blondir

French

Etymology

From blond +‎ -ir.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /blɔ̃.diʁ/

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Verb

blondir

1. to dye blond
2. (cooking) to brown (cook slightly to give some color)

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 blondir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	blondir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	blondissant /blɔ̃.di.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		blondi /blɔ̃.di/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	blondis /blɔ̃.di/	blondis /blɔ̃.di/	blondit /blɔ̃.di/	blondissons /blɔ̃.di.sɔ̃/	blondissez /blɔ̃.di.se/	blondissent /blɔ̃.dis/
	imperfect	blondissais /blɔ̃.di.sɛ/	blondissais /blɔ̃.di.sɛ/	blondissait /blɔ̃.di.sɛ/	blondissions /blɔ̃.di.sjɔ̃/	blondissiez /blɔ̃.di.sje/	blondissaient /blɔ̃.di.sɛ/
	past historic2	blondis /blɔ̃.di/	blondis /blɔ̃.di/	blondit /blɔ̃.di/	blondîmes /blɔ̃.dim/	blondîtes /blɔ̃.dit/	blondirent /blɔ̃.diʁ/
	future	blondirai /blɔ̃.di.ʁe/	blondiras /blɔ̃.di.ʁa/	blondira /blɔ̃.di.ʁa/	blondirons /blɔ̃.di.ʁɔ̃/	blondirez /blɔ̃.di.ʁe/	blondiront /blɔ̃.di.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	blondirais /blɔ̃.di.ʁɛ/	blondirais /blɔ̃.di.ʁɛ/	blondirait /blɔ̃.di.ʁɛ/	blondirions /blɔ̃.di.ʁjɔ̃/	blondiriez /blɔ̃.di.ʁje/	blondiraient /blɔ̃.di.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	blondisse /blɔ̃.dis/	blondisses /blɔ̃.dis/	blondisse /blɔ̃.dis/	blondissions /blɔ̃.di.sjɔ̃/	blondissiez /blɔ̃.di.sje/	blondissent /blɔ̃.dis/
	imperfect2	blondisse /blɔ̃.dis/	blondisses /blɔ̃.dis/	blondît /blɔ̃.di/	blondissions /blɔ̃.di.sjɔ̃/	blondissiez /blɔ̃.di.sje/	blondissent /blɔ̃.dis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	blondis /blɔ̃.di/	—	blondissons /blɔ̃.di.sɔ̃/	blondissez /blɔ̃.di.se/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Related terms

• blondissement

Further reading

• “blondir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.