paraître
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French [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Old French paroistre < Vulgar Latin *parescere < Latin pārēre, present active infinitive of pāreō. Compare Occitan paréisser, Catalan parèixer, Spanish and Portuguese parecer.
Pronunciation [edit]
Alternative forms [edit]
Verb [edit]
paraître
- To appear (become visible)
- L'acteur parut sur l'écran. — The actor appeared on screen.
- To be published
- Ce texte est paru il y a longtemps. — This text was published long ago.
- To appear, to seem
- Il paraît avoir 40 ans. — He seems forty (years old).
Conjugation [edit]
- In the sense of to be published, this verb can take the verb être as the auxiliary.[1]
- 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 paraître (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | paraître | avoir or être paru | |||||
| gerund | en paraissant | en ayant paru or en étant paru | |||||
| present participle | paraissant | ||||||
| past participle | paru | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | parais | parais | paraît | paraissons | paraissez | paraissent |
| imperfect | paraissais | paraissais | paraissait | paraissions | paraissiez | paraissaient | |
| past historic1 | parus | parus | parut | parûmes | parûtes | parurent | |
| future | paraîtrai | paraîtras | paraîtra | paraîtrons | paraîtrez | paraîtront | |
| conditional | paraîtrais | paraîtrais | paraîtrait | paraîtrions | paraîtriez | paraîtraient | |
| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir or être followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir or être followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior1 | Use the past historic tense of avoir or être followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir or être followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir or être followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | paraisse | paraisses | paraisse | paraissions | paraissiez | paraissent |
| imperfect1 | parusse | parusses | parût | parussions | parussiez | parussent | |
| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive of avoir or être followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive of avoir or être followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | parais | — | paraissons | paraissez | — | ||
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