disparaître

See also: disparaitre

French

Alternative forms

Etymology

Formed from dis- + paraître, based on Late Latin dispareo, disparere.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dis.pa.ʁɛtʁ/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛtʁ

Verb

disparaître

  1. to disappear
  2. (video games) to despawn

Conjugation

  • While the verb usually takes avoir as an auxiliary verb, in a literary context it can take être.

This verb is one of a fairly small group of -re verbs, that are all conjugated the same way. They are unlike other verb groups in that the ‘i’ is given a circumflex before a ‘t’.

Further reading

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