noircir

French

Etymology

From Old French, from Vulgar Latin *nigricīre, from Latin nigrēscō, nigrēscere.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nwaʁ.siʁ/

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Verb

noircir

1. to blacken (make black)
2. (reflexive) to get drunk
   • 1926, Marcel Aymé, Brûlebois, Éditions Gallimard, chap. III, 1975 ed., p. 33

     — Mais enfin, disait-il, pourquoi que tu te noircis comme ça? / — Sûrement que j'ai pas raison, répondait l'autre, quoique, dans un sens, ça soit pas mauvais de boire.

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 noircir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	noircir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	noircissant /nwaʁ.si.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		noirci /nwaʁ.si/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	noircis /nwaʁ.si/	noircis /nwaʁ.si/	noircit /nwaʁ.si/	noircissons /nwaʁ.si.sɔ̃/	noircissez /nwaʁ.si.se/	noircissent /nwaʁ.sis/
	imperfect	noircissais /nwaʁ.si.sɛ/	noircissais /nwaʁ.si.sɛ/	noircissait /nwaʁ.si.sɛ/	noircissions /nwaʁ.si.sjɔ̃/	noircissiez /nwaʁ.si.sje/	noircissaient /nwaʁ.si.sɛ/
	past historic2	noircis /nwaʁ.si/	noircis /nwaʁ.si/	noircit /nwaʁ.si/	noircîmes /nwaʁ.sim/	noircîtes /nwaʁ.sit/	noircirent /nwaʁ.siʁ/
	future	noircirai /nwaʁ.si.ʁe/	noirciras /nwaʁ.si.ʁa/	noircira /nwaʁ.si.ʁa/	noircirons /nwaʁ.si.ʁɔ̃/	noircirez /nwaʁ.si.ʁe/	noirciront /nwaʁ.si.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	noircirais /nwaʁ.si.ʁɛ/	noircirais /nwaʁ.si.ʁɛ/	noircirait /nwaʁ.si.ʁɛ/	noircirions /nwaʁ.si.ʁjɔ̃/	noirciriez /nwaʁ.si.ʁje/	noirciraient /nwaʁ.si.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	noircisse /nwaʁ.sis/	noircisses /nwaʁ.sis/	noircisse /nwaʁ.sis/	noircissions /nwaʁ.si.sjɔ̃/	noircissiez /nwaʁ.si.sje/	noircissent /nwaʁ.sis/
	imperfect2	noircisse /nwaʁ.sis/	noircisses /nwaʁ.sis/	noircît /nwaʁ.si/	noircissions /nwaʁ.si.sjɔ̃/	noircissiez /nwaʁ.si.sje/	noircissent /nwaʁ.sis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	noircis /nwaʁ.si/	—	noircissons /nwaʁ.si.sɔ̃/	noircissez /nwaʁ.si.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).

Synonyms

• [2] (get drunk): See s’enivrer

Derived terms

• noircir le tableau, noircissement, noircissure

Related terms

• [1,2]: noir

References

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

Further reading

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

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Old French

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *nigricīre, from Latin nigrēscō, nigrēscere. Compare Old Occitan negrezir.

Verb

noircir

1. to blacken (become black)

Descendants

• French: noircir