frire

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French frire, from Latin frīgere, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fʁiʁ/

• frire

  (file)

Verb

frire (defective)

1. (defective) to fry (cook in hot fat)

Conjugation

This verb is defective and it is not conjugated in certain tenses and plural persons. Using faire frire is recommended. This verb is impersonal and is conjugated only in the third-person singular.

Conjugation of frire (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	frire
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	frisant /fʁi.zɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		frit /fʁi/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	—	—	frit /fʁi/	—	—	—
	imperfect	—	—	frisait /fʁi.zɛ/	—	—	—
	past historic2	—	—	frit /fʁi/	—	—	—
	future	—	—	frira /fʁi.ʁa/	—	—	—
	conditional	—	—	frirait /fʁi.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	—	—	—	—	—	—
	imperfect2	—	—	—	—	—	—
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	—	—	—	—	—
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).

Derived terms

• poêle à frire

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• férir

Old French

Etymology

From Latin frīgere, present active infinitive of frīgō.

Verb

frire

1. to fry

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a third-group verb. This verb ends in a palatal stem, so there is an extra i before the e of some endings. This verb has irregularities in its conjugation. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

    Conjugation of frire (see also Appendix:Old French verbs)

		simple			compound
infinitive		frire			avoir frit
gerund		en frïant, frisant			Use the gerund of avoir followed by the past participle
present participle		frïant, frisant
past participle		frit
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		jo	tu	il	nos	vos	il
simple tenses	present	fris	fris	frit, frist	frisons	frisiez	frïent, frisent
	imperfect	frisoie, friseie	frisoies, friseies	frïoit, frïeit, frisoit, friseit	frisiiens, frisiens	frisiiez, frisiez	frisoient, friseient
	preterite	fris	freṣis	frist	freṣimes	freṣistes	frisdrent
	future	frirai	friras	frira	frirons	friroiz, frireiz, frirez	friront
	conditional	friroie, frireie	friroies, frireies	friroit, frireit	fririiens, fririens	fririiez, fririez	friroient, frireient
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 anterior	Use the preterite 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 jo	que tu	qu’il	que nos	que vos	qu’il
simple tenses	present	frise	frises	frise	frisiens, frisons	frisiez	frisent
	imperfect	freṣisse	freṣisses	freṣist	freṣissons, freṣissiens	freṣissoiz, freṣissez, freṣissiez	freṣissent
compound tenses	past	Use the present subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle
	pluperfect	Use the imperfect subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nos	vos	–
		—	fris	—	frisons	frisiez	—

Descendants

• French: frire
• → Middle English: fryen, frien, frye, fryyn
  • English: fry
  • Scots: fry