verdir
French
Etymology
Either from vert or from a Vulgar Latin root *vir(i)dire, from Latin viridēscere, present active infinitive of viridēscō. Compare Italian inverdire, Spanish enverdir, enverdecer, Portuguese enverdecer, Romanian înverzi.
Verb
verdir
- to turn green
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 verdir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | verdir | avoir verdi | |||||
| gerund | en verdissant | en ayant verdi | |||||
| present participle | verdissant /vɛʁ.di.sɑ̃/ | ||||||
| past participle | verdi /vɛʁ.di/ | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | verdis /vɛʁ.di/ |
verdis /vɛʁ.di/ |
verdit /vɛʁ.di/ |
verdissons /vɛʁ.di.sɔ̃/ |
verdissez /vɛʁ.di.se/ |
verdissent /vɛʁ.dis/ |
| imperfect | verdissais /vɛʁ.di.sɛ/ |
verdissais /vɛʁ.di.sɛ/ |
verdissait /vɛʁ.di.sɛ/ |
verdissions /vɛʁ.di.sjɔ̃/ |
verdissiez /vɛʁ.di.sje/ |
verdissaient /vɛʁ.di.sɛ/ | |
| past historic1 | verdis /vɛʁ.di/ |
verdis /vɛʁ.di/ |
verdit /vɛʁ.di/ |
verdîmes /vɛʁ.dim/ |
verdîtes /vɛʁ.dit/ |
verdirent /vɛʁ.diʁ/ | |
| future | verdirai /vɛʁ.di.ʁe/ |
verdiras /vɛʁ.di.ʁa/ |
verdira /vɛʁ.di.ʁa/ |
verdirons /vɛʁ.di.ʁɔ̃/ |
verdirez /vɛʁ.di.ʁe/ |
verdiront /vɛʁ.di.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | verdirais /vɛʁ.di.ʁɛ/ |
verdirais /vɛʁ.di.ʁɛ/ |
verdirait /vɛʁ.di.ʁɛ/ |
verdirions /vɛʁ.di.ʁjɔ̃/ |
verdiriez /vɛʁ.di.ʁje/ |
verdiraient /vɛʁ.di.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 | verdisse /vɛʁ.dis/ |
verdisses /vɛʁ.dis/ |
verdisse /vɛʁ.dis/ |
verdissions /vɛʁ.di.sjɔ̃/ |
verdissiez /vɛʁ.di.sje/ |
verdissent /vɛʁ.dis/ |
| imperfect1 | verdisse /vɛʁ.dis/ |
verdisses /vɛʁ.dis/ |
verdît /vɛʁ.di/ |
verdissions /vɛʁ.di.sjɔ̃/ |
verdissiez /vɛʁ.di.sje/ |
verdissent /vɛʁ.dis/ | |
| 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 | – | |
| — | verdis /vɛʁ.di/ |
— | verdissons /vɛʁ.di.sɔ̃/ |
verdissez /vɛʁ.di.se/ |
— | ||
| 1literary tenses | |||||||
Related terms
Further reading
- “verdir” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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