étirer

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /e.ti.ʁe/

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Verb

étirer

1. to stretch
2. (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		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
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: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (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