pâlir
See also: palir
French
Etymology
From pâle.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pa.liʁ/, /pɑ.liʁ/
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Verb
pâlir
- to pale; to fade (lose color)
- to fade (lose glory or power)
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 pâlir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | pâlir | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | pâlissant /pa.li.sɑ̃/ or /pɑ.li.sɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | pâli /pa.li/ or /pɑ.li/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | pâlis /pa.li/ or /pɑ.li/ | pâlis /pa.li/ or /pɑ.li/ | pâlit /pa.li/ or /pɑ.li/ | pâlissons /pa.li.sɔ̃/ or /pɑ.li.sɔ̃/ | pâlissez /pa.li.se/ or /pɑ.li.se/ | pâlissent /pa.lis/ or /pɑ.lis/ |
| imperfect | pâlissais /pa.li.sɛ/ or /pɑ.li.sɛ/ | pâlissais /pa.li.sɛ/ or /pɑ.li.sɛ/ | pâlissait /pa.li.sɛ/ or /pɑ.li.sɛ/ | pâlissions /pa.li.sjɔ̃/ or /pɑ.li.sjɔ̃/ | pâlissiez /pa.li.sje/ or /pɑ.li.sje/ | pâlissaient /pa.li.sɛ/ or /pɑ.li.sɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | pâlis /pa.li/ or /pɑ.li/ | pâlis /pa.li/ or /pɑ.li/ | pâlit /pa.li/ or /pɑ.li/ | pâlîmes /pa.lim/ or /pɑ.lim/ | pâlîtes /pa.lit/ or /pɑ.lit/ | pâlirent /pa.liʁ/ or /pɑ.liʁ/ | |
| future | pâlirai /pa.li.ʁe/ or /pɑ.li.ʁe/ | pâliras /pa.li.ʁa/ or /pɑ.li.ʁa/ | pâlira /pa.li.ʁa/ or /pɑ.li.ʁa/ | pâlirons /pa.li.ʁɔ̃/ or /pɑ.li.ʁɔ̃/ | pâlirez /pa.li.ʁe/ or /pɑ.li.ʁe/ | pâliront /pa.li.ʁɔ̃/ or /pɑ.li.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | pâlirais /pa.li.ʁɛ/ or /pɑ.li.ʁɛ/ | pâlirais /pa.li.ʁɛ/ or /pɑ.li.ʁɛ/ | pâlirait /pa.li.ʁɛ/ or /pɑ.li.ʁɛ/ | pâlirions /pa.li.ʁjɔ̃/ or /pɑ.li.ʁjɔ̃/ | pâliriez /pa.li.ʁje/ or /pɑ.li.ʁje/ | pâliraient /pa.li.ʁɛ/ or /pɑ.li.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 | pâlisse /pa.lis/ or /pɑ.lis/ | pâlisses /pa.lis/ or /pɑ.lis/ | pâlisse /pa.lis/ or /pɑ.lis/ | pâlissions /pa.li.sjɔ̃/ or /pɑ.li.sjɔ̃/ | pâlissiez /pa.li.sje/ or /pɑ.li.sje/ | pâlissent /pa.lis/ or /pɑ.lis/ |
| imperfect2 | pâlisse /pa.lis/ or /pɑ.lis/ | pâlisses /pa.lis/ or /pɑ.lis/ | pâlît /pa.li/ or /pɑ.li/ | pâlissions /pa.li.sjɔ̃/ or /pɑ.li.sjɔ̃/ | pâlissiez /pa.li.sje/ or /pɑ.li.sje/ | pâlissent /pa.lis/ or /pɑ.lis/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | pâlis /pa.li/ or /pɑ.li/ | — | pâlissons /pa.li.sɔ̃/ or /pɑ.li.sɔ̃/ | pâlissez /pa.li.se/ or /pɑ.li.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). | |||||||
Further reading
- “pâlir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.