fleurir

French

Etymology

From Old French florir, from Vulgar Latin *florīre, (with conjugation influenced by Latin flōrēscere, present active infinitive of flōrēscō), from flōreō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /flœ.ʁiʁ/

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Verb

fleurir

1. to flower; to produce flowers
2. to bloom
3. to flourish

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 fleurir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

		simple			compound
infinitive		fleurir			avoir fleuri
gerund		en fleurissant			en ayant fleuri
present participle		fleurissant /flœ.ʁi.sɑ̃/
past participle		fleuri /flœ.ʁi/
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il	nous	vous	ils
simple tenses	present	fleuris /flœ.ʁi/	fleuris /flœ.ʁi/	fleurit /flœ.ʁi/	fleurissons /flœ.ʁi.sɔ̃/	fleurissez /flœ.ʁi.se/	fleurissent /flœ.ʁis/
	imperfect	fleurissais /flœ.ʁi.sɛ/	fleurissais /flœ.ʁi.sɛ/	fleurissait /flœ.ʁi.sɛ/	fleurissions /flœ.ʁi.sjɔ̃/	fleurissiez /flœ.ʁi.sje/	fleurissaient /flœ.ʁi.sɛ/
	past historic1	fleuris /flœ.ʁi/	fleuris /flœ.ʁi/	fleurit /flœ.ʁi/	fleurîmes /flœ.ʁim/	fleurîtes /flœ.ʁit/	fleurirent /flœ.ʁiʁ/
	future	fleurirai /flœ.ʁi.ʁe/	fleuriras /flœ.ʁi.ʁa/	fleurira /flœ.ʁi.ʁa/	fleurirons /flœ.ʁi.ʁɔ̃/	fleurirez /flœ.ʁi.ʁe/	fleuriront /flœ.ʁi.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	fleurirais /flœ.ʁi.ʁɛ/	fleurirais /flœ.ʁi.ʁɛ/	fleurirait /flœ.ʁi.ʁɛ/	fleuririons /flœ.ʁi.ʁjɔ̃/	fleuririez /flœ.ʁi.ʁje/	fleuriraient /flœ.ʁi.ʁɛ/
compound tenses	present perfect	Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	pluperfect	Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	past anterior1	Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	future perfect	Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	conditional perfect	Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il	que nous	que vous	qu’ils
simple tenses	present	fleurisse /flœ.ʁis/	fleurisses /flœ.ʁis/	fleurisse /flœ.ʁis/	fleurissions /flœ.ʁi.sjɔ̃/	fleurissiez /flœ.ʁi.sje/	fleurissent /flœ.ʁis/
	imperfect1	fleurisse /flœ.ʁis/	fleurisses /flœ.ʁis/	fleurît /flœ.ʁi/	fleurissions /flœ.ʁi.sjɔ̃/	fleurissiez /flœ.ʁi.sje/	fleurissent /flœ.ʁis/
compound tenses	past	Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	pluperfect1	Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
		—	fleuris /flœ.ʁi/	—	fleurissons /flœ.ʁi.sɔ̃/	fleurissez /flœ.ʁi.se/	—
1literary tenses

Further reading

• “fleurir” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).