jaunir
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ʒo.niʁ/
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Verb
[edit]jaunir
- (intransitive) to go yellow, to turn yellow
- (of bananas) to ripen
- (transitive) to make yellow
Conjugation
[edit]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 jaunir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | jaunir | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | jaunissant /ʒo.ni.sɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | jauni /ʒo.ni/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | jaunis /ʒo.ni/ |
jaunis /ʒo.ni/ |
jaunit /ʒo.ni/ |
jaunissons /ʒo.ni.sɔ̃/ |
jaunissez /ʒo.ni.se/ |
jaunissent /ʒo.nis/ |
| imperfect | jaunissais /ʒo.ni.sɛ/ |
jaunissais /ʒo.ni.sɛ/ |
jaunissait /ʒo.ni.sɛ/ |
jaunissions /ʒo.ni.sjɔ̃/ |
jaunissiez /ʒo.ni.sje/ |
jaunissaient /ʒo.ni.sɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | jaunis /ʒo.ni/ |
jaunis /ʒo.ni/ |
jaunit /ʒo.ni/ |
jaunîmes /ʒo.nim/ |
jaunîtes /ʒo.nit/ |
jaunirent /ʒo.niʁ/ | |
| future | jaunirai /ʒo.ni.ʁe/ |
jauniras /ʒo.ni.ʁa/ |
jaunira /ʒo.ni.ʁa/ |
jaunirons /ʒo.ni.ʁɔ̃/ |
jaunirez /ʒo.ni.ʁe/ |
jauniront /ʒo.ni.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | jaunirais /ʒo.ni.ʁɛ/ |
jaunirais /ʒo.ni.ʁɛ/ |
jaunirait /ʒo.ni.ʁɛ/ |
jaunirions /ʒo.ni.ʁjɔ̃/ |
jauniriez /ʒo.ni.ʁje/ |
jauniraient /ʒo.ni.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 | jaunisse /ʒo.nis/ |
jaunisses /ʒo.nis/ |
jaunisse /ʒo.nis/ |
jaunissions /ʒo.ni.sjɔ̃/ |
jaunissiez /ʒo.ni.sje/ |
jaunissent /ʒo.nis/ |
| imperfect2 | jaunisse /ʒo.nis/ |
jaunisses /ʒo.nis/ |
jaunît /ʒo.ni/ |
jaunissions /ʒo.ni.sjɔ̃/ |
jaunissiez /ʒo.ni.sje/ |
jaunissent /ʒo.nis/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | jaunis /ʒo.ni/ |
— | jaunissons /ʒo.ni.sɔ̃/ |
jaunissez /ʒo.ni.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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “jaunir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012