atteindre

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French ateindre, ataindre, from Vulgar Latin *attangere, alteration of Latin attingō, from tangō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.tɛ̃dʁ/

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• Rhymes: -ɛ̃dʁ

Verb

atteindre

1. to attain
2. to reach
3. to accomplish
4. to achieve
5. (disease, curse, pain) to affect

Conjugation

This verb is conjugated like peindre. It uses the same endings as rendre or vendre, but its -nd- becomes -gn- before a vowel, and its past participle ends in 't' instead of a vowel.

Conjugation of atteindre (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	atteindre
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	atteignant /a.tɛ.ɲɑ̃/ or /a.te.ɲɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		atteint /a.tɛ̃/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	atteins /a.tɛ̃/	atteins /a.tɛ̃/	atteint /a.tɛ̃/	atteignons /a.tɛ.ɲɔ̃/ or /a.te.ɲɔ̃/	atteignez /a.tɛ.ɲe/ or /a.te.ɲe/	atteignent /a.tɛɲ/
	imperfect	atteignais /a.tɛ.ɲɛ/ or /a.te.ɲɛ/	atteignais /a.tɛ.ɲɛ/ or /a.te.ɲɛ/	atteignait /a.tɛ.ɲɛ/ or /a.te.ɲɛ/	atteignions /a.tɛ.ɲjɔ̃/ or /a.te.ɲjɔ̃/	atteigniez /a.tɛ.ɲje/ or /a.te.ɲje/	atteignaient /a.tɛ.ɲɛ/ or /a.te.ɲɛ/
	past historic2	atteignis /a.tɛ.ɲi/ or /a.te.ɲi/	atteignis /a.tɛ.ɲi/ or /a.te.ɲi/	atteignit /a.tɛ.ɲi/ or /a.te.ɲi/	atteignîmes /a.tɛ.ɲim/ or /a.te.ɲim/	atteignîtes /a.tɛ.ɲit/ or /a.te.ɲit/	atteignirent /a.tɛ.ɲiʁ/ or /a.te.ɲiʁ/
	future	atteindrai /a.tɛ̃.dʁe/	atteindras /a.tɛ̃.dʁa/	atteindra /a.tɛ̃.dʁa/	atteindrons /a.tɛ̃.dʁɔ̃/	atteindrez /a.tɛ̃.dʁe/	atteindront /a.tɛ̃.dʁɔ̃/
	conditional	atteindrais /a.tɛ̃.dʁɛ/	atteindrais /a.tɛ̃.dʁɛ/	atteindrait /a.tɛ̃.dʁɛ/	atteindrions /a.tɛ̃.dʁi.jɔ̃/	atteindriez /a.tɛ̃.dʁi.je/	atteindraient /a.tɛ̃.dʁɛ/
(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	atteigne /a.tɛɲ/	atteignes /a.tɛɲ/	atteigne /a.tɛɲ/	atteignions /a.tɛ.ɲjɔ̃/ or /a.te.ɲjɔ̃/	atteigniez /a.tɛ.ɲje/ or /a.te.ɲje/	atteignent /a.tɛɲ/
	imperfect2	atteignisse /a.tɛ.ɲis/ or /a.te.ɲis/	atteignisses /a.tɛ.ɲis/ or /a.te.ɲis/	atteignît /a.tɛ.ɲi/ or /a.te.ɲi/	atteignissions /a.tɛ.ɲi.sjɔ̃/ or /a.te.ɲi.sjɔ̃/	atteignissiez /a.tɛ.ɲi.sje/ or /a.te.ɲi.sje/	atteignissent /a.tɛ.ɲis/ or /a.te.ɲis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	atteins /a.tɛ̃/	—	atteignons /a.tɛ.ɲɔ̃/ or /a.te.ɲɔ̃/	atteignez /a.tɛ.ɲe/ or /a.te.ɲe/	—
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

• atteindre des sommets

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• étendrait