apparaître
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See also apparaitre
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French [edit]
Alternative forms [edit]
- apparaitre (since 1990)
Etymology [edit]
Middle French apparoistre, from Old French aparoistre, from Latin appārēscere, present active infinitive of appārēscō (“begin to appear”), from appareō.
Pronunciation [edit]
Verb [edit]
apparaître
- to appear (become visible)
- Dans la nuit, il vit un spectre apparaître.
Conjugation [edit]
- avoir auxiliary can also be used, indicating action rather than state. However, in common usage, être tends to replace avoir for all senses. [1][2]
- This verb is one of a fairly small group of -re verbs, that are all conjugated the same way. They are unlike other verb groups in that the ‘i’ is given a circumflex before a ‘t’.
Conjugation of apparaître (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | apparaître | être apparu | |||||
| gerund | en apparaissant | en étant apparu | |||||
| present participle | apparaissant | ||||||
| past participle | apparu | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | apparais | apparais | apparaît | apparaissons | apparaissez | apparaissent |
| imperfect | apparaissais | apparaissais | apparaissait | apparaissions | apparaissiez | apparaissaient | |
| past historic1 | apparus | apparus | apparut | apparûmes | apparûtes | apparurent | |
| future | apparaîtrai | apparaîtras | apparaîtra | apparaîtrons | apparaîtrez | apparaîtront | |
| conditional | apparaîtrais | apparaîtrais | apparaîtrait | apparaîtrions | apparaîtriez | apparaîtraient | |
| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of être followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of être followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior1 | Use the past historic tense of être followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of être followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of être followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | apparaisse | apparaisses | apparaisse | apparaissions | apparaissiez | apparaissent |
| imperfect1 | apparusse | apparusses | apparût | apparussions | apparussiez | apparussent | |
| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive of être followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive of être followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | apparais | — | apparaissons | apparaissez | — | ||
| 1literary tenses | |||||||