apparaître

• apparaitre (post-1990 spelling)

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

• IPA^(key): /a.pa.ʁɛtʁ/

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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

• 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.

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'.

• paraître

• “apparaître”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

• réapparait, réapparaît