flétrir
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fle.tʁiʁ/
Etymology 1
From Old French flaistre (“withered”), from Latin flaccidus.
Etymology 2
Alteration of Old French flatir (under influence of Etymology 1, above), probably from Frankish *flatjan (“move the palm of one's hand”).
Verb
flétrir
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 flétrir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| present participle | flétrissant /fle.tʁi.sɑ̃/ | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| past participle | flétri /fle.tʁi/ | ||||||
| infinitive | |||||||
| simple | flétrir | ||||||
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| gerund1 | |||||||
| simple | flétrissant /fle.tʁi.sɑ̃/ | ||||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | flétris /fle.tʁi/ |
flétris /fle.tʁi/ |
flétrit /fle.tʁi/ |
flétrissons /fle.tʁi.sɔ̃/ |
flétrissez /fle.tʁi.se/ |
flétrissent /fle.tʁis/ |
| imperfect | flétrissais /fle.tʁi.sɛ/ |
flétrissais /fle.tʁi.sɛ/ |
flétrissait /fle.tʁi.sɛ/ |
flétrissions /fle.tʁi.sjɔ̃/ |
flétrissiez /fle.tʁi.sje/ |
flétrissaient /fle.tʁi.sɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | flétris /fle.tʁi/ |
flétris /fle.tʁi/ |
flétrit /fle.tʁi/ |
flétrîmes /fle.tʁim/ |
flétrîtes /fle.tʁit/ |
flétrirent /fle.tʁiʁ/ | |
| future | flétrirai /fle.tʁi.ʁe/ |
flétriras /fle.tʁi.ʁa/ |
flétrira /fle.tʁi.ʁa/ |
flétrirons /fle.tʁi.ʁɔ̃/ |
flétrirez /fle.tʁi.ʁe/ |
flétriront /fle.tʁi.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | flétrirais /fle.tʁi.ʁɛ/ |
flétrirais /fle.tʁi.ʁɛ/ |
flétrirait /fle.tʁi.ʁɛ/ |
flétririons /fle.tʁi.ʁjɔ̃/ |
flétririez /fle.tʁi.ʁje/ |
flétriraient /fle.tʁi.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 | flétrisse /fle.tʁis/ |
flétrisses /fle.tʁis/ |
flétrisse /fle.tʁis/ |
flétrissions /fle.tʁi.sjɔ̃/ |
flétrissiez /fle.tʁi.sje/ |
flétrissent /fle.tʁis/ |
| imperfect2 | flétrisse /fle.tʁis/ |
flétrisses /fle.tʁis/ |
flétrît /fle.tʁi/ |
flétrissions /fle.tʁi.sjɔ̃/ |
flétrissiez /fle.tʁi.sje/ |
flétrissent /fle.tʁis/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | flétris /fle.tʁi/ |
— | flétrissons /fle.tʁi.sɔ̃/ |
flétrissez /fle.tʁi.se/ |
— | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + 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). | |||||||
Further reading
- “flétrir” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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