From Old French meürer with change of conjugation, from Latin mātūrāre. Equivalent to mûr (“mature”) + -ir.
mûrir
This is a regular verb of the second conjugation, like finir, choisir, and most other verbs with infinitives ending in -ir. One salient feature of this conjugation is the repeated appearance of the infix -iss-.
infinitive | simple | mûrir | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | mûrissant /my.ʁi.sɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | mûri /my.ʁi/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | mûris /my.ʁi/ |
mûris /my.ʁi/ |
mûrit /my.ʁi/ |
mûrissons /my.ʁi.sɔ̃/ |
mûrissez /my.ʁi.se/ |
mûrissent /my.ʁis/ |
imperfect | mûrissais /my.ʁi.sɛ/ |
mûrissais /my.ʁi.sɛ/ |
mûrissait /my.ʁi.sɛ/ |
mûrissions /my.ʁi.sjɔ̃/ |
mûrissiez /my.ʁi.sje/ |
mûrissaient /my.ʁi.sɛ/ | |
past historic2 | mûris /my.ʁi/ |
mûris /my.ʁi/ |
mûrit /my.ʁi/ |
mûrîmes /my.ʁim/ |
mûrîtes /my.ʁit/ |
mûrirent /my.ʁiʁ/ | |
future | mûrirai /my.ʁi.ʁe/ |
mûriras /my.ʁi.ʁa/ |
mûrira /my.ʁi.ʁa/ |
mûrirons /my.ʁi.ʁɔ̃/ |
mûrirez /my.ʁi.ʁe/ |
mûriront /my.ʁi.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | mûrirais /my.ʁi.ʁɛ/ |
mûrirais /my.ʁi.ʁɛ/ |
mûrirait /my.ʁi.ʁɛ/ |
mûririons /my.ʁi.ʁjɔ̃/ |
mûririez /my.ʁi.ʁje/ |
mûriraient /my.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 | mûrisse /my.ʁis/ |
mûrisses /my.ʁis/ |
mûrisse /my.ʁis/ |
mûrissions /my.ʁi.sjɔ̃/ |
mûrissiez /my.ʁi.sje/ |
mûrissent /my.ʁis/ |
imperfect2 | mûrisse /my.ʁis/ |
mûrisses /my.ʁis/ |
mûrît /my.ʁi/ |
mûrissions /my.ʁi.sjɔ̃/ |
mûrissiez /my.ʁi.sje/ |
mûrissent /my.ʁis/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | mûris /my.ʁi/ |
— | mûrissons /my.ʁi.sɔ̃/ |
mûrissez /my.ʁi.se/ |
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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:
(Christopher Kendris , Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). |