hériter

See also: heriter

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French eriter, from alteration of an earlier *hereter, from Latin hērēditāre.

Pronunciation

• ^{(mute h)} IPA^(key): /e.ʁi.te/

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Verb

hériter

1. to inherit (to receive property or a title by legal succession etc.)

Conjugation

Conjugation of hériter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	hériter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	héritant /e.ʁi.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		hérité /e.ʁi.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	hérite /e.ʁit/	hérites /e.ʁit/	hérite /e.ʁit/	héritons /e.ʁi.tɔ̃/	héritez /e.ʁi.te/	héritent /e.ʁit/
	imperfect	héritais /e.ʁi.tɛ/	héritais /e.ʁi.tɛ/	héritait /e.ʁi.tɛ/	héritions /e.ʁi.tjɔ̃/	héritiez /e.ʁi.tje/	héritaient /e.ʁi.tɛ/
	past historic2	héritai /e.ʁi.te/	héritas /e.ʁi.ta/	hérita /e.ʁi.ta/	héritâmes /e.ʁi.tam/	héritâtes /e.ʁi.tat/	héritèrent /e.ʁi.tɛʁ/
	future	hériterai /e.ʁi.tʁe/	hériteras /e.ʁi.tʁa/	héritera /e.ʁi.tʁa/	hériterons /e.ʁi.tʁɔ̃/	hériterez /e.ʁi.tʁe/	hériteront /e.ʁi.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	hériterais /e.ʁi.tʁɛ/	hériterais /e.ʁi.tʁɛ/	hériterait /e.ʁi.tʁɛ/	hériterions /e.ʁi.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	hériteriez /e.ʁi.tə.ʁje/	hériteraient /e.ʁi.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	hérite /e.ʁit/	hérites /e.ʁit/	hérite /e.ʁit/	héritions /e.ʁi.tjɔ̃/	héritiez /e.ʁi.tje/	héritent /e.ʁit/
	imperfect2	héritasse /e.ʁi.tas/	héritasses /e.ʁi.tas/	héritât /e.ʁi.ta/	héritassions /e.ʁi.ta.sjɔ̃/	héritassiez /e.ʁi.ta.sje/	héritassent /e.ʁi.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	hérite /e.ʁit/	—	héritons /e.ʁi.tɔ̃/	héritez /e.ʁi.te/	—
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

• code hérité
• déshériter

Related terms

• héritage
• héritier
• hoir

Descendants

• Haitian Creole: erite

Further reading

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