blairer

French

Etymology

From blair ("nose").

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /blɛ.ʁe/ ~ /ble.ʁe/

Verb

blairer

1. (transitive, slang, often in the negative) to stand (the sight of)

   Je ne peux pas le blairer.

   I can't stand him.

Conjugation

Conjugation of blairer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	blairer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	blairant /blɛ.ʁɑ̃/ or /ble.ʁɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		blairé /blɛ.ʁe/ or /ble.ʁe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	blaire /blɛʁ/	blaires /blɛʁ/	blaire /blɛʁ/	blairons /blɛ.ʁɔ̃/ or /ble.ʁɔ̃/	blairez /blɛ.ʁe/ or /ble.ʁe/	blairent /blɛʁ/
	imperfect	blairais /blɛ.ʁɛ/ or /ble.ʁɛ/	blairais /blɛ.ʁɛ/ or /ble.ʁɛ/	blairait /blɛ.ʁɛ/ or /ble.ʁɛ/	blairions /blɛ.ʁjɔ̃/ or /ble.ʁjɔ̃/	blairiez /blɛ.ʁje/ or /ble.ʁje/	blairaient /blɛ.ʁɛ/ or /ble.ʁɛ/
	past historic2	blairai /blɛ.ʁe/ or /ble.ʁe/	blairas /blɛ.ʁa/ or /ble.ʁa/	blaira /blɛ.ʁa/ or /ble.ʁa/	blairâmes /blɛ.ʁam/ or /ble.ʁam/	blairâtes /blɛ.ʁat/ or /ble.ʁat/	blairèrent /blɛ.ʁɛʁ/ or /ble.ʁɛʁ/
	future	blairerai /blɛ.ʁə.ʁe/ or /ble.ʁə.ʁe/	blaireras /blɛ.ʁə.ʁa/ or /ble.ʁə.ʁa/	blairera /blɛ.ʁə.ʁa/ or /ble.ʁə.ʁa/	blairerons /blɛ.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ or /ble.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/	blairerez /blɛ.ʁə.ʁe/ or /ble.ʁə.ʁe/	blaireront /blɛ.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ or /ble.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	blairerais /blɛ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ or /ble.ʁə.ʁɛ/	blairerais /blɛ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ or /ble.ʁə.ʁɛ/	blairerait /blɛ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ or /ble.ʁə.ʁɛ/	blairerions /blɛ.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /ble.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/	blaireriez /blɛ.ʁə.ʁje/ or /ble.ʁə.ʁje/	blaireraient /blɛ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ or /ble.ʁə.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	blaire /blɛʁ/	blaires /blɛʁ/	blaire /blɛʁ/	blairions /blɛ.ʁjɔ̃/ or /ble.ʁjɔ̃/	blairiez /blɛ.ʁje/ or /ble.ʁje/	blairent /blɛʁ/
	imperfect2	blairasse /blɛ.ʁas/ or /ble.ʁas/	blairasses /blɛ.ʁas/ or /ble.ʁas/	blairât /blɛ.ʁa/ or /ble.ʁa/	blairassions /blɛ.ʁa.sjɔ̃/ or /ble.ʁa.sjɔ̃/	blairassiez /blɛ.ʁa.sje/ or /ble.ʁa.sje/	blairassent /blɛ.ʁas/ or /ble.ʁas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	blaire /blɛʁ/	—	blairons /blɛ.ʁɔ̃/ or /ble.ʁɔ̃/	blairez /blɛ.ʁe/ or /ble.ʁe/	—
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

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