anéantir

French

Etymology

From a- +‎ néant +‎ -ir. Compare annihiler, a parallel formation.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.ne.ɑ̃.tiʁ/

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Verb

anéantir

1. (transitive) to wipe out, to destroy, to shatter

   Synonyms: réduire à néant, annihiler

2. (transitive, figuratively) to hit someone for six

Conjugation

This 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 anéantir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	anéantir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	anéantissant /a.ne.ɑ̃.ti.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		anéanti /a.ne.ɑ̃.ti/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	anéantis /a.ne.ɑ̃.ti/	anéantis /a.ne.ɑ̃.ti/	anéantit /a.ne.ɑ̃.ti/	anéantissons /a.ne.ɑ̃.ti.sɔ̃/	anéantissez /a.ne.ɑ̃.ti.se/	anéantissent /a.ne.ɑ̃.tis/
	imperfect	anéantissais /a.ne.ɑ̃.ti.sɛ/	anéantissais /a.ne.ɑ̃.ti.sɛ/	anéantissait /a.ne.ɑ̃.ti.sɛ/	anéantissions /a.ne.ɑ̃.ti.sjɔ̃/	anéantissiez /a.ne.ɑ̃.ti.sje/	anéantissaient /a.ne.ɑ̃.ti.sɛ/
	past historic2	anéantis /a.ne.ɑ̃.ti/	anéantis /a.ne.ɑ̃.ti/	anéantit /a.ne.ɑ̃.ti/	anéantîmes /a.ne.ɑ̃.tim/	anéantîtes /a.ne.ɑ̃.tit/	anéantirent /a.ne.ɑ̃.tiʁ/
	future	anéantirai /a.ne.ɑ̃.ti.ʁe/	anéantiras /a.ne.ɑ̃.ti.ʁa/	anéantira /a.ne.ɑ̃.ti.ʁa/	anéantirons /a.ne.ɑ̃.ti.ʁɔ̃/	anéantirez /a.ne.ɑ̃.ti.ʁe/	anéantiront /a.ne.ɑ̃.ti.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	anéantirais /a.ne.ɑ̃.ti.ʁɛ/	anéantirais /a.ne.ɑ̃.ti.ʁɛ/	anéantirait /a.ne.ɑ̃.ti.ʁɛ/	anéantirions /a.ne.ɑ̃.ti.ʁjɔ̃/	anéantiriez /a.ne.ɑ̃.ti.ʁje/	anéantiraient /a.ne.ɑ̃.ti.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	anéantisse /a.ne.ɑ̃.tis/	anéantisses /a.ne.ɑ̃.tis/	anéantisse /a.ne.ɑ̃.tis/	anéantissions /a.ne.ɑ̃.ti.sjɔ̃/	anéantissiez /a.ne.ɑ̃.ti.sje/	anéantissent /a.ne.ɑ̃.tis/
	imperfect2	anéantisse /a.ne.ɑ̃.tis/	anéantisses /a.ne.ɑ̃.tis/	anéantît /a.ne.ɑ̃.ti/	anéantissions /a.ne.ɑ̃.ti.sjɔ̃/	anéantissiez /a.ne.ɑ̃.ti.sje/	anéantissent /a.ne.ɑ̃.tis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	anéantis /a.ne.ɑ̃.ti/	—	anéantissons /a.ne.ɑ̃.ti.sɔ̃/	anéantissez /a.ne.ɑ̃.ti.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: 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).

Derived terms

• anéantissement

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• entraina, entraîna, tannerai