paraître

See also: paraitre

French

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old French paroistre, from Vulgar Latin *parescere, from Latin pārēre, present active infinitive of pāreō, from Proto-Italic *pāzēō, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂-s- (“watch, see”), s-present of *peh₂- (“protect”). Compare Occitan paréisser, Catalan parèixer, Spanish and Portuguese parecer.

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

paraître

  1. to appear (become visible)
    L'acteur parut sur l'écran. ― The actor appeared on screen.
  2. (usually in passive) to be published
    Ce texte est paru il y a longtemps. ― This text was published long ago.
  3. to appear, to seem
    Il paraît avoir 40 ans. ― He seems forty (years old).

Usage notes
  • In the sense of to be published, this verb can take the verb être as the auxiliary.[1]

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 paraître (see also Appendix:French verbs)
present participle paraissant
/pa.ʁɛ.sɑ̃/
past participle paru
/pa.ʁy/
infinitive
simple paraître
compound avoir or être + past participle
gerund1
simple paraissant
/pa.ʁɛ.sɑ̃/
compound ayant or étant + past participle
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses)		 present parais
/pa.ʁɛ/		 parais
/pa.ʁɛ/		 paraît
/pa.ʁɛ/		 paraissons
/pa.ʁɛ.sɔ̃/		 paraissez
/pa.ʁɛ.se/		 paraissent
/pa.ʁɛs/
imperfect paraissais
/pa.ʁɛ.sɛ/		 paraissais
/pa.ʁɛ.sɛ/		 paraissait
/pa.ʁɛ.sɛ/		 paraissions
/pa.ʁɛ.sjɔ̃/		 paraissiez
/pa.ʁɛ.sje/		 paraissaient
/pa.ʁɛ.sɛ/
past historic2 parus
/pa.ʁy/		 parus
/pa.ʁy/		 parut
/pa.ʁy/		 parûmes
/pa.ʁym/		 parûtes
/pa.ʁyt/		 parurent
/pa.ʁyʁ/
future paraîtrai
/pa.ʁɛ.tʁe/		 paraîtras
/pa.ʁɛ.tʁa/		 paraîtra
/pa.ʁɛ.tʁa/		 paraîtrons
/pa.ʁɛ.tʁɔ̃/		 paraîtrez
/pa.ʁɛ.tʁe/		 paraîtront
/pa.ʁɛ.tʁɔ̃/
conditional paraîtrais
/pa.ʁɛ.tʁɛ/		 paraîtrais
/pa.ʁɛ.tʁɛ/		 paraîtrait
/pa.ʁɛ.tʁɛ/		 paraîtrions
/pa.ʁɛ.tʁi.jɔ̃/		 paraîtriez
/pa.ʁɛ.tʁi.je/		 paraîtraient
/pa.ʁɛ.tʁɛ/
(compound
tenses)		 present perfect present indicative of avoir or être + past participle
pluperfect imperfect indicative of avoir or être + past participle
past anterior2 past historic of avoir or être + past participle
future perfect future of avoir or être + past participle
conditional perfect conditional of avoir or être + past participle
subjunctive que je (j’) que tu qu’il, qu’elle que nous que vous qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple
tenses)		 present paraisse
/pa.ʁɛs/		 paraisses
/pa.ʁɛs/		 paraisse
/pa.ʁɛs/		 paraissions
/pa.ʁɛ.sjɔ̃/		 paraissiez
/pa.ʁɛ.sje/		 paraissent
/pa.ʁɛs/
imperfect2 parusse
/pa.ʁys/		 parusses
/pa.ʁys/		 parût
/pa.ʁy/		 parussions
/pa.ʁy.sjɔ̃/		 parussiez
/pa.ʁy.sje/		 parussent
/pa.ʁys/
(compound
tenses)		 past present subjunctive of avoir or être + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir or être + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — parais
/pa.ʁɛ/		 — paraissons
/pa.ʁɛ.sɔ̃/		 paraissez
/pa.ʁɛ.se/		 —
compound — simple imperative of avoir or être + past participle — simple imperative of avoir or être + past participle simple imperative of avoir or 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).

Noun

paraître m (plural paraîtres)

  1. appearance

References
  1. “paraître” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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