pâlir

See also: palir

French

Etymology

From pâle.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa.liʁ/ ~ /pɑ.liʁ/

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Verb

pâlir

1. to pale; to fade (lose color)
2. to fade (lose glory or power)

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 pâlir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	pâlir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	pâlissant /pa.li.sɑ̃/ or /pɑ.li.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		pâli /pa.li/ or /pɑ.li/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	pâlis /pa.li/ or /pɑ.li/	pâlis /pa.li/ or /pɑ.li/	pâlit /pa.li/ or /pɑ.li/	pâlissons /pa.li.sɔ̃/ or /pɑ.li.sɔ̃/	pâlissez /pa.li.se/ or /pɑ.li.se/	pâlissent /pa.lis/ or /pɑ.lis/
	imperfect	pâlissais /pa.li.sɛ/ or /pɑ.li.sɛ/	pâlissais /pa.li.sɛ/ or /pɑ.li.sɛ/	pâlissait /pa.li.sɛ/ or /pɑ.li.sɛ/	pâlissions /pa.li.sjɔ̃/ or /pɑ.li.sjɔ̃/	pâlissiez /pa.li.sje/ or /pɑ.li.sje/	pâlissaient /pa.li.sɛ/ or /pɑ.li.sɛ/
	past historic2	pâlis /pa.li/ or /pɑ.li/	pâlis /pa.li/ or /pɑ.li/	pâlit /pa.li/ or /pɑ.li/	pâlîmes /pa.lim/ or /pɑ.lim/	pâlîtes /pa.lit/ or /pɑ.lit/	pâlirent /pa.liʁ/ or /pɑ.liʁ/
	future	pâlirai /pa.li.ʁe/ or /pɑ.li.ʁe/	pâliras /pa.li.ʁa/ or /pɑ.li.ʁa/	pâlira /pa.li.ʁa/ or /pɑ.li.ʁa/	pâlirons /pa.li.ʁɔ̃/ or /pɑ.li.ʁɔ̃/	pâlirez /pa.li.ʁe/ or /pɑ.li.ʁe/	pâliront /pa.li.ʁɔ̃/ or /pɑ.li.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	pâlirais /pa.li.ʁɛ/ or /pɑ.li.ʁɛ/	pâlirais /pa.li.ʁɛ/ or /pɑ.li.ʁɛ/	pâlirait /pa.li.ʁɛ/ or /pɑ.li.ʁɛ/	pâlirions /pa.li.ʁjɔ̃/ or /pɑ.li.ʁjɔ̃/	pâliriez /pa.li.ʁje/ or /pɑ.li.ʁje/	pâliraient /pa.li.ʁɛ/ or /pɑ.li.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	pâlisse /pa.lis/ or /pɑ.lis/	pâlisses /pa.lis/ or /pɑ.lis/	pâlisse /pa.lis/ or /pɑ.lis/	pâlissions /pa.li.sjɔ̃/ or /pɑ.li.sjɔ̃/	pâlissiez /pa.li.sje/ or /pɑ.li.sje/	pâlissent /pa.lis/ or /pɑ.lis/
	imperfect2	pâlisse /pa.lis/ or /pɑ.lis/	pâlisses /pa.lis/ or /pɑ.lis/	pâlît /pa.li/ or /pɑ.li/	pâlissions /pa.li.sjɔ̃/ or /pɑ.li.sjɔ̃/	pâlissiez /pa.li.sje/ or /pɑ.li.sje/	pâlissent /pa.lis/ or /pɑ.lis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	pâlis /pa.li/ or /pɑ.li/	—	pâlissons /pa.li.sɔ̃/ or /pɑ.li.sɔ̃/	pâlissez /pa.li.se/ or /pɑ.li.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).

Further reading

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