agenouiller
French
Etymology
a- + genou + -er, via its Old French root genoil (“knee”). Compare Catalan agenollar, Portuguese ajoelhar, Italian inginocchiare, Romanian îngenunchea.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /aʒ.nu.je/
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Verb
agenouiller
- (reflexive, s'agenouiller) to kneel (down)
- En rentrant dans l'église, on me pria de m'agenouiller.
Conjugation
Conjugation of agenouiller (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | agenouiller | avoir agenouillé | |||||
| gerund | en agenouillant | en ayant agenouillé | |||||
| present participle | agenouillant /aʒ.nu.jɑ̃/ | ||||||
| past participle | agenouillé /aʒ.nu.je/ | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | agenouille /aʒ.nuj/ |
agenouilles /aʒ.nuj/ |
agenouille /aʒ.nuj/ |
agenouillons /aʒ.nu.jɔ̃/ |
agenouillez /aʒ.nu.je/ |
agenouillent /aʒ.nuj/ |
| imperfect | agenouillais /aʒ.nu.jɛ/ |
agenouillais /aʒ.nu.jɛ/ |
agenouillait /aʒ.nu.jɛ/ |
agenouillions /aʒ.nuj.jɔ̃/ |
agenouilliez /aʒ.nuj.je/ |
agenouillaient /aʒ.nu.jɛ/ | |
| past historic1 | agenouillai /aʒ.nu.je/ |
agenouillas /aʒ.nu.ja/ |
agenouilla /aʒ.nu.ja/ |
agenouillâmes /aʒ.nu.jam/ |
agenouillâtes /aʒ.nu.jat/ |
agenouillèrent /aʒ.nu.jɛʁ/ | |
| future | agenouillerai /aʒ.nuj.ʁe/ |
agenouilleras /aʒ.nuj.ʁa/ |
agenouillera /aʒ.nuj.ʁa/ |
agenouillerons /aʒ.nuj.ʁɔ̃/ |
agenouillerez /aʒ.nuj.ʁe/ |
agenouilleront /aʒ.nuj.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | agenouillerais /aʒ.nuj.ʁɛ/ |
agenouillerais /aʒ.nuj.ʁɛ/ |
agenouillerait /aʒ.nuj.ʁɛ/ |
agenouillerions /aʒ.nu.jə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
agenouilleriez /aʒ.nu.jə.ʁje/ |
agenouilleraient /aʒ.nuj.ʁɛ/ | |
| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior1 | Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | agenouille /aʒ.nuj/ |
agenouilles /aʒ.nuj/ |
agenouille /aʒ.nuj/ |
agenouillions /aʒ.nuj.jɔ̃/ |
agenouilliez /aʒ.nuj.je/ |
agenouillent /aʒ.nuj/ |
| imperfect1 | agenouillasse /aʒ.nu.jas/ |
agenouillasses /aʒ.nu.jas/ |
agenouillât /aʒ.nu.ja/ |
agenouillassions /aʒ.nu.ja.sjɔ̃/ |
agenouillassiez /aʒ.nu.ja.sje/ |
agenouillassent /aʒ.nu.jas/ | |
| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | agenouille /aʒ.nuj/ |
— | agenouillons /aʒ.nu.jɔ̃/ |
agenouillez /aʒ.nu.je/ |
— | ||
| 1literary tenses | |||||||
Derived terms
- agenouillable
- agenouilliste
Further reading
- “agenouiller” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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