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noircir
noircir
French
Verb
noircir
- to blacken (make black)
- (reflexive) to get drunk
- 1926, Marcel Aymé, Brûlebois, Éditions Gallimard, chap. III, 1975 ed., p. 33
- — Mais enfin, disait-il, pourquoi que tu te noircis comme ça? / — Sûrement que j'ai pas raison, répondait l'autre, quoique, dans un sens, ça soit pas mauvais de boire.
- 1926, Marcel Aymé, Brûlebois, Éditions Gallimard, chap. III, 1975 ed., p. 33
Synonyms
- [2] (get drunk): See s'enivrer
Related terms
- [1,2]: noir
Derived terms
- noircir le tableau, noircissement, noircissure
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 noircir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | noircir | avoir noirci | |||||
| gerund | en noircissant | en ayant noirci | |||||
| present participle | noircissant /nwaʁ.si.sɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | noirci /nwaʁ.si/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | noircis /nwaʁ.si/ |
noircis /nwaʁ.si/ |
noircit /nwaʁ.si/ |
noircissons /nwaʁ.si.sɔ̃/ |
noircissez /nwaʁ.si.se/ |
noircissent /nwaʁ.sis/ |
| imperfect | noircissais /nwaʁ.si.sɛ/ |
noircissais /nwaʁ.si.sɛ/ |
noircissait /nwaʁ.si.sɛ/ |
noircissions /nwaʁ.si.sjɔ̃/ |
noircissiez /nwaʁ.si.sje/ |
noircissaient /nwaʁ.si.sɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | noircis /nwaʁ.si/ |
noircis /nwaʁ.si/ |
noircit /nwaʁ.si/ |
noircîmes /nwaʁ.sim/ |
noircîtes /nwaʁ.sit/ |
noircirent /nwaʁ.siʁ/ |
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| future | noircirai /nwaʁ.si.ʁe/ |
noirciras /nwaʁ.si.ʁa/ |
noircira /nwaʁ.si.ʁa/ |
noircirons /nwaʁ.si.ʁɔ̃/ |
noircirez /nwaʁ.si.ʁe/ |
noirciront /nwaʁ.si.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | noircirais /nwaʁ.si.ʁɛ/ |
noircirais /nwaʁ.si.ʁɛ/ |
noircirait /nwaʁ.si.ʁɛ/ |
noircirions /nwaʁ.si.ʁjɔ̃/ |
noirciriez /nwaʁ.si.ʁje/ |
noirciraient /nwaʁ.si.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 | noircisse /nwaʁ.sis/ |
noircisses /nwaʁ.sis/ |
noircisse /nwaʁ.sis/ |
noircissions /nwaʁ.si.sjɔ̃/ |
noircissiez /nwaʁ.si.sje/ |
noircissent /nwaʁ.sis/ |
| imperfect1 |
noircisse /nwaʁ.sis/ |
noircisses /nwaʁ.sis/ |
noircît /nwaʁ.si/ |
noircissions /nwaʁ.si.sjɔ̃/ |
noircissiez /nwaʁ.si.sje/ |
noircissent /nwaʁ.sis/ |
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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 | – | |
| — | noircis /nwaʁ.si/ |
— | noircissons /nwaʁ.si.sɔ̃/ |
noircissez /nwaʁ.si.se/ |
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References
- “noircir” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Old French
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *nigricīre, from Latin nigrēscō, nigrēscere. Compare Old Provençal negrezir.
Verb
noircir
- to blacken (become black)
Descendants
- French: noircir