blettir
French
Etymology
From blet.
Pronunciation
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Verb
blettir
- to overripen
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 blettir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | blettir | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | blettissant /blɛ.ti.sɑ̃/ or /ble.ti.sɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | bletti /blɛ.ti/ or /ble.ti/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) | present | blettis /blɛ.ti/ or /ble.ti/ | blettis /blɛ.ti/ or /ble.ti/ | blettit /blɛ.ti/ or /ble.ti/ | blettissons /blɛ.ti.sɔ̃/ or /ble.ti.sɔ̃/ | blettissez /blɛ.ti.se/ or /ble.ti.se/ | blettissent /blɛ.tis/ or /ble.tis/ |
imperfect | blettissais /blɛ.ti.sɛ/ or /ble.ti.sɛ/ | blettissais /blɛ.ti.sɛ/ or /ble.ti.sɛ/ | blettissait /blɛ.ti.sɛ/ or /ble.ti.sɛ/ | blettissions /blɛ.ti.sjɔ̃/ or /ble.ti.sjɔ̃/ | blettissiez /blɛ.ti.sje/ or /ble.ti.sje/ | blettissaient /blɛ.ti.sɛ/ or /ble.ti.sɛ/ | |
past historic2 | blettis /blɛ.ti/ or /ble.ti/ | blettis /blɛ.ti/ or /ble.ti/ | blettit /blɛ.ti/ or /ble.ti/ | blettîmes /blɛ.tim/ or /ble.tim/ | blettîtes /blɛ.tit/ or /ble.tit/ | blettirent /blɛ.tiʁ/ or /ble.tiʁ/ | |
future | blettirai /blɛ.ti.ʁe/ or /ble.ti.ʁe/ | blettiras /blɛ.ti.ʁa/ or /ble.ti.ʁa/ | blettira /blɛ.ti.ʁa/ or /ble.ti.ʁa/ | blettirons /blɛ.ti.ʁɔ̃/ or /ble.ti.ʁɔ̃/ | blettirez /blɛ.ti.ʁe/ or /ble.ti.ʁe/ | blettiront /blɛ.ti.ʁɔ̃/ or /ble.ti.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | blettirais /blɛ.ti.ʁɛ/ or /ble.ti.ʁɛ/ | blettirais /blɛ.ti.ʁɛ/ or /ble.ti.ʁɛ/ | blettirait /blɛ.ti.ʁɛ/ or /ble.ti.ʁɛ/ | blettirions /blɛ.ti.ʁjɔ̃/ or /ble.ti.ʁjɔ̃/ | blettiriez /blɛ.ti.ʁje/ or /ble.ti.ʁje/ | blettiraient /blɛ.ti.ʁɛ/ or /ble.ti.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 | blettisse /blɛ.tis/ or /ble.tis/ | blettisses /blɛ.tis/ or /ble.tis/ | blettisse /blɛ.tis/ or /ble.tis/ | blettissions /blɛ.ti.sjɔ̃/ or /ble.ti.sjɔ̃/ | blettissiez /blɛ.ti.sje/ or /ble.ti.sje/ | blettissent /blɛ.tis/ or /ble.tis/ |
imperfect2 | blettisse /blɛ.tis/ or /ble.tis/ | blettisses /blɛ.tis/ or /ble.tis/ | blettît /blɛ.ti/ or /ble.ti/ | blettissions /blɛ.ti.sjɔ̃/ or /ble.ti.sjɔ̃/ | blettissiez /blɛ.ti.sje/ or /ble.ti.sje/ | blettissent /blɛ.tis/ or /ble.tis/ | |
(compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | blettis /blɛ.ti/ or /ble.ti/ | — | blettissons /blɛ.ti.sɔ̃/ or /ble.ti.sɔ̃/ | blettissez /blɛ.ti.se/ or /ble.ti.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
- “blettir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Icelandic
Noun
blettir
- indefinite nominative plural of blettur