flairer
French
Etymology
From Old French flairier, from Vulgar Latin, Late Latin flāgrāre, present active infinitive of flāgrō, by dissimilation from Latin frāgrō, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreh₂gro-, from *bʰreh₂g- (“to smell”) + *-ro-.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /flɛ.ʁe/, /fle.ʁe/
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Conjugation
Conjugation of flairer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| present participle | flairant /flɛ.ʁɑ̃/ or /fle.ʁɑ̃/ | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| past participle | flairé /flɛ.ʁe/ or /fle.ʁe/ | ||||||
| infinitive | |||||||
| simple | flairer | ||||||
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| gerund1 | |||||||
| simple | flairant /flɛ.ʁɑ̃/ or /fle.ʁɑ̃/ | ||||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | flaire /flɛʁ/ |
flaires /flɛʁ/ |
flaire /flɛʁ/ |
flairons /flɛ.ʁɔ̃/ or /fle.ʁɔ̃/ |
flairez /flɛ.ʁe/ or /fle.ʁe/ |
flairent /flɛʁ/ |
| imperfect | flairais /flɛ.ʁɛ/ or /fle.ʁɛ/ |
flairais /flɛ.ʁɛ/ or /fle.ʁɛ/ |
flairait /flɛ.ʁɛ/ or /fle.ʁɛ/ |
flairions /flɛ.ʁjɔ̃/ or /fle.ʁjɔ̃/ |
flairiez /flɛ.ʁje/ or /fle.ʁje/ |
flairaient /flɛ.ʁɛ/ or /fle.ʁɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | flairai /flɛ.ʁe/ or /fle.ʁe/ |
flairas /flɛ.ʁa/ or /fle.ʁa/ |
flaira /flɛ.ʁa/ or /fle.ʁa/ |
flairâmes /flɛ.ʁam/ or /fle.ʁam/ |
flairâtes /flɛ.ʁat/ or /fle.ʁat/ |
flairèrent /flɛ.ʁɛʁ/ or /fle.ʁɛʁ/ | |
| future | flairerai /flɛ.ʁə.ʁe/ |
flaireras /flɛ.ʁə.ʁa/ |
flairera /flɛ.ʁə.ʁa/ |
flairerons /flɛ.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ |
flairerez /flɛ.ʁə.ʁe/ |
flaireront /flɛ.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | flairerais /flɛ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ |
flairerais /flɛ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ |
flairerait /flɛ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ |
flairerions /flɛ.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
flaireriez /flɛ.ʁə.ʁje/ |
flaireraient /flɛ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | flaire /flɛʁ/ |
flaires /flɛʁ/ |
flaire /flɛʁ/ |
flairions /flɛ.ʁjɔ̃/ or /fle.ʁjɔ̃/ |
flairiez /flɛ.ʁje/ or /fle.ʁje/ |
flairent /flɛʁ/ |
| imperfect2 | flairasse /flɛ.ʁas/ or /fle.ʁas/ |
flairasses /flɛ.ʁas/ or /fle.ʁas/ |
flairât /flɛ.ʁa/ or /fle.ʁa/ |
flairassions /flɛ.ʁa.sjɔ̃/ or /fle.ʁa.sjɔ̃/ |
flairassiez /flɛ.ʁa.sje/ or /fle.ʁa.sje/ |
flairassent /flɛ.ʁas/ or /fle.ʁas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | flaire /flɛʁ/ |
— | flairons /flɛ.ʁɔ̃/ or /fle.ʁɔ̃/ |
flairez /flɛ.ʁe/ or /fle.ʁe/ |
— | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 Only usable with preposition en. | |||||||
| 2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Derived terms
Further reading
- “flairer” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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