pleuvoir
French
Etymology
From Old French plovoir, pluveir, plover, from a Vulgar Latin *plovēre (or *plŏvĕre, later shifting conjugation types), from Classical Latin pluit, pluere.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /plø.vwaʁ/
-
audio (file) - Rhymes: -waʁ
Verb
pleuvoir (impersonal)
- to rain
- Il pleuvrait ce soir.
- It might rain tonight.
-
Conjugation
This is a defective verb, only conjugated in the third-person. The third-person plural forms are only used figuratively.
Conjugation of pleuvoir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | pleuvoir | avoir plu | |||||
| gerund | en pleuvant | en ayant plu | |||||
| present participle | pleuvant /plœ.vɑ̃/ | ||||||
| past participle | plu /ply/ | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | — | — | pleut /plø/ |
— | — | pleuvent /plœv/ |
| imperfect | — | — | pleuvait /plœ.vɛ/ |
— | — | pleuvaient /plœ.vɛ/ | |
| past historic1 | — | — | plut /ply/ |
— | — | plurent /plyʁ/ | |
| future | — | — | pleuvra /plœ.vʁa/ |
— | — | pleuvront /plœ.vʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | — | — | pleuvrait /plœ.vʁɛ/ |
— | — | pleuvraient /plœ.vʁɛ/ | |
| 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 | — | — | pleuve /plœv/ |
— | — | pleuvent /plœv/ |
| imperfect1 | — | — | plût /ply/ |
— | — | plussent /plys/ | |
| 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 | – | |
| — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1literary tenses | |||||||
Related terms
Further reading
- “pleuvoir” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
This article is issued from
Wiktionary.
The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike.
Additional terms may apply for the media files.