néantir

== French == === Etymology === Coined by Jean-Paul Sartre. From néant +‎ -ir. Compare anéantir, its derivation. === Pronunciation === === Verb === néantir (transitive) to nihilate (transitive) to negate ==== Conjugation ==== This is a regular verb of the second conjugation, like finir, choisir, and most other verbs with infinitives ending in -ir. One salient feature of this conjugation is the repeated appearance of the infix -iss-. === References === “néantir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012