apparaître

See also: apparaitre

French

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle French apparoistre, from Old French aparoistre, from Late Latin appārēscere, present active infinitive of appārēscō (“begin to appear”), from Latin appareō.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /a.pa.ʁɛtʁ/
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Verb

apparaître

  1. to appear (become visible)
    Dans la nuit, il vit un spectre apparaître.
  2. (video games) to spawn

Usage notes
  • The auxiliary avoir can also be used, indicating action rather than state. However, in common usage, être tends to replace avoir for all senses.

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 apparaître (see also Appendix:French verbs)
present participle apparaissant
/a.pa.ʁɛ.sɑ̃/
past participle apparu
/a.pa.ʁy/
infinitive
simple apparaître
compound être + past participle
gerund1
simple apparaissant
/a.pa.ʁɛ.sɑ̃/
compound étant + past participle
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses)		 present apparais
/a.pa.ʁɛ/		 apparais
/a.pa.ʁɛ/		 apparaît
/a.pa.ʁɛ/		 apparaissons
/a.pa.ʁɛ.sɔ̃/		 apparaissez
/a.pa.ʁɛ.se/		 apparaissent
/a.pa.ʁɛs/
imperfect apparaissais
/a.pa.ʁɛ.sɛ/		 apparaissais
/a.pa.ʁɛ.sɛ/		 apparaissait
/a.pa.ʁɛ.sɛ/		 apparaissions
/a.pa.ʁɛ.sjɔ̃/		 apparaissiez
/a.pa.ʁɛ.sje/		 apparaissaient
/a.pa.ʁɛ.sɛ/
past historic2 apparus
/a.pa.ʁy/		 apparus
/a.pa.ʁy/		 apparut
/a.pa.ʁy/		 apparûmes
/a.pa.ʁym/		 apparûtes
/a.pa.ʁyt/		 apparurent
/a.pa.ʁyʁ/
future apparaîtrai
/a.pa.ʁɛ.tʁe/		 apparaîtras
/a.pa.ʁɛ.tʁa/		 apparaîtra
/a.pa.ʁɛ.tʁa/		 apparaîtrons
/a.pa.ʁɛ.tʁɔ̃/		 apparaîtrez
/a.pa.ʁɛ.tʁe/		 apparaîtront
/a.pa.ʁɛ.tʁɔ̃/
conditional apparaîtrais
/a.pa.ʁɛ.tʁɛ/		 apparaîtrais
/a.pa.ʁɛ.tʁɛ/		 apparaîtrait
/a.pa.ʁɛ.tʁɛ/		 apparaîtrions
/a.pa.ʁɛ.tʁi.jɔ̃/		 apparaîtriez
/a.pa.ʁɛ.tʁi.je/		 apparaîtraient
/a.pa.ʁɛ.tʁɛ/
(compound
tenses)		 present perfect present indicative of être + past participle
pluperfect imperfect indicative of être + past participle
past anterior2 past historic of être + past participle
future perfect future of être + past participle
conditional perfect conditional of être + past participle
subjunctive que je (j’) que tu qu’il, qu’elle que nous que vous qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple
tenses)		 present apparaisse
/a.pa.ʁɛs/		 apparaisses
/a.pa.ʁɛs/		 apparaisse
/a.pa.ʁɛs/		 apparaissions
/a.pa.ʁɛ.sjɔ̃/		 apparaissiez
/a.pa.ʁɛ.sje/		 apparaissent
/a.pa.ʁɛs/
imperfect2 apparusse
/a.pa.ʁys/		 apparusses
/a.pa.ʁys/		 apparût
/a.pa.ʁy/		 apparussions
/a.pa.ʁy.sjɔ̃/		 apparussiez
/a.pa.ʁy.sje/		 apparussent
/a.pa.ʁys/
(compound
tenses)		 past present subjunctive of être + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of être + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — apparais
/a.pa.ʁɛ/		 — apparaissons
/a.pa.ʁɛ.sɔ̃/		 apparaissez
/a.pa.ʁɛ.se/		 —
compound — simple imperative of être + past participle — simple imperative of être + past participle simple imperative of être + past participle —
1 Only usable with preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

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