mûrir
See also: murir
French
Alternative forms
- murir (since the 1990 spelling reform)
Etymology
From Old French meürer with change of conjugation, from Latin mātūrāre. Equivalent to mûr (“mature”) + -ir.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /my.ʁiʁ/
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Verb
mûrir
- (intransitive, figuratively) to mature, to become mature
- (intransitive) to ripen, to become ripe
- (transitive) to mature, to cause to be mature
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 mûrir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | mûrir | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | mûrissant /my.ʁi.sɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | mûri /my.ʁi/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) | present | mûris /my.ʁi/ | mûris /my.ʁi/ | mûrit /my.ʁi/ | mûrissons /my.ʁi.sɔ̃/ | mûrissez /my.ʁi.se/ | mûrissent /my.ʁis/ |
imperfect | mûrissais /my.ʁi.sɛ/ | mûrissais /my.ʁi.sɛ/ | mûrissait /my.ʁi.sɛ/ | mûrissions /my.ʁi.sjɔ̃/ | mûrissiez /my.ʁi.sje/ | mûrissaient /my.ʁi.sɛ/ | |
past historic2 | mûris /my.ʁi/ | mûris /my.ʁi/ | mûrit /my.ʁi/ | mûrîmes /my.ʁim/ | mûrîtes /my.ʁit/ | mûrirent /my.ʁiʁ/ | |
future | mûrirai /my.ʁi.ʁe/ | mûriras /my.ʁi.ʁa/ | mûrira /my.ʁi.ʁa/ | mûrirons /my.ʁi.ʁɔ̃/ | mûrirez /my.ʁi.ʁe/ | mûriront /my.ʁi.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | mûrirais /my.ʁi.ʁɛ/ | mûrirais /my.ʁi.ʁɛ/ | mûrirait /my.ʁi.ʁɛ/ | mûririons /my.ʁi.ʁjɔ̃/ | mûririez /my.ʁi.ʁje/ | mûriraient /my.ʁi.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 | mûrisse /my.ʁis/ | mûrisses /my.ʁis/ | mûrisse /my.ʁis/ | mûrissions /my.ʁi.sjɔ̃/ | mûrissiez /my.ʁi.sje/ | mûrissent /my.ʁis/ |
imperfect2 | mûrisse /my.ʁis/ | mûrisses /my.ʁis/ | mûrît /my.ʁi/ | mûrissions /my.ʁi.sjɔ̃/ | mûrissiez /my.ʁi.sje/ | mûrissent /my.ʁis/ | |
(compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | mûris /my.ʁi/ | — | mûrissons /my.ʁi.sɔ̃/ | mûrissez /my.ʁi.se/ | — | |
compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). |
Related terms
- mûrement
- mûrissage
- mûrissement
- mûrisserie
Further reading
- “mûrir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.