis/ |
amarsisse /a.maʁ.sis/ |
amarsissions /a.maʁ.si.sjɔ̃/ |
amarsissiez /a.maʁ.si.sje/ |
amarsissent /a.maʁ.sis/ |
| imperfect2 | amarsisse /a.maʁ.sis/ |
amarsisses /a.maʁ.sis/ |
amarsît /a.maʁ.si/ |
amarsissions /a.maʁ.si.sjɔ̃/ |
amarsissiez /a.maʁ.si.sje/ |
amarsissent /a.maʁ.sis/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | amarsis /a.maʁ.si/ |
— | amarsissons /a.maʁ.si.sɔ̃/ |
amarsissez /a.maʁ.si.se/ |
— | |
| 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). | |||||||