noircir

French

Etymology

From Old French, from Vulgar Latin *nigricīre, from Latin nigrēscō, nigrēscere.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /nwaʁ.siʁ/
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Verb

noircir

  1. to blacken (make black)
  2. (reflexive) to get drunk
    • 1926, Marcel Aymé, Brûlebois, Éditions Gallimard, chap. III, 1975 ed., p. 33
      — Mais enfin, disait-il, pourquoi que tu te noircis comme ça? / — Sûrement que j'ai pas raison, répondait l'autre, quoique, dans un sens, ça soit pas mauvais de boire.

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-.

Conjugation of noircir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
present participle noircissant
/nwaʁ.si.sɑ̃/
past participle noirci
/nwaʁ.si/
infinitive
simple noircir
compound avoir + past participle
gerund1
simple noircissant
/nwaʁ.si.sɑ̃/
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 noircis
/nwaʁ.si/		 noircis
/nwaʁ.si/		 noircit
/nwaʁ.si/		 noircissons
/nwaʁ.si.sɔ̃/		 noircissez
/nwaʁ.si.se/		 noircissent
/nwaʁ.sis/
imperfect noircissais
/nwaʁ.si.sɛ/		 noircissais
/nwaʁ.si.sɛ/		 noircissait
/nwaʁ.si.sɛ/		 noircissions
/nwaʁ.si.sjɔ̃/		 noircissiez
/nwaʁ.si.sje/		 noircissaient
/nwaʁ.si.sɛ/
past historic2 noircis
/nwaʁ.si/		 noircis
/nwaʁ.si/		 noircit
/nwaʁ.si/		 noircîmes
/nwaʁ.sim/		 noircîtes
/nwaʁ.sit/		 noircirent
/nwaʁ.siʁ/
future noircirai
/nwaʁ.si.ʁe/		 noirciras
/nwaʁ.si.ʁa/		 noircira
/nwaʁ.si.ʁa/		 noircirons
/nwaʁ.si.ʁɔ̃/		 noircirez
/nwaʁ.si.ʁe/		 noirciront
/nwaʁ.si.ʁɔ̃/
conditional noircirais
/nwaʁ.si.ʁɛ/		 noircirais
/nwaʁ.si.ʁɛ/		 noircirait
/nwaʁ.si.ʁɛ/		 noircirions
/nwaʁ.si.ʁjɔ̃/		 noirciriez
/nwaʁ.si.ʁje/		 noirciraient
/nwaʁ.si.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 noircisse
/nwaʁ.sis/		 noircisses
/nwaʁ.sis/		 noircisse
/nwaʁ.sis/		 noircissions
/nwaʁ.si.sjɔ̃/		 noircissiez
/nwaʁ.si.sje/		 noircissent
/nwaʁ.sis/
imperfect2 noircisse
/nwaʁ.sis/		 noircisses
/nwaʁ.sis/		 noircît
/nwaʁ.si/		 noircissions
/nwaʁ.si.sjɔ̃/		 noircissiez
/nwaʁ.si.sje/		 noircissent
/nwaʁ.sis/
(compound
tenses)		 past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — noircis
/nwaʁ.si/		 — noircissons
/nwaʁ.si.sɔ̃/		 noircissez
/nwaʁ.si.se/		 —
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).

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References

Further reading

Old French

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *nigricīre, from Latin nigrēscō, nigrēscere. Compare Old Occitan negrezir.

Verb

noircir

  1. to blacken (become black)

Descendants
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