mourir
French
Etymology
From Middle French mourir, from Old French morir, from Vulgar Latin *morīre, from Latin morī, present active infinitive of morior, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mer-.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mu.ʁiʁ/
audio (file) - Rhymes: -iʁ
Verb
mourir
- (intransitive) to die; to be dying
- (figuratively, with "de") to be dying (of)
- Je meurs de faim ― I'm dying of hunger
Conjugation
Conjugation of mourir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| present participle | mourant /mu.ʁɑ̃/ | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| past participle | mort /mɔʁ/ | ||||||
| infinitive | |||||||
| simple | mourir | ||||||
| compound | être + past participle | ||||||
| gerund1 | |||||||
| simple | mourant /mu.ʁɑ̃/ | ||||||
| compound | étant + past participle | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | meurs /mœʁ/ |
meurs /mœʁ/ |
meurt /mœʁ/ |
mourons /mu.ʁɔ̃/ |
mourez /mu.ʁe/ |
meurent /mœʁ/ |
| imperfect | mourais /mu.ʁɛ/ |
mourais /mu.ʁɛ/ |
mourait /mu.ʁɛ/ |
mourions /mu.ʁjɔ̃/ |
mouriez /mu.ʁje/ |
mouraient /mu.ʁɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | mourus /mu.ʁy/ |
mourus /mu.ʁy/ |
mourut /mu.ʁy/ |
mourûmes /mu.ʁym/ |
mourûtes /mu.ʁyt/ |
moururent /mu.ʁyʁ/ | |
| future | mourrai /muʁ.ʁe/ |
mourras /muʁ.ʁa/ |
mourra /muʁ.ʁa/ |
mourrons /muʁ.ʁɔ̃/ |
mourrez /muʁ.ʁe/ |
mourront /muʁ.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | mourrais /muʁ.ʁɛ/ |
mourrais /muʁ.ʁɛ/ |
mourrait /muʁ.ʁɛ/ |
mourrions /muʁ.ʁjɔ̃/ |
mourriez /muʁ.ʁje/ |
mourraient /muʁ.ʁɛ/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of être + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative of être + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior2 | past historic of être + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future of être + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional of être + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | meure /mœʁ/ |
meures /mœʁ/ |
meure /mœʁ/ |
mourions /mu.ʁjɔ̃/ |
mouriez /mu.ʁje/ |
meurent /mœʁ/ |
| imperfect2 | mourusse /mu.ʁys/ |
mourusses /mu.ʁys/ |
mourût /mu.ʁy/ |
mourussions /mu.ʁy.sjɔ̃/ |
mourussiez /mu.ʁy.sje/ |
mourussent /mu.ʁys/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of être + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of être + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | meurs /mœʁ/ |
— | mourons /mu.ʁɔ̃/ |
mourez /mu.ʁe/ |
— | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of être + past participle | — | simple imperative of être + past participle | simple imperative of être + 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). | |||||||
Synonyms
Further reading
- “mourir” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Middle French
Etymology
From Old French morir, from Vulgar Latin *morīre, from Latin morī, present active infinitive of morior.
Descendants
- French: mourir
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