personnifier

French

Etymology

From personne +‎ -ifier.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɛʁ.sɔ.ni.fje/

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Verb

personnifier

1. (transitive) to personify

Usage notes

Not to be confused with personnaliser.

Conjugation

Conjugation of personnifier (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	personnifier
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	personnifiant /pɛʁ.sɔ.ni.fjɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		personnifié /pɛʁ.sɔ.ni.fje/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	personnifie /pɛʁ.sɔ.ni.fi/	personnifies /pɛʁ.sɔ.ni.fi/	personnifie /pɛʁ.sɔ.ni.fi/	personnifions /pɛʁ.sɔ.ni.fjɔ̃/	personnifiez /pɛʁ.sɔ.ni.fje/	personnifient /pɛʁ.sɔ.ni.fi/
	imperfect	personnifiais /pɛʁ.sɔ.ni.fjɛ/	personnifiais /pɛʁ.sɔ.ni.fjɛ/	personnifiait /pɛʁ.sɔ.ni.fjɛ/	personnifiions /pɛʁ.sɔ.ni.fi.jɔ̃/	personnifiiez /pɛʁ.sɔ.ni.fi.je/	personnifiaient /pɛʁ.sɔ.ni.fjɛ/
	past historic2	personnifiai /pɛʁ.sɔ.ni.fje/	personnifias /pɛʁ.sɔ.ni.fja/	personnifia /pɛʁ.sɔ.ni.fja/	personnifiâmes /pɛʁ.sɔ.ni.fjam/	personnifiâtes /pɛʁ.sɔ.ni.fjat/	personnifièrent /pɛʁ.sɔ.ni.fjɛʁ/
	future	personnifierai /pɛʁ.sɔ.ni.fi.ʁe/	personnifieras /pɛʁ.sɔ.ni.fi.ʁa/	personnifiera /pɛʁ.sɔ.ni.fi.ʁa/	personnifierons /pɛʁ.sɔ.ni.fi.ʁɔ̃/	personnifierez /pɛʁ.sɔ.ni.fi.ʁe/	personnifieront /pɛʁ.sɔ.ni.fi.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	personnifierais /pɛʁ.sɔ.ni.fi.ʁɛ/	personnifierais /pɛʁ.sɔ.ni.fi.ʁɛ/	personnifierait /pɛʁ.sɔ.ni.fi.ʁɛ/	personnifierions /pɛʁ.sɔ.ni.fi.ʁjɔ̃/	personnifieriez /pɛʁ.sɔ.ni.fi.ʁje/	personnifieraient /pɛʁ.sɔ.ni.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	personnifie /pɛʁ.sɔ.ni.fi/	personnifies /pɛʁ.sɔ.ni.fi/	personnifie /pɛʁ.sɔ.ni.fi/	personnifiions /pɛʁ.sɔ.ni.fi.jɔ̃/	personnifiiez /pɛʁ.sɔ.ni.fi.je/	personnifient /pɛʁ.sɔ.ni.fi/
	imperfect2	personnifiasse /pɛʁ.sɔ.ni.fjas/	personnifiasses /pɛʁ.sɔ.ni.fjas/	personnifiât /pɛʁ.sɔ.ni.fja/	personnifiassions /pɛʁ.sɔ.ni.fja.sjɔ̃/	personnifiassiez /pɛʁ.sɔ.ni.fja.sje/	personnifiassent /pɛʁ.sɔ.ni.fjas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	personnifie /pɛʁ.sɔ.ni.fi/	—	personnifions /pɛʁ.sɔ.ni.fjɔ̃/	personnifiez /pɛʁ.sɔ.ni.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).

Derived terms

• personnification

Further reading

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