aiser
French
Etymology
Verb
aiser
- (obsolete) to get comfortable
- Antonym: malaiser
- 1870, Arthur Rimbaud, “La Maline”, in Cahiers de Douai:
- Elle arrangeait les plats, près de moi pour m’aiser ;
– Puis, comme ça, – bien sûr pour avoir un baiser, –
Tout bas : « Sens donc, j’ai pris une froid sur la joue... »- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Conjugation
Conjugation of aiser (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | aiser | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | aisant /ɛ.zɑ̃/ or /e.zɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | aisé /ɛ.ze/ or /e.ze/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | aise /ɛz/ |
aises /ɛz/ |
aise /ɛz/ |
aisons /ɛ.zɔ̃/ or /e.zɔ̃/ |
aisez /ɛ.ze/ or /e.ze/ |
aisent /ɛz/ |
| imperfect | aisais /ɛ.zɛ/ or /e.zɛ/ |
aisais /ɛ.zɛ/ or /e.zɛ/ |
aisait /ɛ.zɛ/ or /e.zɛ/ |
aisions /ɛ.zjɔ̃/ or /e.zjɔ̃/ |
aisiez /ɛ.zje/ or /e.zje/ |
aisaient /ɛ.zɛ/ or /e.zɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | aisai /ɛ.ze/ or /e.ze/ |
aisas /ɛ.za/ or /e.za/ |
aisa /ɛ.za/ or /e.za/ |
aisâmes /ɛ.zam/ or /e.zam/ |
aisâtes /ɛ.zat/ or /e.zat/ |
aisèrent /ɛ.zɛʁ/ or /e.zɛʁ/ | |
| future | aiserai /ɛz.ʁe/ |
aiseras /ɛz.ʁa/ |
aisera /ɛz.ʁa/ |
aiserons /ɛz.ʁɔ̃/ |
aiserez /ɛz.ʁe/ |
aiseront /ɛz.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | aiserais /ɛz.ʁɛ/ |
aiserais /ɛz.ʁɛ/ |
aiserait /ɛz.ʁɛ/ |
aiserions /ɛ.zə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /e.zə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
aiseriez /ɛ.zə.ʁje/ or /e.zə.ʁje/ |
aiseraient /ɛz.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 | aise /ɛz/ |
aises /ɛz/ |
aise /ɛz/ |
aisions /ɛ.zjɔ̃/ or /e.zjɔ̃/ |
aisiez /ɛ.zje/ or /e.zje/ |
aisent /ɛz/ |
| imperfect2 | aisasse /ɛ.zas/ or /e.zas/ |
aisasses /ɛ.zas/ or /e.zas/ |
aisât /ɛ.za/ or /e.za/ |
aisassions /ɛ.za.sjɔ̃/ or /e.za.sjɔ̃/ |
aisassiez /ɛ.za.sje/ or /e.za.sje/ |
aisassent /ɛ.zas/ or /e.zas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | aise /ɛz/ |
— | aisons /ɛ.zɔ̃/ or /e.zɔ̃/ |
aisez /ɛ.ze/ or /e.ze/ |
— | |
| 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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Old French
Verb
aiser
- (Anglo-Norman) alternative form of eiser
References
“eiser”, in Anglo-Norman Dictionary, Aberystwyth University, 2022–2026