vitrifier
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /vi.tʁi.fje/
Verb
vitrifier
- to vitrify
- Vitrifier le sable.
- To convert sand to glass.
- to make solid as glass
- Je n'en ai gardé souvenir de rien de précis [de ces quelques jours passés avec Pierre Louis], mais bien seulement d'une extraordinaire ferveur, d'une joie, d'une frénésie qui m'éveillait dès l'aube, éternisait chaque instant de chaque heure, vitrifiait ou volatilisait tout ce qui s'approchait de mon cœur.(André Gide, Si le grain ne meurt, 1924)
- I wouldn't dare depict any specific memory [of these few past days with Pierre Louis], but only a special fervor, a joy, a frenzy that awoke me at dawn, that dragged every moment of every hour, that vitrified, volatilized anything approaching my heart.
- to lacquer, give something a smooth, glassy finish
- Vitrifier un plancher.
- To lacquer the floor.
Conjugation
Conjugation of vitrifier (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | vitrifier | avoir vitrifié | |||||
| gerund | en vitrifiant | en ayant vitrifié | |||||
| present participle | vitrifiant /vi.tʁi.fjɑ̃/ | ||||||
| past participle | vitrifié /vi.tʁi.fje/ | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | vitrifie /vi.tʁi.fi/ |
vitrifies /vi.tʁi.fi/ |
vitrifie /vi.tʁi.fi/ |
vitrifions /vi.tʁi.fjɔ̃/ |
vitrifiez /vi.tʁi.fje/ |
vitrifient /vi.tʁi.fi/ |
| imperfect | vitrifiais /vi.tʁi.fjɛ/ |
vitrifiais /vi.tʁi.fjɛ/ |
vitrifiait /vi.tʁi.fjɛ/ |
vitrifiions /vi.tʁi.fi.jɔ̃/ |
vitrifiiez /vi.tʁi.fi.je/ |
vitrifiaient /vi.tʁi.fjɛ/ | |
| past historic1 | vitrifiai /vi.tʁi.fje/ |
vitrifias /vi.tʁi.fja/ |
vitrifia /vi.tʁi.fja/ |
vitrifiâmes /vi.tʁi.fjam/ |
vitrifiâtes /vi.tʁi.fjat/ |
vitrifièrent /vi.tʁi.fjɛʁ/ | |
| future | vitrifierai /vi.tʁi.fi.ʁe/ |
vitrifieras /vi.tʁi.fi.ʁa/ |
vitrifiera /vi.tʁi.fi.ʁa/ |
vitrifierons /vi.tʁi.fi.ʁɔ̃/ |
vitrifierez /vi.tʁi.fi.ʁe/ |
vitrifieront /vi.tʁi.fi.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | vitrifierais /vi.tʁi.fi.ʁɛ/ |
vitrifierais /vi.tʁi.fi.ʁɛ/ |
vitrifierait /vi.tʁi.fi.ʁɛ/ |
vitrifierions /vi.tʁi.fi.ʁjɔ̃/ |
vitrifieriez /vi.tʁi.fi.ʁje/ |
vitrifieraient /vi.tʁi.fi.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 | vitrifie /vi.tʁi.fi/ |
vitrifies /vi.tʁi.fi/ |
vitrifie /vi.tʁi.fi/ |
vitrifiions /vi.tʁi.fi.jɔ̃/ |
vitrifiiez /vi.tʁi.fi.je/ |
vitrifient /vi.tʁi.fi/ |
| imperfect1 | vitrifiasse /vi.tʁi.fjas/ |
vitrifiasses /vi.tʁi.fjas/ |
vitrifiât /vi.tʁi.fja/ |
vitrifiassions /vi.tʁi.fja.sjɔ̃/ |
vitrifiassiez /vi.tʁi.fja.sje/ |
vitrifiassent /vi.tʁi.fjas/ | |
| 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 | – | |
| — | vitrifie /vi.tʁi.fi/ |
— | vitrifions /vi.tʁi.fjɔ̃/ |
vitrifiez /vi.tʁi.fje/ |
— | ||
| 1literary tenses | |||||||
Derived terms
Further reading
- “vitrifier” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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