auxiliaire

== French == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ok.si.ljɛʁ/, /oɡ.zi.ljɛʁ/ === Etymology 1 === Borrowed from Latin auxiliāris, from auxilium (“help”). ==== Adjective ==== auxiliaire (plural auxiliaires) (chiefly grammar) auxiliary ===== Derived terms ===== === Etymology 2 === Ellipsis of verbe auxiliaire. ==== Noun ==== auxiliaire m (plural auxiliaires) (grammar) a helping verb, an auxiliary verb (verb that, having lost its literal meaning, joins itself to a certain form of another verb, for example to a past participle, to show a grammatical feature such as tense, voice, aspect, etc. In French, avoir and être are tense auxiliaries) === Further reading === “auxiliaire”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012