avorter

French

Etymology

Inherited from Latin abortāre (“to bring forth prematurely”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /a.vɔʁ.te/
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Verb

avorter

  1. (intransitive, of a mission and etc) to fail, to come to an end
  2. (intransitive, of a female) to have an abortion
  3. (causative) to abort, to terminate
  4. (causative) to cause an abortion
    Elle a fait avorter le bébé. ― She aborted the baby.

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 – tu – nous vous –
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:
  • 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).

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