expirer

English

Etymology

From expire +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -aɪəɹə(ɹ)

Noun

expirer (plural expirers)

1. One who or that which expires.

French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin exspīrāre (“to expire”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛk.spi.ʁe/

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Verb

expirer

1. (transitive) to breathe out

   Coordinate term: inspirer

2. (intransitive) to draw one's last breath, to pass away

   Synonym: rendre son dernier souffle

3. (intransitive) to expire, to run out

   Near-synonym: périmer

Conjugation

Conjugation of expirer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	expirer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	expirant /ɛk.spi.ʁɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		expiré /ɛk.spi.ʁe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	expire /ɛk.spiʁ/	expires /ɛk.spiʁ/	expire /ɛk.spiʁ/	expirons /ɛk.spi.ʁɔ̃/	expirez /ɛk.spi.ʁe/	expirent /ɛk.spiʁ/
	imperfect	expirais /ɛk.spi.ʁɛ/	expirais /ɛk.spi.ʁɛ/	expirait /ɛk.spi.ʁɛ/	expirions /ɛk.spi.ʁjɔ̃/	expiriez /ɛk.spi.ʁje/	expiraient /ɛk.spi.ʁɛ/
	past historic2	expirai /ɛk.spi.ʁe/	expiras /ɛk.spi.ʁa/	expira /ɛk.spi.ʁa/	expirâmes /ɛk.spi.ʁam/	expirâtes /ɛk.spi.ʁat/	expirèrent /ɛk.spi.ʁɛʁ/
	future	expirerai /ɛk.spi.ʁə.ʁe/	expireras /ɛk.spi.ʁə.ʁa/	expirera /ɛk.spi.ʁə.ʁa/	expirerons /ɛk.spi.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/	expirerez /ɛk.spi.ʁə.ʁe/	expireront /ɛk.spi.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	expirerais /ɛk.spi.ʁə.ʁɛ/	expirerais /ɛk.spi.ʁə.ʁɛ/	expirerait /ɛk.spi.ʁə.ʁɛ/	expirerions /ɛk.spi.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/	expireriez /ɛk.spi.ʁə.ʁje/	expireraient /ɛk.spi.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	expire /ɛk.spiʁ/	expires /ɛk.spiʁ/	expire /ɛk.spiʁ/	expirions /ɛk.spi.ʁjɔ̃/	expiriez /ɛk.spi.ʁje/	expirent /ɛk.spiʁ/
	imperfect2	expirasse /ɛk.spi.ʁas/	expirasses /ɛk.spi.ʁas/	expirât /ɛk.spi.ʁa/	expirassions /ɛk.spi.ʁa.sjɔ̃/	expirassiez /ɛk.spi.ʁa.sje/	expirassent /ɛk.spi.ʁas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	expire /ɛk.spiʁ/	—	expirons /ɛk.spi.ʁɔ̃/	expirez /ɛk.spi.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).

Related terms

• expiration

Further reading

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

Latin

Verb

expīrer

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of expīrō