périr

See also: perir

French

Etymology

From Middle French perir, from Old French perir, from Latin perīre, present active infinitive of pereō (with conjugation influenced by Vulgar Latin *perescō).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pe.ʁiʁ/

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Verb

périr

1. (formal) to perish

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 périr (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	périr
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	périssant /pe.ʁi.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		péri /pe.ʁi/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	péris /pe.ʁi/	péris /pe.ʁi/	périt /pe.ʁi/	périssons /pe.ʁi.sɔ̃/	périssez /pe.ʁi.se/	périssent /pe.ʁis/
	imperfect	périssais /pe.ʁi.sɛ/	périssais /pe.ʁi.sɛ/	périssait /pe.ʁi.sɛ/	périssions /pe.ʁi.sjɔ̃/	périssiez /pe.ʁi.sje/	périssaient /pe.ʁi.sɛ/
	past historic2	péris /pe.ʁi/	péris /pe.ʁi/	périt /pe.ʁi/	pérîmes /pe.ʁim/	pérîtes /pe.ʁit/	périrent /pe.ʁiʁ/
	future	périrai /pe.ʁi.ʁe/	périras /pe.ʁi.ʁa/	périra /pe.ʁi.ʁa/	périrons /pe.ʁi.ʁɔ̃/	périrez /pe.ʁi.ʁe/	périront /pe.ʁi.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	périrais /pe.ʁi.ʁɛ/	périrais /pe.ʁi.ʁɛ/	périrait /pe.ʁi.ʁɛ/	péririons /pe.ʁi.ʁjɔ̃/	péririez /pe.ʁi.ʁje/	périraient /pe.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	périsse /pe.ʁis/	périsses /pe.ʁis/	périsse /pe.ʁis/	périssions /pe.ʁi.sjɔ̃/	périssiez /pe.ʁi.sje/	périssent /pe.ʁis/
	imperfect2	périsse /pe.ʁis/	périsses /pe.ʁis/	pérît /pe.ʁi/	périssions /pe.ʁi.sjɔ̃/	périssiez /pe.ʁi.sje/	périssent /pe.ʁis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	péris /pe.ʁi/	—	périssons /pe.ʁi.sɔ̃/	périssez /pe.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).

Derived terms

• périssable
• périssement

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• prier, riper