pourrir
French
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *putrīre, from Latin putrere, present active infinitive of putrō, with conjugation from putrēscēre, present active infinitive of putrēscō.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pu.ʁiʁ/
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Verb
pourrir
- (chiefly intransitive) to rot, decompose, putrefy, crumble
- (intransitive) to waste away from a disease such as gangrene
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 pourrir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | pourrir | avoir pourri | |||||
| gerund | en pourrissant | en ayant pourri | |||||
| present participle | pourrissant /pu.ʁi.sɑ̃/ | ||||||
| past participle | pourri /pu.ʁi/ | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | pourris /pu.ʁi/ |
pourris /pu.ʁi/ |
pourrit /pu.ʁi/ |
pourrissons /pu.ʁi.sɔ̃/ |
pourrissez /pu.ʁi.se/ |
pourrissent /pu.ʁis/ |
| imperfect | pourrissais /pu.ʁi.sɛ/ |
pourrissais /pu.ʁi.sɛ/ |
pourrissait /pu.ʁi.sɛ/ |
pourrissions /pu.ʁi.sjɔ̃/ |
pourrissiez /pu.ʁi.sje/ |
pourrissaient /pu.ʁi.sɛ/ | |
| past historic1 | pourris /pu.ʁi/ |
pourris /pu.ʁi/ |
pourrit /pu.ʁi/ |
pourrîmes /pu.ʁim/ |
pourrîtes /pu.ʁit/ |
pourrirent /pu.ʁiʁ/ | |
| future | pourrirai /pu.ʁi.ʁe/ |
pourriras /pu.ʁi.ʁa/ |
pourrira /pu.ʁi.ʁa/ |
pourrirons /pu.ʁi.ʁɔ̃/ |
pourrirez /pu.ʁi.ʁe/ |
pourriront /pu.ʁi.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | pourrirais /pu.ʁi.ʁɛ/ |
pourrirais /pu.ʁi.ʁɛ/ |
pourrirait /pu.ʁi.ʁɛ/ |
pourririons /pu.ʁi.ʁjɔ̃/ |
pourririez /pu.ʁi.ʁje/ |
pourriraient /pu.ʁi.ʁɛ/ | |
| 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 | pourrisse /pu.ʁis/ |
pourrisses /pu.ʁis/ |
pourrisse /pu.ʁis/ |
pourrissions /pu.ʁi.sjɔ̃/ |
pourrissiez /pu.ʁi.sje/ |
pourrissent /pu.ʁis/ |
| imperfect1 | pourrisse /pu.ʁis/ |
pourrisses /pu.ʁis/ |
pourrît /pu.ʁi/ |
pourrissions /pu.ʁi.sjɔ̃/ |
pourrissiez /pu.ʁi.sje/ |
pourrissent /pu.ʁis/ | |
| 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 | – | |
| — | pourris /pu.ʁi/ |
— | pourrissons /pu.ʁi.sɔ̃/ |
pourrissez /pu.ʁi.se/ |
— | ||
| 1literary tenses | |||||||
Derived terms
Related terms
See also
Further reading
- “pourrir” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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