flairer
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French [edit]
Etymology [edit]
Vulgar Latin *flagrare, from Latin fragrare.
Pronunciation [edit]
Verb [edit]
flairer
- (transitive) to smell, sniff (at)
- (transitive, hunting) to scent
- (transitive) to sense
Conjugation [edit]
Conjugation of flairer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | flairer | avoir flairé | |||||
| gerund | en flairant | en ayant flairé | |||||
| present participle | flairant | ||||||
| past participle | flairé | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | flaire | flaires | flaire | flairons | flairez | flairent |
| imperfect | flairais | flairais | flairait | flairions | flairiez | flairaient | |
| past historic1 | flairai | flairas | flaira | flairâmes | flairâtes | flairèrent | |
| future | flairerai | flaireras | flairera | flairerons | flairerez | flaireront | |
| conditional | flairerais | flairerais | flairerait | flairerions | flaireriez | flaireraient | |
| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior1 | Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | flaire | flaires | flaire | flairions | flairiez | flairent |
| imperfect1 | flairasse | flairasses | flairât | flairassions | flairassiez | flairassent | |
| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | flaire | — | flairons | flairez | — | ||
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