parapher

French

Alternative forms

• parafer

Etymology

From paraphe +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa.ʁa.fe/

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Verb

parapher

1. (transitive) to sign or initial a document

Conjugation

Conjugation of parapher (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	parapher
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	paraphant /pa.ʁa.fɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		paraphé /pa.ʁa.fe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	paraphe /pa.ʁaf/	paraphes /pa.ʁaf/	paraphe /pa.ʁaf/	paraphons /pa.ʁa.fɔ̃/	paraphez /pa.ʁa.fe/	paraphent /pa.ʁaf/
	imperfect	paraphais /pa.ʁa.fɛ/	paraphais /pa.ʁa.fɛ/	paraphait /pa.ʁa.fɛ/	paraphions /pa.ʁa.fjɔ̃/	paraphiez /pa.ʁa.fje/	paraphaient /pa.ʁa.fɛ/
	past historic2	paraphai /pa.ʁa.fe/	paraphas /pa.ʁa.fa/	parapha /pa.ʁa.fa/	paraphâmes /pa.ʁa.fam/	paraphâtes /pa.ʁa.fat/	paraphèrent /pa.ʁa.fɛʁ/
	future	parapherai /pa.ʁa.fʁe/	parapheras /pa.ʁa.fʁa/	paraphera /pa.ʁa.fʁa/	parapherons /pa.ʁa.fʁɔ̃/	parapherez /pa.ʁa.fʁe/	parapheront /pa.ʁa.fʁɔ̃/
	conditional	parapherais /pa.ʁa.fʁɛ/	parapherais /pa.ʁa.fʁɛ/	parapherait /pa.ʁa.fʁɛ/	parapherions /pa.ʁa.fə.ʁjɔ̃/	parapheriez /pa.ʁa.fə.ʁje/	parapheraient /pa.ʁa.fʁɛ/
(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	paraphe /pa.ʁaf/	paraphes /pa.ʁaf/	paraphe /pa.ʁaf/	paraphions /pa.ʁa.fjɔ̃/	paraphiez /pa.ʁa.fje/	paraphent /pa.ʁaf/
	imperfect2	paraphasse /pa.ʁa.fas/	paraphasses /pa.ʁa.fas/	paraphât /pa.ʁa.fa/	paraphassions /pa.ʁa.fa.sjɔ̃/	paraphassiez /pa.ʁa.fa.sje/	paraphassent /pa.ʁa.fas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	paraphe /pa.ʁaf/	—	paraphons /pa.ʁa.fɔ̃/	paraphez /pa.ʁa.fe/	—
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

• parapheur

Further reading

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