apparier

French

Pronunciation

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Verb

apparier

1. (transitive) to pair or match
2. (transitive, of birds) to couple or mate

Conjugation

Conjugation of apparier (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	apparier
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	appariant /a.pa.ʁjɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		apparié /a.pa.ʁje/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	apparie /a.pa.ʁi/	apparies /a.pa.ʁi/	apparie /a.pa.ʁi/	apparions /a.pa.ʁjɔ̃/	appariez /a.pa.ʁje/	apparient /a.pa.ʁi/
	imperfect	appariais /a.pa.ʁjɛ/	appariais /a.pa.ʁjɛ/	appariait /a.pa.ʁjɛ/	appariions /a.pa.ʁi.jɔ̃/	appariiez /a.pa.ʁi.je/	appariaient /a.pa.ʁjɛ/
	past historic2	appariai /a.pa.ʁje/	apparias /a.pa.ʁja/	apparia /a.pa.ʁja/	appariâmes /a.pa.ʁjam/	appariâtes /a.pa.ʁjat/	apparièrent /a.pa.ʁjɛʁ/
	future	apparierai /a.pa.ʁi.ʁe/	apparieras /a.pa.ʁi.ʁa/	appariera /a.pa.ʁi.ʁa/	apparierons /a.pa.ʁi.ʁɔ̃/	apparierez /a.pa.ʁi.ʁe/	apparieront /a.pa.ʁi.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	apparierais /a.pa.ʁi.ʁɛ/	apparierais /a.pa.ʁi.ʁɛ/	apparierait /a.pa.ʁi.ʁɛ/	apparierions /a.pa.ʁi.ʁjɔ̃/	apparieriez /a.pa.ʁi.ʁje/	apparieraient /a.pa.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	apparie /a.pa.ʁi/	apparies /a.pa.ʁi/	apparie /a.pa.ʁi/	appariions /a.pa.ʁi.jɔ̃/	appariiez /a.pa.ʁi.je/	apparient /a.pa.ʁi/
	imperfect2	appariasse /a.pa.ʁjas/	appariasses /a.pa.ʁjas/	appariât /a.pa.ʁja/	appariassions /a.pa.ʁja.sjɔ̃/	appariassiez /a.pa.ʁja.sje/	appariassent /a.pa.ʁjas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	apparie /a.pa.ʁi/	—	apparions /a.pa.ʁjɔ̃/	appariez /a.pa.ʁje/	—
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).

Derived terms

• appariable

Further reading

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