Nuire Definition
Contents
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
Verb
nuire
- To harm, to spoil
- Fumer nuit à la santé.
- La cigarette nuit au bébé.
- Cigarettes are harmful to a baby.
Conjugation
Conjugation of nuire (see also Appendix:French verbs)| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | nuire | avoir nuit | |||||
| gerund | en nuisant | Use the gerund of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| present participle | nuisant | ||||||
| past participle | nuit | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses | present | nuis | nuis | nuit | nuisons | nuisez | nuisent |
| imperfect | nuisais | nuisais | nuisait | nuisions | nuisiez | nuisaient | |
| past historic1 | nuisis | nuisis | nuisit | nuisîmes | nuisîtes | nuisirent | |
| future | nuirai | nuiras | nuira | nuirons | nuirez | nuiront | |
| conditional | nuirais | nuirais | nuirait | nuirions | nuiriez | nuiraient | |
| 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 | nuise | nuises | nuise | nuisions | nuisiez | nuisent |
| imperfect1 | nuisisse | nuisisses | nuisît | nuisissions | nuisissiez | nuisissent | |
| compound tenses | past | Use the present subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | nuis | — | nuisons | nuisez | — | ||
| 1literary tenses | |||||||
Usage notes
nuire is followed by à to become transitive
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