bleuir
French
Etymology
From bleu.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /blø.iʁ/
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Verb
bleuir
- (transitive) to make blue, turn blue
- (intransitive) to turn blue, go blue
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 bleuir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | bleuir | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | bleuissant /blø.i.sɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | bleui /blø.i/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) | present | bleuis /blø.i/ | bleuis /blø.i/ | bleuit /blø.i/ | bleuissons /blø.i.sɔ̃/ | bleuissez /blø.i.se/ | bleuissent /blø.is/ |
imperfect | bleuissais /blø.i.sɛ/ | bleuissais /blø.i.sɛ/ | bleuissait /blø.i.sɛ/ | bleuissions /blø.i.sjɔ̃/ | bleuissiez /blø.i.sje/ | bleuissaient /blø.i.sɛ/ | |
past historic2 | bleuis /blø.i/ | bleuis /blø.i/ | bleuit /blø.i/ | bleuîmes /blø.im/ | bleuîtes /blø.it/ | bleuirent /blø.iʁ/ | |
future | bleuirai /blø.i.ʁe/ | bleuiras /blø.i.ʁa/ | bleuira /blø.i.ʁa/ | bleuirons /blø.i.ʁɔ̃/ | bleuirez /blø.i.ʁe/ | bleuiront /blø.i.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | bleuirais /blø.i.ʁɛ/ | bleuirais /blø.i.ʁɛ/ | bleuirait /blø.i.ʁɛ/ | bleuirions /blø.i.ʁjɔ̃/ | bleuiriez /blø.i.ʁje/ | bleuiraient /blø.i.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 | bleuisse /blø.is/ | bleuisses /blø.is/ | bleuisse /blø.is/ | bleuissions /blø.i.sjɔ̃/ | bleuissiez /blø.i.sje/ | bleuissent /blø.is/ |
imperfect2 | bleuisse /blø.is/ | bleuisses /blø.is/ | bleuît /blø.i/ | bleuissions /blø.i.sjɔ̃/ | bleuissiez /blø.i.sje/ | bleuissent /blø.is/ | |
(compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | bleuis /blø.i/ | — | bleuissons /blø.i.sɔ̃/ | bleuissez /blø.i.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). |
Derived terms
- bleuissement
Further reading
- “bleuir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.