nourrir
French edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Middle French nourrir, from Old French norrir, inherited from Latin nūtrīre.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
nourrir
- to feed (provide with nourishment), nourish
- to nurture, to fuel
- (takes a reflexive pronoun) to eat, to feed oneself
Conjugation edit
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 nourrir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | nourrir | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | nourrissant /nu.ʁi.sɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | nourri /nu.ʁi/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | nourris /nu.ʁi/ |
nourris /nu.ʁi/ |
nourrit /nu.ʁi/ |
nourrissons /nu.ʁi.sɔ̃/ |
nourrissez /nu.ʁi.se/ |
nourrissent /nu.ʁis/ |
| imperfect | nourrissais /nu.ʁi.sɛ/ |
nourrissais /nu.ʁi.sɛ/ |
nourrissait /nu.ʁi.sɛ/ |
nourrissions /nu.ʁi.sjɔ̃/ |
nourrissiez /nu.ʁi.sje/ |
nourrissaient /nu.ʁi.sɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | nourris /nu.ʁi/ |
nourris /nu.ʁi/ |
nourrit /nu.ʁi/ |
nourrîmes /nu.ʁim/ |
nourrîtes /nu.ʁit/ |
nourrirent /nu.ʁiʁ/ | |
| future | nourrirai /nu.ʁi.ʁe/ |
nourriras /nu.ʁi.ʁa/ |
nourrira /nu.ʁi.ʁa/ |
nourrirons /nu.ʁi.ʁɔ̃/ |
nourrirez /nu.ʁi.ʁe/ |
nourriront /nu.ʁi.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | nourrirais /nu.ʁi.ʁɛ/ |
nourrirais /nu.ʁi.ʁɛ/ |
nourrirait /nu.ʁi.ʁɛ/ |
nourririons /nu.ʁi.ʁjɔ̃/ |
nourririez /nu.ʁi.ʁje/ |
nourriraient /nu.ʁi.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 | nourrisse /nu.ʁis/ |
nourrisses /nu.ʁis/ |
nourrisse /nu.ʁis/ |
nourrissions /nu.ʁi.sjɔ̃/ |
nourrissiez /nu.ʁi.sje/ |
nourrissent /nu.ʁis/ |
| imperfect2 | nourrisse /nu.ʁis/ |
nourrisses /nu.ʁis/ |
nourrît /nu.ʁi/ |
nourrissions /nu.ʁi.sjɔ̃/ |
nourrissiez /nu.ʁi.sje/ |
nourrissent /nu.ʁis/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | nourris /nu.ʁi/ |
— | nourrissons /nu.ʁi.sɔ̃/ |
nourrissez /nu.ʁi.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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- “nourrir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle French edit
Etymology edit
From Old French norrir.
Verb edit
nourrir
- to feed (provide with nourishment)
Descendants edit
- French: nourrir