disparaître

See also: disparaitre

French

Alternative forms

• disparaitre

Etymology

Formed from dis- +‎ paraître, based on Late Latin dispareo, disparere.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dis.pa.ʁɛtʁ/

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• Rhymes: -ɛtʁ

Verb

disparaître

1. to disappear
2. (video games) to despawn

Conjugation

• While the verb usually takes avoir as an auxiliary verb, in a literary context it can take être.

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 disparaître (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	disparaître
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	disparaissant /dis.pa.ʁɛ.sɑ̃/ or /dis.pa.ʁe.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		disparu /dis.pa.ʁy/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	disparais /dis.pa.ʁɛ/	disparais /dis.pa.ʁɛ/	disparaît /dis.pa.ʁɛ/	disparaissons /dis.pa.ʁɛ.sɔ̃/ or /dis.pa.ʁe.sɔ̃/	disparaissez /dis.pa.ʁɛ.se/ or /dis.pa.ʁe.se/	disparaissent /dis.pa.ʁɛs/
	imperfect	disparaissais /dis.pa.ʁɛ.sɛ/ or /dis.pa.ʁe.sɛ/	disparaissais /dis.pa.ʁɛ.sɛ/ or /dis.pa.ʁe.sɛ/	disparaissait /dis.pa.ʁɛ.sɛ/ or /dis.pa.ʁe.sɛ/	disparaissions /dis.pa.ʁɛ.sjɔ̃/ or /dis.pa.ʁe.sjɔ̃/	disparaissiez /dis.pa.ʁɛ.sje/ or /dis.pa.ʁe.sje/	disparaissaient /dis.pa.ʁɛ.sɛ/ or /dis.pa.ʁe.sɛ/
	past historic2	disparus /dis.pa.ʁy/	disparus /dis.pa.ʁy/	disparut /dis.pa.ʁy/	disparûmes /dis.pa.ʁym/	disparûtes /dis.pa.ʁyt/	disparurent /dis.pa.ʁyʁ/
	future	disparaîtrai /dis.pa.ʁɛ.tʁe/ or /dis.pa.ʁe.tʁe/	disparaîtras /dis.pa.ʁɛ.tʁa/ or /dis.pa.ʁe.tʁa/	disparaîtra /dis.pa.ʁɛ.tʁa/ or /dis.pa.ʁe.tʁa/	disparaîtrons /dis.pa.ʁɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /dis.pa.ʁe.tʁɔ̃/	disparaîtrez /dis.pa.ʁɛ.tʁe/ or /dis.pa.ʁe.tʁe/	disparaîtront /dis.pa.ʁɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /dis.pa.ʁe.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	disparaîtrais /dis.pa.ʁɛ.tʁɛ/ or /dis.pa.ʁe.tʁɛ/	disparaîtrais /dis.pa.ʁɛ.tʁɛ/ or /dis.pa.ʁe.tʁɛ/	disparaîtrait /dis.pa.ʁɛ.tʁɛ/ or /dis.pa.ʁe.tʁɛ/	disparaîtrions /dis.pa.ʁɛ.tʁi.jɔ̃/ or /dis.pa.ʁe.tʁi.jɔ̃/	disparaîtriez /dis.pa.ʁɛ.tʁi.je/ or /dis.pa.ʁe.tʁi.je/	disparaîtraient /dis.pa.ʁɛ.tʁɛ/ or /dis.pa.ʁe.tʁɛ/
(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	disparaisse /dis.pa.ʁɛs/	disparaisses /dis.pa.ʁɛs/	disparaisse /dis.pa.ʁɛs/	disparaissions /dis.pa.ʁɛ.sjɔ̃/ or /dis.pa.ʁe.sjɔ̃/	disparaissiez /dis.pa.ʁɛ.sje/ or /dis.pa.ʁe.sje/	disparaissent /dis.pa.ʁɛs/
	imperfect2	disparusse /dis.pa.ʁys/	disparusses /dis.pa.ʁys/	disparût /dis.pa.ʁy/	disparussions /dis.pa.ʁy.sjɔ̃/	disparussiez /dis.pa.ʁy.sje/	disparussent /dis.pa.ʁys/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	disparais /dis.pa.ʁɛ/	—	disparaissons /dis.pa.ʁɛ.sɔ̃/ or /dis.pa.ʁe.sɔ̃/	disparaissez /dis.pa.ʁɛ.se/ or /dis.pa.ʁe.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).

Related terms

• disparition
• paraître

Further reading

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