fleurer

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French

Etymology

Perhaps a variant of flairer, or more likely from fleur (“odour”) (obsolete in standard modern French but still found in local dialects), from Old French flaour, flaör (whence English flavour), from Vulgar Latin *flātārī (“odour, that which blows”), from Latin flātus.

Pronunciation

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Verb

fleurer

  1. to give off (an odor)
  2. to waft
  3. to smell, catch a waft of
  4. to sprinkle

Conjugation

Conjugation of fleurer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive simple fleurer
compound avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1 simple fleurant
/flœ.ʁɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
past participle fleuré
/flœ.ʁe/
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle, on nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses) 		present fleure
/flœʁ/ 		fleures
/flœʁ/ 		fleure
/flœʁ/ 		fleurons
/flœ.ʁɔ̃/ 		fleurez
/flœ.ʁe/ 		fleurent
/flœʁ/
imperfect fleurais
/flœ.ʁɛ/ 		fleurais
/flœ.ʁɛ/ 		fleurait
/flœ.ʁɛ/ 		fleurions
/flœ.ʁjɔ̃/ 		fleuriez
/flœ.ʁje/ 		fleuraient
/flœ.ʁɛ/
past historic2 fleurai
/flœ.ʁe/ 		fleuras
/flœ.ʁa/ 		fleura
/flœ.ʁa/ 		fleurâmes
/flœ.ʁam/ 		fleurâtes
/flœ.ʁat/ 		fleurèrent
/flœ.ʁɛʁ/
future fleurerai
/flœ.ʁə.ʁe/ 		fleureras
/flœ.ʁə.ʁa/ 		fleurera
/flœ.ʁə.ʁa/ 		fleurerons
/flœ.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ 		fleurerez
/flœ.ʁə.ʁe/ 		fleureront
/flœ.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/
conditional fleurerais
/flœ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ 		fleurerais
/flœ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ 		fleurerait
/flœ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ 		fleurerions
/flœ.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/ 		fleureriez
/flœ.ʁə.ʁje/ 		fleureraient
/flœ.ʁə.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 fleure
/flœʁ/ 		fleures
/flœʁ/ 		fleure
/flœʁ/ 		fleurions
/flœ.ʁjɔ̃/ 		fleuriez
/flœ.ʁje/ 		fleurent
/flœʁ/
imperfect2 fleurasse
/flœ.ʁas/ 		fleurasses
/flœ.ʁas/ 		fleurât
/flœ.ʁa/ 		fleurassions
/flœ.ʁa.sjɔ̃/ 		fleurassiez
/flœ.ʁa.sje/ 		fleurassent
/flœ.ʁas/
(compound
tenses) 		past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — fleure
/flœʁ/ 		— fleurons
/flœ.ʁɔ̃/ 		fleurez
/flœ.ʁe/ 		—
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 , Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

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