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fleurir
fleurir
French
Verb
fleurir
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 fleurir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | fleurir | avoir fleuri | |||||
| gerund | en fleurissant | en ayant fleuri | |||||
| present participle | fleurissant /flœ.ʁi.sɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | fleuri /flœ.ʁi/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | fleuris /flœ.ʁi/ |
fleuris /flœ.ʁi/ |
fleurit /flœ.ʁi/ |
fleurissons /flœ.ʁi.sɔ̃/ |
fleurissez /flœ.ʁi.se/ |
fleurissent /flœ.ʁis/ |
| imperfect | fleurissais /flœ.ʁi.sɛ/ |
fleurissais /flœ.ʁi.sɛ/ |
fleurissait /flœ.ʁi.sɛ/ |
fleurissions /flœ.ʁi.sjɔ̃/ |
fleurissiez /flœ.ʁi.sje/ |
fleurissaient /flœ.ʁi.sɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | fleuris /flœ.ʁi/ |
fleuris /flœ.ʁi/ |
fleurit /flœ.ʁi/ |
fleurîmes /flœ.ʁim/ |
fleurîtes /flœ.ʁit/ |
fleurirent /flœ.ʁiʁ/ |
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| future | fleurirai /flœ.ʁi.ʁe/ |
fleuriras /flœ.ʁi.ʁa/ |
fleurira /flœ.ʁi.ʁa/ |
fleurirons /flœ.ʁi.ʁɔ̃/ |
fleurirez /flœ.ʁi.ʁe/ |
fleuriront /flœ.ʁi.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | fleurirais /flœ.ʁi.ʁɛ/ |
fleurirais /flœ.ʁi.ʁɛ/ |
fleurirait /flœ.ʁi.ʁɛ/ |
fleuririons /flœ.ʁi.ʁjɔ̃/ |
fleuririez /flœ.ʁi.ʁje/ |
fleuriraient /flœ.ʁi.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 | fleurisse /flœ.ʁis/ |
fleurisses /flœ.ʁis/ |
fleurisse /flœ.ʁis/ |
fleurissions /flœ.ʁi.sjɔ̃/ |
fleurissiez /flœ.ʁi.sje/ |
fleurissent /flœ.ʁis/ |
| imperfect1 |
fleurisse /flœ.ʁis/ |
fleurisses /flœ.ʁis/ |
fleurît /flœ.ʁi/ |
fleurissions /flœ.ʁi.sjɔ̃/ |
fleurissiez /flœ.ʁi.sje/ |
fleurissent /flœ.ʁis/ |
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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 | – | |
| — | fleuris /flœ.ʁi/ |
— | fleurissons /flœ.ʁi.sɔ̃/ |
fleurissez /flœ.ʁi.se/ |
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