See also: apparaitre

French

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Inherited from Middle French apparoistre, from Old French aparoistre, from Late Latin appārēscere (begin to appear), from Latin appareō.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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apparaître

  1. to appear (become visible)
    Dans la nuit, il vit un spectre apparaître.In the night, he saw a specter appear.
  2. (video games) to spawn

Usage notes

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  • The auxiliary avoir can also be used, indicating action rather than state. However, in common usage, être tends to replace avoir for all senses.[1]
  • apparaître cannot be used for "to appear" in the sense of "to seem," e.g. "he appeared to be angry." For this sense, only paraître can be used.

Conjugation

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This verb is one of a fairly small group of -re verbs that are all conjugated the same way. They are unlike other verb groups in that the 'i' is given a circumflex before a 't'.

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References

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  1. ^ apparaître”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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