paraitre
See also: paraître
French
Pronunciation
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Verb
paraitre
- post-1990 spelling of paraître
Usage notes
- In the sense of to be published, this verb can take the verb être as the perfect auxiliary.[1]
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)
infinitive | simple | paraitre | |||||
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compound | avoir or être + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | paraissant /pa.ʁɛ.sɑ̃/ or /pa.ʁe.sɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant or étant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | paru /pa.ʁy/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) | present | parais /pa.ʁɛ/ | parais /pa.ʁɛ/ | parait /pa.ʁɛ/ | paraissons /pa.ʁɛ.sɔ̃/ or /pa.ʁe.sɔ̃/ | paraissez /pa.ʁɛ.se/ or /pa.ʁe.se/ | paraissent /pa.ʁɛs/ |
imperfect | paraissais /pa.ʁɛ.sɛ/ or /pa.ʁe.sɛ/ | paraissais /pa.ʁɛ.sɛ/ or /pa.ʁe.sɛ/ | paraissait /pa.ʁɛ.sɛ/ or /pa.ʁe.sɛ/ | paraissions /pa.ʁɛ.sjɔ̃/ or /pa.ʁe.sjɔ̃/ | paraissiez /pa.ʁɛ.sje/ or /pa.ʁe.sje/ | paraissaient /pa.ʁɛ.sɛ/ or /pa.ʁe.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/ or /pa.ʁe.tʁe/ | paraitras /pa.ʁɛ.tʁa/ or /pa.ʁe.tʁa/ | paraitra /pa.ʁɛ.tʁa/ or /pa.ʁe.tʁa/ | paraitrons /pa.ʁɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /pa.ʁe.tʁɔ̃/ | paraitrez /pa.ʁɛ.tʁe/ or /pa.ʁe.tʁe/ | paraitront /pa.ʁɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /pa.ʁe.tʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | paraitrais /pa.ʁɛ.tʁɛ/ or /pa.ʁe.tʁɛ/ | paraitrais /pa.ʁɛ.tʁɛ/ or /pa.ʁe.tʁɛ/ | paraitrait /pa.ʁɛ.tʁɛ/ or /pa.ʁe.tʁɛ/ | paraitrions /pa.ʁɛ.tʁi.jɔ̃/ or /pa.ʁe.tʁi.jɔ̃/ | paraitriez /pa.ʁɛ.tʁi.je/ or /pa.ʁe.tʁi.je/ | paraitraient /pa.ʁɛ.tʁɛ/ or /pa.ʁe.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/ or /pa.ʁe.sjɔ̃/ | paraissiez /pa.ʁɛ.sje/ or /pa.ʁe.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/ or /pa.ʁe.sɔ̃/ | paraissez /pa.ʁɛ.se/ or /pa.ʁe.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 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). |
References
- “paraitre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Further reading
- “paraitre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- parerait, piratera, râperait, repaitra, repaîtra, reparait, reparaît, réparait, repatria