pourrir
French edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Vulgar Latin *putrīre, from Latin putrēre (with a change in verb class), with inflexions taken from putrēscere.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
pourrir
- (chiefly intransitive) to rot, decompose, putrefy, crumble
- (intransitive) to waste away from a disease such as gangrene
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 pourrir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | pourrir | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | pourrissant /pu.ʁi.sɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | pourri /pu.ʁi/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (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 historic2 | 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 | 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 | pourrisse /pu.ʁis/ |
pourrisses /pu.ʁis/ |
pourrisse /pu.ʁis/ |
pourrissions /pu.ʁi.sjɔ̃/ |
pourrissiez /pu.ʁi.sje/ |
pourrissent /pu.ʁis/ |
| imperfect2 | pourrisse /pu.ʁis/ |
pourrisses /pu.ʁis/ |
pourrît /pu.ʁi/ |
pourrissions /pu.ʁi.sjɔ̃/ |
pourrissiez /pu.ʁi.sje/ |
pourrissent /pu.ʁis/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | pourris /pu.ʁi/ |
— | pourrissons /pu.ʁi.sɔ̃/ |
pourrissez /pu.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). | |||||||
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See also edit
Further reading edit
- “pourrir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.