transparaître

See also: transparaitre

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁɛtʁ/

Verb

transparaître

1. to show through (of light etc.)
2. to become apparent, to show

Conjugation

This verb is one of a fairly small group of -re verbs, that are all conjugated the same way. They are unlike other verb groups in that the 'i' is given a circumflex before a 't'.

Conjugation of transparaître (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	transparaître
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	transparaissant /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁɛ.sɑ̃/ or /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁe.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		transparu /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁy/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	transparais /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁɛ/	transparais /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁɛ/	transparaît /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁɛ/	transparaissons /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁɛ.sɔ̃/ or /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁe.sɔ̃/	transparaissez /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁɛ.se/ or /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁe.se/	transparaissent /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁɛs/
	imperfect	transparaissais /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁɛ.sɛ/ or /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁe.sɛ/	transparaissais /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁɛ.sɛ/ or /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁe.sɛ/	transparaissait /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁɛ.sɛ/ or /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁe.sɛ/	transparaissions /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁɛ.sjɔ̃/ or /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁe.sjɔ̃/	transparaissiez /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁɛ.sje/ or /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁe.sje/	transparaissaient /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁɛ.sɛ/ or /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁe.sɛ/
	past historic2	transparus /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁy/	transparus /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁy/	transparut /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁy/	transparûmes /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁym/	transparûtes /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁyt/	transparurent /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁyʁ/
	future	transparaîtrai /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁɛ.tʁe/ or /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁe.tʁe/	transparaîtras /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁɛ.tʁa/ or /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁe.tʁa/	transparaîtra /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁɛ.tʁa/ or /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁe.tʁa/	transparaîtrons /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁe.tʁɔ̃/	transparaîtrez /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁɛ.tʁe/ or /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁe.tʁe/	transparaîtront /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁe.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	transparaîtrais /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁɛ.tʁɛ/ or /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁe.tʁɛ/	transparaîtrais /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁɛ.tʁɛ/ or /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁe.tʁɛ/	transparaîtrait /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁɛ.tʁɛ/ or /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁe.tʁɛ/	transparaîtrions /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁɛ.tʁi.jɔ̃/ or /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁe.tʁi.jɔ̃/	transparaîtriez /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁɛ.tʁi.je/ or /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁe.tʁi.je/	transparaîtraient /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁɛ.tʁɛ/ or /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁe.tʁɛ/
(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	transparaisse /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁɛs/	transparaisses /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁɛs/	transparaisse /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁɛs/	transparaissions /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁɛ.sjɔ̃/ or /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁe.sjɔ̃/	transparaissiez /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁɛ.sje/ or /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁe.sje/	transparaissent /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁɛs/
	imperfect2	transparusse /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁys/	transparusses /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁys/	transparût /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁy/	transparussions /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁy.sjɔ̃/	transparussiez /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁy.sje/	transparussent /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁys/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	transparais /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁɛ/	—	transparaissons /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁɛ.sɔ̃/ or /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁe.sɔ̃/	transparaissez /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁɛ.se/ or /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁe.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).

Further reading

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