pétrifier

See also: petrifier

French

Etymology

From Latin petra (“stone, rock”) +‎ -ifier.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pe.tʁi.fje/

• Audio:

  (file)

Verb

pétrifier

1. (transitive) to petrify (to turn to stone)
2. (transitive, figuratively) to petrify, to paralyze (to freeze with fear)

   Synonym: figer

Conjugation

Conjugation of pétrifier (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	pétrifier
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	pétrifiant /pe.tʁi.fjɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		pétrifié /pe.tʁi.fje/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	pétrifie /pe.tʁi.fi/	pétrifies /pe.tʁi.fi/	pétrifie /pe.tʁi.fi/	pétrifions /pe.tʁi.fjɔ̃/	pétrifiez /pe.tʁi.fje/	pétrifient /pe.tʁi.fi/
	imperfect	pétrifiais /pe.tʁi.fjɛ/	pétrifiais /pe.tʁi.fjɛ/	pétrifiait /pe.tʁi.fjɛ/	pétrifiions /pe.tʁi.fi.jɔ̃/	pétrifiiez /pe.tʁi.fi.je/	pétrifiaient /pe.tʁi.fjɛ/
	past historic2	pétrifiai /pe.tʁi.fje/	pétrifias /pe.tʁi.fja/	pétrifia /pe.tʁi.fja/	pétrifiâmes /pe.tʁi.fjam/	pétrifiâtes /pe.tʁi.fjat/	pétrifièrent /pe.tʁi.fjɛʁ/
	future	pétrifierai /pe.tʁi.fi.ʁe/	pétrifieras /pe.tʁi.fi.ʁa/	pétrifiera /pe.tʁi.fi.ʁa/	pétrifierons /pe.tʁi.fi.ʁɔ̃/	pétrifierez /pe.tʁi.fi.ʁe/	pétrifieront /pe.tʁi.fi.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	pétrifierais /pe.tʁi.fi.ʁɛ/	pétrifierais /pe.tʁi.fi.ʁɛ/	pétrifierait /pe.tʁi.fi.ʁɛ/	pétrifierions /pe.tʁi.fi.ʁjɔ̃/	pétrifieriez /pe.tʁi.fi.ʁje/	pétrifieraient /pe.tʁi.fi.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	pétrifie /pe.tʁi.fi/	pétrifies /pe.tʁi.fi/	pétrifie /pe.tʁi.fi/	pétrifiions /pe.tʁi.fi.jɔ̃/	pétrifiiez /pe.tʁi.fi.je/	pétrifient /pe.tʁi.fi/
	imperfect2	pétrifiasse /pe.tʁi.fjas/	pétrifiasses /pe.tʁi.fjas/	pétrifiât /pe.tʁi.fja/	pétrifiassions /pe.tʁi.fja.sjɔ̃/	pétrifiassiez /pe.tʁi.fja.sje/	pétrifiassent /pe.tʁi.fjas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	pétrifie /pe.tʁi.fi/	—	pétrifions /pe.tʁi.fjɔ̃/	pétrifiez /pe.tʁi.fje/	—
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

• pétrification

Further reading

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