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nuire
nuire
French
Verb
nuire
- (intransitive) to harm, to spoil
- Fumer nuit à la santé. — Smoking is harmful to your health.
- La cigarette nuit au bébé. — Cigarettes are harmful to a baby.
Conjugation
Conjugation of nuire (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | nuire | avoir nui | |||||
| gerund | en nuisant | en ayant nui | |||||
| present participle | nuisant /nɥi.zɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | nui /nɥi/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | nuis /nɥi/ |
nuis /nɥi/ |
nuit /nɥi/ |
nuisons /nɥi.zɔ̃/ |
nuisez /nɥi.ze/ |
nuisent /nɥiz/ |
| imperfect | nuisais /nɥi.zɛ/ |
nuisais /nɥi.zɛ/ |
nuisait /nɥi.zɛ/ |
nuisions /nɥi.zjɔ̃/ |
nuisiez /nɥi.zje/ |
nuisaient /nɥi.zɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | nuisis /nɥi.zi/ |
nuisis /nɥi.zi/ |
nuisit /nɥi.zi/ |
nuisîmes /nɥi.zim/ |
nuisîtes /nɥi.zit/ |
nuisirent /nɥi.ziʁ/ |
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| future | nuirai /nɥi.ʁe/ |
nuiras /nɥi.ʁa/ |
nuira /nɥi.ʁa/ |
nuirons /nɥi.ʁɔ̃/ |
nuirez /nɥi.ʁe/ |
nuiront /nɥi.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | nuirais /nɥi.ʁɛ/ |
nuirais /nɥi.ʁɛ/ |
nuirait /nɥi.ʁɛ/ |
nuirions /nɥi.ʁjɔ̃/ |
nuiriez /nɥi.ʁje/ |
nuiraient /nɥi.ʁɛ/ |
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| 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 /nɥiz/ |
nuises /nɥiz/ |
nuise /nɥiz/ |
nuisions /nɥi.zjɔ̃/ |
nuisiez /nɥi.zje/ |
nuisent /nɥiz/ |
| imperfect1 |
nuisisse /nɥi.zis/ |
nuisisses /nɥi.zis/ |
nuisît /nɥi.zi/ |
nuisissions /nɥi.zi.sjɔ̃/ |
nuisissiez /nɥi.zi.sje/ |
nuisissent /nɥi.zis/ |
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| 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 | – | |
| — | nuis /nɥi/ |
— | nuisons /nɥi.zɔ̃/ |
nuisez /nɥi.ze/ |
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| 1literary tenses | |||||||
Usage notes
- nuire is followed by à to become transitive