incendier

French

Etymology

From incendie +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.sɑ̃.dje/

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• Homophones: incendiai, incendié, incendiée, incendiées, incendiés, incendiez

Verb

incendier

1. (transitive) to burn down

   Des pyromanes ont incendié le bâtiment la nuit dernière. ― Pyromaniacs burned down the building last night.

2. to roast (criticize severely)

Conjugation

Conjugation of incendier (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	incendier
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	incendiant /ɛ̃.sɑ̃.djɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		incendié /ɛ̃.sɑ̃.dje/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	incendie /ɛ̃.sɑ̃.di/	incendies /ɛ̃.sɑ̃.di/	incendie /ɛ̃.sɑ̃.di/	incendions /ɛ̃.sɑ̃.djɔ̃/	incendiez /ɛ̃.sɑ̃.dje/	incendient /ɛ̃.sɑ̃.di/
	imperfect	incendiais /ɛ̃.sɑ̃.djɛ/	incendiais /ɛ̃.sɑ̃.djɛ/	incendiait /ɛ̃.sɑ̃.djɛ/	incendiions /ɛ̃.sɑ̃.di.jɔ̃/	incendiiez /ɛ̃.sɑ̃.di.je/	incendiaient /ɛ̃.sɑ̃.djɛ/
	past historic2	incendiai /ɛ̃.sɑ̃.dje/	incendias /ɛ̃.sɑ̃.dja/	incendia /ɛ̃.sɑ̃.dja/	incendiâmes /ɛ̃.sɑ̃.djam/	incendiâtes /ɛ̃.sɑ̃.djat/	incendièrent /ɛ̃.sɑ̃.djɛʁ/
	future	incendierai /ɛ̃.sɑ̃.di.ʁe/	incendieras /ɛ̃.sɑ̃.di.ʁa/	incendiera /ɛ̃.sɑ̃.di.ʁa/	incendierons /ɛ̃.sɑ̃.di.ʁɔ̃/	incendierez /ɛ̃.sɑ̃.di.ʁe/	incendieront /ɛ̃.sɑ̃.di.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	incendierais /ɛ̃.sɑ̃.di.ʁɛ/	incendierais /ɛ̃.sɑ̃.di.ʁɛ/	incendierait /ɛ̃.sɑ̃.di.ʁɛ/	incendierions /ɛ̃.sɑ̃.di.ʁjɔ̃/	incendieriez /ɛ̃.sɑ̃.di.ʁje/	incendieraient /ɛ̃.sɑ̃.di.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	incendie /ɛ̃.sɑ̃.di/	incendies /ɛ̃.sɑ̃.di/	incendie /ɛ̃.sɑ̃.di/	incendiions /ɛ̃.sɑ̃.di.jɔ̃/	incendiiez /ɛ̃.sɑ̃.di.je/	incendient /ɛ̃.sɑ̃.di/
	imperfect2	incendiasse /ɛ̃.sɑ̃.djas/	incendiasses /ɛ̃.sɑ̃.djas/	incendiât /ɛ̃.sɑ̃.dja/	incendiassions /ɛ̃.sɑ̃.dja.sjɔ̃/	incendiassiez /ɛ̃.sɑ̃.dja.sje/	incendiassent /ɛ̃.sɑ̃.djas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	incendie /ɛ̃.sɑ̃.di/	—	incendions /ɛ̃.sɑ̃.djɔ̃/	incendiez /ɛ̃.sɑ̃.dje/	—
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).

Descendants

• → Romanian: incendia

Further reading

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