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paraître
paraître
See also: paraitre
French
Alternative forms
Verb
paraître
- to appear (become visible)
- L'acteur parut sur l'écran. ― The actor appeared on screen.
- to be published
- Ce texte est paru il y a longtemps. ― This text was published long ago.
- to appear, to seem
- Il paraît avoir 40 ans. ― He seems forty (years old).
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)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | paraître | avoir or être paru | |||||
| gerund | en paraissant | en ayant or en étant paru | |||||
| present participle | paraissant /pa.ʁɛ.sɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | paru /pa.ʁy/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| 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/ |
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| past historic1 | parus /pa.ʁy/ |
parus /pa.ʁy/ |
parut /pa.ʁy/ |
parûmes /pa.ʁym/ |
parûtes /pa.ʁyt/ |
parurent /pa.ʁyʁ/ |
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| 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/ |
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| 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/ |
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| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir or être followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir or être followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior1 | Use the past historic tense of avoir or être followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir or être followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir or être followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | paraisse /pa.ʁɛs/ |
paraisses /pa.ʁɛs/ |
paraisse /pa.ʁɛs/ |
paraissions /pa.ʁɛ.sjɔ̃/ |
paraissiez /pa.ʁɛ.sje/ |
paraissent /pa.ʁɛs/ |
| imperfect1 |
parusse /pa.ʁys/ |
parusses /pa.ʁys/ |
parût /pa.ʁy/ |
parussions /pa.ʁy.sjɔ̃/ |
parussiez /pa.ʁy.sje/ |
parussent /pa.ʁys/ |
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| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir or être followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir or être followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | parais /pa.ʁɛ/ |
— | paraissons /pa.ʁɛ.sɔ̃/ |
paraissez /pa.ʁɛ.se/ |
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| 1literary tenses | |||||||
Usage notes
Related terms
Noun
paraître m (plural paraîtres)
Anagrams
References
- ↑ “paraître” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).