paraitre
See also: paraître
French
Usage notes
This spelling was a product of the 1990 French spelling reforms.
Conjugation
This verb is one of a fairly small group of -re verbs, that are all conjugated the same way. They are conjugated the same as the alternative spelling, which has a circumflex over the ‘i’, except that the circumflex is dropped here.
Conjugation of paraitre (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| present participle | paraissant /pa.ʁɛ.sɑ̃/ | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| past participle | paru /pa.ʁy/ | ||||||
| infinitive | |||||||
| simple | paraitre | ||||||
| compound | avoir or être + past participle | ||||||
| gerund1 | |||||||
| simple | paraissant /pa.ʁɛ.sɑ̃/ | ||||||
| compound | ayant or étant + past participle | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | parais /pa.ʁɛ/ |
parais /pa.ʁɛ/ |
parait /pa.ʁɛ/ |
paraissons /pa.ʁɛ.sɔ̃/ |
paraissez /pa.ʁɛ.se/ |
paraissent /pa.ʁɛs/ |
| imperfect | paraissais /pa.ʁɛ.sɛ/ |
paraissais /pa.ʁɛ.sɛ/ |
paraissait /pa.ʁɛ.sɛ/ |
paraissions /pa.ʁɛ.sjɔ̃/ |
paraissiez /pa.ʁɛ.sje/ |
paraissaient /pa.ʁɛ.sɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | parus /pa.ʁy/ |
parus /pa.ʁy/ |
parut /pa.ʁy/ |
parûmes /pa.ʁym/ |
parûtes /pa.ʁyt/ |
parurent /pa.ʁyʁ/ | |
| future | paraitrai /pa.ʁɛ.tʁe/ |
paraitras /pa.ʁɛ.tʁa/ |
paraitra /pa.ʁɛ.tʁa/ |
paraitrons /pa.ʁɛ.tʁɔ̃/ |
paraitrez /pa.ʁɛ.tʁe/ |
paraitront /pa.ʁɛ.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | paraitrais /pa.ʁɛ.tʁɛ/ |
paraitrais /pa.ʁɛ.tʁɛ/ |
paraitrait /pa.ʁɛ.tʁɛ/ |
paraitrions /pa.ʁɛ.tʁi.jɔ̃/ |
paraitriez /pa.ʁɛ.tʁi.je/ |
paraitraient /pa.ʁɛ.tʁɛ/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir or être + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir or être + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior2 | past historic of avoir or être + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future of avoir or être + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional of avoir or être + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | paraisse /pa.ʁɛs/ |
paraisses /pa.ʁɛs/ |
paraisse /pa.ʁɛs/ |
paraissions /pa.ʁɛ.sjɔ̃/ |
paraissiez /pa.ʁɛ.sje/ |
paraissent /pa.ʁɛs/ |
| imperfect2 | parusse /pa.ʁys/ |
parusses /pa.ʁys/ |
parût /pa.ʁy/ |
parussions /pa.ʁy.sjɔ̃/ |
parussiez /pa.ʁy.sje/ |
parussent /pa.ʁys/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir or être + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir or être + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | parais /pa.ʁɛ/ |
— | paraissons /pa.ʁɛ.sɔ̃/ |
paraissez /pa.ʁɛ.se/ |
— | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir or être + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir or être + past participle | simple imperative of avoir or 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). | |||||||
Further reading
- “paraitre” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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