tarir

French

Etymology

From Frankish *þarʀijan.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ta.ʁiʁ/

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Verb

tarir

1. (transitive) to dry up
2. (transitive) to exhaust, use up
3. (intransitive) to talk non-stop (about something)
4. (reflexive) to dwindle, to dry up, to peter out

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 tarir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	tarir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	tarissant /ta.ʁi.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		tari /ta.ʁi/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	taris /ta.ʁi/	taris /ta.ʁi/	tarit /ta.ʁi/	tarissons /ta.ʁi.sɔ̃/	tarissez /ta.ʁi.se/	tarissent /ta.ʁis/
	imperfect	tarissais /ta.ʁi.sɛ/	tarissais /ta.ʁi.sɛ/	tarissait /ta.ʁi.sɛ/	tarissions /ta.ʁi.sjɔ̃/	tarissiez /ta.ʁi.sje/	tarissaient /ta.ʁi.sɛ/
	past historic2	taris /ta.ʁi/	taris /ta.ʁi/	tarit /ta.ʁi/	tarîmes /ta.ʁim/	tarîtes /ta.ʁit/	tarirent /ta.ʁiʁ/
	future	tarirai /ta.ʁi.ʁe/	tariras /ta.ʁi.ʁa/	tarira /ta.ʁi.ʁa/	tarirons /ta.ʁi.ʁɔ̃/	tarirez /ta.ʁi.ʁe/	tariront /ta.ʁi.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	tarirais /ta.ʁi.ʁɛ/	tarirais /ta.ʁi.ʁɛ/	tarirait /ta.ʁi.ʁɛ/	taririons /ta.ʁi.ʁjɔ̃/	taririez /ta.ʁi.ʁje/	tariraient /ta.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	tarisse /ta.ʁis/	tarisses /ta.ʁis/	tarisse /ta.ʁis/	tarissions /ta.ʁi.sjɔ̃/	tarissiez /ta.ʁi.sje/	tarissent /ta.ʁis/
	imperfect2	tarisse /ta.ʁis/	tarisses /ta.ʁis/	tarît /ta.ʁi/	tarissions /ta.ʁi.sjɔ̃/	tarissiez /ta.ʁi.sje/	tarissent /ta.ʁis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	taris /ta.ʁi/	—	tarissons /ta.ʁi.sɔ̃/	tarissez /ta.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

• tarissement

Further reading

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