étirer
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /e.ti.ʁe/
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Verb
étirer
- to stretch
- (reflexive, s'étirer) to stretch (stretch one's muscles)
Conjugation
Conjugation of étirer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | étirer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | étirant /e.ti.ʁɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | étiré /e.ti.ʁe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | étire /e.tiʁ/ | étires /e.tiʁ/ | étire /e.tiʁ/ | étirons /e.ti.ʁɔ̃/ | étirez /e.ti.ʁe/ | étirent /e.tiʁ/ |
| imperfect | étirais /e.ti.ʁɛ/ | étirais /e.ti.ʁɛ/ | étirait /e.ti.ʁɛ/ | étirions /e.ti.ʁjɔ̃/ | étiriez /e.ti.ʁje/ | étiraient /e.ti.ʁɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | étirai /e.ti.ʁe/ | étiras /e.ti.ʁa/ | étira /e.ti.ʁa/ | étirâmes /e.ti.ʁam/ | étirâtes /e.ti.ʁat/ | étirèrent /e.ti.ʁɛʁ/ | |
| future | étirerai /e.ti.ʁə.ʁe/ | étireras /e.ti.ʁə.ʁa/ | étirera /e.ti.ʁə.ʁa/ | étirerons /e.ti.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ | étirerez /e.ti.ʁə.ʁe/ | étireront /e.ti.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | étirerais /e.ti.ʁə.ʁɛ/ | étirerais /e.ti.ʁə.ʁɛ/ | étirerait /e.ti.ʁə.ʁɛ/ | étirerions /e.ti.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/ | étireriez /e.ti.ʁə.ʁje/ | étireraient /e.ti.ʁə.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 | étire /e.tiʁ/ | étires /e.tiʁ/ | étire /e.tiʁ/ | étirions /e.ti.ʁjɔ̃/ | étiriez /e.ti.ʁje/ | étirent /e.tiʁ/ |
| imperfect2 | étirasse /e.ti.ʁas/ | étirasses /e.ti.ʁas/ | étirât /e.ti.ʁa/ | étirassions /e.ti.ʁa.sjɔ̃/ | étirassiez /e.ti.ʁa.sje/ | étirassent /e.ti.ʁas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | étire /e.tiʁ/ | — | étirons /e.ti.ʁɔ̃/ | étirez /e.ti.ʁe/ | — | |
| 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). | |||||||
Derived terms
- s'étirer les jambes
Further reading
- “étirer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- étrier, itérer, retire, retiré