vernir

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɛʁ.niʁ/

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Verb

vernir

1. to varnish

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 vernir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	vernir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	vernissant /vɛʁ.ni.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		verni /vɛʁ.ni/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	vernis /vɛʁ.ni/	vernis /vɛʁ.ni/	vernit /vɛʁ.ni/	vernissons /vɛʁ.ni.sɔ̃/	vernissez /vɛʁ.ni.se/	vernissent /vɛʁ.nis/
	imperfect	vernissais /vɛʁ.ni.sɛ/	vernissais /vɛʁ.ni.sɛ/	vernissait /vɛʁ.ni.sɛ/	vernissions /vɛʁ.ni.sjɔ̃/	vernissiez /vɛʁ.ni.sje/	vernissaient /vɛʁ.ni.sɛ/
	past historic2	vernis /vɛʁ.ni/	vernis /vɛʁ.ni/	vernit /vɛʁ.ni/	vernîmes /vɛʁ.nim/	vernîtes /vɛʁ.nit/	vernirent /vɛʁ.niʁ/
	future	vernirai /vɛʁ.ni.ʁe/	verniras /vɛʁ.ni.ʁa/	vernira /vɛʁ.ni.ʁa/	vernirons /vɛʁ.ni.ʁɔ̃/	vernirez /vɛʁ.ni.ʁe/	verniront /vɛʁ.ni.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	vernirais /vɛʁ.ni.ʁɛ/	vernirais /vɛʁ.ni.ʁɛ/	vernirait /vɛʁ.ni.ʁɛ/	vernirions /vɛʁ.ni.ʁjɔ̃/	verniriez /vɛʁ.ni.ʁje/	verniraient /vɛʁ.ni.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	vernisse /vɛʁ.nis/	vernisses /vɛʁ.nis/	vernisse /vɛʁ.nis/	vernissions /vɛʁ.ni.sjɔ̃/	vernissiez /vɛʁ.ni.sje/	vernissent /vɛʁ.nis/
	imperfect2	vernisse /vɛʁ.nis/	vernisses /vɛʁ.nis/	vernît /vɛʁ.ni/	vernissions /vɛʁ.ni.sjɔ̃/	vernissiez /vɛʁ.ni.sje/	vernissent /vɛʁ.nis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	vernis /vɛʁ.ni/	—	vernissons /vɛʁ.ni.sɔ̃/	vernissez /vɛʁ.ni.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: 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

• verni
• vernis
• revernir

Further reading

• “vernir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.