dépérir

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin dēperīre, present active infinitive of dēpereō.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /de.pe.ʁiʁ/
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Verb

dépérir

  1. (intransitive) to fade away, decline, wither (away), go downhill

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-.

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