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expirer
expirer
French
Etymology
Borrowing from Latin exspīrāre, present active infinitive of exspīrō (“I expire”).
Pronunciation
Verb
expirer
- (transitive) To breathe out.
- (intransitive) to expire, run out
- (intransitive) to pass away (die)
Conjugation
Conjugation of expirer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | expirer | avoir expiré | |||||
| gerund | en expirant | en ayant expiré | |||||
| present participle | expirant /ɛk.spi.ʁɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | expiré /ɛk.spi.ʁe/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | expire /ɛk.spiʁ/ |
expires /ɛk.spiʁ/ |
expire /ɛk.spiʁ/ |
expirons /ɛk.spi.ʁɔ̃/ |
expirez /ɛk.spi.ʁe/ |
expirent /ɛk.spiʁ/ |
| imperfect | expirais /ɛk.spi.ʁɛ/ |
expirais /ɛk.spi.ʁɛ/ |
expirait /ɛk.spi.ʁɛ/ |
expirions /ɛk.spi.ʁjɔ̃/ |
expiriez /ɛk.spi.ʁje/ |
expiraient /ɛk.spi.ʁɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | expirai /ɛk.spi.ʁe/ |
expiras /ɛk.spi.ʁa/ |
expira /ɛk.spi.ʁa/ |
expirâmes /ɛk.spi.ʁam/ |
expirâtes /ɛk.spi.ʁat/ |
expirèrent /ɛk.spi.ʁɛʁ/ |
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| future | expirerai /ɛk.spi.ʁə.ʁe/ |
expireras /ɛk.spi.ʁə.ʁa/ |
expirera /ɛk.spi.ʁə.ʁa/ |
expirerons /ɛk.spi.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ |
expirerez /ɛk.spi.ʁə.ʁe/ |
expireront /ɛk.spi.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | expirerais /ɛk.spi.ʁə.ʁɛ/ |
expirerais /ɛk.spi.ʁə.ʁɛ/ |
expirerait /ɛk.spi.ʁə.ʁɛ/ |
expirerions /ɛk.spi.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
expireriez /ɛk.spi.ʁə.ʁje/ |
expireraient /ɛk.spi.ʁə.ʁɛ/ |
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| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior1 | Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | expire /ɛk.spiʁ/ |
expires /ɛk.spiʁ/ |
expire /ɛk.spiʁ/ |
expirions /ɛk.spi.ʁjɔ̃/ |
expiriez /ɛk.spi.ʁje/ |
expirent /ɛk.spiʁ/ |
| imperfect1 |
expirasse /ɛk.spi.ʁas/ |
expirasses /ɛk.spi.ʁas/ |
expirât /ɛk.spi.ʁa/ |
expirassions /ɛk.spi.ʁa.sjɔ̃/ |
expirassiez /ɛk.spi.ʁa.sje/ |
expirassent /ɛk.spi.ʁas/ |
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| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | expire /ɛk.spiʁ/ |
— | expirons /ɛk.spi.ʁɔ̃/ |
expirez /ɛk.spi.ʁe/ |
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| 1literary tenses | |||||||