éclaircir
French edit
Etymology edit
From Late Latin *exclaricire, from Latin claricare.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
éclaircir
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 éclaircir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | éclaircir | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | éclaircissant /e.klɛʁ.si.sɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | éclairci /e.klɛʁ.si/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | éclaircis /e.klɛʁ.si/ |
éclaircis /e.klɛʁ.si/ |
éclaircit /e.klɛʁ.si/ |
éclaircissons /e.klɛʁ.si.sɔ̃/ |
éclaircissez /e.klɛʁ.si.se/ |
éclaircissent /e.klɛʁ.sis/ |
| imperfect | éclaircissais /e.klɛʁ.si.sɛ/ |
éclaircissais /e.klɛʁ.si.sɛ/ |
éclaircissait /e.klɛʁ.si.sɛ/ |
éclaircissions /e.klɛʁ.si.sjɔ̃/ |
éclaircissiez /e.klɛʁ.si.sje/ |
éclaircissaient /e.klɛʁ.si.sɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | éclaircis /e.klɛʁ.si/ |
éclaircis /e.klɛʁ.si/ |
éclaircit /e.klɛʁ.si/ |
éclaircîmes /e.klɛʁ.sim/ |
éclaircîtes /e.klɛʁ.sit/ |
éclaircirent /e.klɛʁ.siʁ/ | |
| future | éclaircirai /e.klɛʁ.si.ʁe/ |
éclairciras /e.klɛʁ.si.ʁa/ |
éclaircira /e.klɛʁ.si.ʁa/ |
éclaircirons /e.klɛʁ.si.ʁɔ̃/ |
éclaircirez /e.klɛʁ.si.ʁe/ |
éclairciront /e.klɛʁ.si.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | éclaircirais /e.klɛʁ.si.ʁɛ/ |
éclaircirais /e.klɛʁ.si.ʁɛ/ |
éclaircirait /e.klɛʁ.si.ʁɛ/ |
éclaircirions /e.klɛʁ.si.ʁjɔ̃/ |
éclairciriez /e.klɛʁ.si.ʁje/ |
éclairciraient /e.klɛʁ.si.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 | éclaircisse /e.klɛʁ.sis/ |
éclaircisses /e.klɛʁ.sis/ |
éclaircisse /e.klɛʁ.sis/ |
éclaircissions /e.klɛʁ.si.sjɔ̃/ |
éclaircissiez /e.klɛʁ.si.sje/ |
éclaircissent /e.klɛʁ.sis/ |
| imperfect2 | éclaircisse /e.klɛʁ.sis/ |
éclaircisses /e.klɛʁ.sis/ |
éclaircît /e.klɛʁ.si/ |
éclaircissions /e.klɛʁ.si.sjɔ̃/ |
éclaircissiez /e.klɛʁ.si.sje/ |
éclaircissent /e.klɛʁ.sis/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | éclaircis /e.klɛʁ.si/ |
— | éclaircissons /e.klɛʁ.si.sɔ̃/ |
éclaircissez /e.klɛʁ.si.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). | |||||||
Further reading edit
- “éclaircir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.