avorter
French
Etymology
Inherited from Latin abortāre (“to bring forth prematurely”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.vɔʁ.te/
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Verb
avorter
- (intransitive, of a mission and etc) to fail, to come to an end
- (intransitive, of a female) to have an abortion
- (causative) to abort, to terminate
- (causative) to cause an abortion
- Elle a fait avorter le bébé. ― She aborted the baby.
- (law) (of a procedure) To end in a mistrial.
Conjugation
Conjugation of avorter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | avorter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | avortant /a.vɔʁ.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | avorté /a.vɔʁ.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | avorte /a.vɔʁt/ |
avortes /a.vɔʁt/ |
avorte /a.vɔʁt/ |
avortons /a.vɔʁ.tɔ̃/ |
avortez /a.vɔʁ.te/ |
avortent /a.vɔʁt/ |
| imperfect | avortais /a.vɔʁ.tɛ/ |
avortais /a.vɔʁ.tɛ/ |
avortait /a.vɔʁ.tɛ/ |
avortions /a.vɔʁ.tjɔ̃/ |
avortiez /a.vɔʁ.tje/ |
avortaient /a.vɔʁ.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | avortai /a.vɔʁ.te/ |
avortas /a.vɔʁ.ta/ |
avorta /a.vɔʁ.ta/ |
avortâmes /a.vɔʁ.tam/ |
avortâtes /a.vɔʁ.tat/ |
avortèrent /a.vɔʁ.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | avorterai /a.vɔʁ.tə.ʁe/ |
avorteras /a.vɔʁ.tə.ʁa/ |
avortera /a.vɔʁ.tə.ʁa/ |
avorterons /a.vɔʁ.tə.ʁɔ̃/ |
avorterez /a.vɔʁ.tə.ʁe/ |
avorteront /a.vɔʁ.tə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | avorterais /a.vɔʁ.tə.ʁɛ/ |
avorterais /a.vɔʁ.tə.ʁɛ/ |
avorterait /a.vɔʁ.tə.ʁɛ/ |
avorterions /a.vɔʁ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
avorteriez /a.vɔʁ.tə.ʁje/ |
avorteraient /a.vɔʁ.tə.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 | avorte /a.vɔʁt/ |
avortes /a.vɔʁt/ |
avorte /a.vɔʁt/ |
avortions /a.vɔʁ.tjɔ̃/ |
avortiez /a.vɔʁ.tje/ |
avortent /a.vɔʁt/ |
| imperfect2 | avortasse /a.vɔʁ.tas/ |
avortasses /a.vɔʁ.tas/ |
avortât /a.vɔʁ.ta/ |
avortassions /a.vɔʁ.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
avortassiez /a.vɔʁ.ta.sje/ |
avortassent /a.vɔʁ.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | avorte /a.vɔʁt/ |
— | avortons /a.vɔʁ.tɔ̃/ |
avortez /a.vɔʁ.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). | |||||||
Derived terms
Related terms
Further reading
- “avorter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012