mûrir

See also: murir

French

Alternative forms

• murir (since the 1990 spelling reform)

Etymology

From Old French meürer with change of conjugation, from Latin maturo. Synchronically analysable as mûr (“mature”) +‎ -ir.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /my.ʁiʁ/

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Verb

mûrir

1. (intransitive, figuratively) to mature, to become mature
2. (intransitive) to ripen, to become ripe
3. (transitive) to mature, to cause to be mature

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 mûrir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	mûrir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	mûrissant /my.ʁi.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		mûri /my.ʁi/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	mûris /my.ʁi/	mûris /my.ʁi/	mûrit /my.ʁi/	mûrissons /my.ʁi.sɔ̃/	mûrissez /my.ʁi.se/	mûrissent /my.ʁis/
	imperfect	mûrissais /my.ʁi.sɛ/	mûrissais /my.ʁi.sɛ/	mûrissait /my.ʁi.sɛ/	mûrissions /my.ʁi.sjɔ̃/	mûrissiez /my.ʁi.sje/	mûrissaient /my.ʁi.sɛ/
	past historic2	mûris /my.ʁi/	mûris /my.ʁi/	mûrit /my.ʁi/	mûrîmes /my.ʁim/	mûrîtes /my.ʁit/	mûrirent /my.ʁiʁ/
	future	mûrirai /my.ʁi.ʁe/	mûriras /my.ʁi.ʁa/	mûrira /my.ʁi.ʁa/	mûrirons /my.ʁi.ʁɔ̃/	mûrirez /my.ʁi.ʁe/	mûriront /my.ʁi.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	mûrirais /my.ʁi.ʁɛ/	mûrirais /my.ʁi.ʁɛ/	mûrirait /my.ʁi.ʁɛ/	mûririons /my.ʁi.ʁjɔ̃/	mûririez /my.ʁi.ʁje/	mûriraient /my.ʁi.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	mûrisse /my.ʁis/	mûrisses /my.ʁis/	mûrisse /my.ʁis/	mûrissions /my.ʁi.sjɔ̃/	mûrissiez /my.ʁi.sje/	mûrissent /my.ʁis/
	imperfect2	mûrisse /my.ʁis/	mûrisses /my.ʁis/	mûrît /my.ʁi/	mûrissions /my.ʁi.sjɔ̃/	mûrissiez /my.ʁi.sje/	mûrissent /my.ʁis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	mûris /my.ʁi/	—	mûrissons /my.ʁi.sɔ̃/	mûrissez /my.ʁi.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: 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

• mûrement
• mûrissage
• mûrissement
• mûrisserie

Further reading

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