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nourrir
nourrir
French
Verb
nourrir
- to feed (provide with nourishment), nourish
- to nurture, to fuel
- (takes a reflexive pronoun) to eat, to feed oneself
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 nourrir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | nourrir | avoir nourri | |||||
| gerund | en nourrissant | en ayant nourri | |||||
| present participle | nourrissant /nu.ʁi.sɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | nourri /nu.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 | nourris /nu.ʁi/ |
nourris /nu.ʁi/ |
nourrit /nu.ʁi/ |
nourrissons /nu.ʁi.sɔ̃/ |
nourrissez /nu.ʁi.se/ |
nourrissent /nu.ʁis/ |
| imperfect | nourrissais /nu.ʁi.sɛ/ |
nourrissais /nu.ʁi.sɛ/ |
nourrissait /nu.ʁi.sɛ/ |
nourrissions /nu.ʁi.sjɔ̃/ |
nourrissiez /nu.ʁi.sje/ |
nourrissaient /nu.ʁi.sɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | nourris /nu.ʁi/ |
nourris /nu.ʁi/ |
nourrit /nu.ʁi/ |
nourrîmes /nu.ʁim/ |
nourrîtes /nu.ʁit/ |
nourrirent /nu.ʁiʁ/ |
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| future | nourrirai /nu.ʁi.ʁe/ |
nourriras /nu.ʁi.ʁa/ |
nourrira /nu.ʁi.ʁa/ |
nourrirons /nu.ʁi.ʁɔ̃/ |
nourrirez /nu.ʁi.ʁe/ |
nourriront /nu.ʁi.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | nourrirais /nu.ʁi.ʁɛ/ |
nourrirais /nu.ʁi.ʁɛ/ |
nourrirait /nu.ʁi.ʁɛ/ |
nourririons /nu.ʁi.ʁjɔ̃/ |
nourririez /nu.ʁi.ʁje/ |
nourriraient /nu.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 | nourrisse /nu.ʁis/ |
nourrisses /nu.ʁis/ |
nourrisse /nu.ʁis/ |
nourrissions /nu.ʁi.sjɔ̃/ |
nourrissiez /nu.ʁi.sje/ |
nourrissent /nu.ʁis/ |
| imperfect1 |
nourrisse /nu.ʁis/ |
nourrisses /nu.ʁis/ |
nourrît /nu.ʁi/ |
nourrissions /nu.ʁi.sjɔ̃/ |
nourrissiez /nu.ʁi.sje/ |
nourrissent /nu.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 | – | |
| — | nourris /nu.ʁi/ |
— | nourrissons /nu.ʁi.sɔ̃/ |
nourrissez /nu.ʁi.se/ |
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