pourrir

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French

Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *putrīre, from Latin putrēre (with a change in verb class), with inflexions taken from putrēscere.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pu.ʁiʁ/
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Verb

pourrir

  1. (chiefly intransitive) to rot, decompose, putrefy, crumble
  2. (intransitive) to waste away from a disease such as gangrene

Conjugation

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-.

Conjugation of pourrir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive simple pourrir
compound avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1 simple pourrissant
/pu.ʁi.sɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
past participle pourri
/pu.ʁi/
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle, on nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses) 		present pourris
/pu.ʁi/ 		pourris
/pu.ʁi/ 		pourrit
/pu.ʁi/ 		pourrissons
/pu.ʁi.sɔ̃/ 		pourrissez
/pu.ʁi.se/ 		pourrissent
/pu.ʁis/
imperfect pourrissais
/pu.ʁi.sɛ/ 		pourrissais
/pu.ʁi.sɛ/ 		pourrissait
/pu.ʁi.sɛ/ 		pourrissions
/pu.ʁi.sjɔ̃/ 		pourrissiez
/pu.ʁi.sje/ 		pourrissaient
/pu.ʁi.sɛ/
past historic2 pourris
/pu.ʁi/ 		pourris
/pu.ʁi/ 		pourrit
/pu.ʁi/ 		pourrîmes
/pu.ʁim/ 		pourrîtes
/pu.ʁit/ 		pourrirent
/pu.ʁiʁ/
future pourrirai
/pu.ʁi.ʁe/ 		pourriras
/pu.ʁi.ʁa/ 		pourrira
/pu.ʁi.ʁa/ 		pourrirons
/pu.ʁi.ʁɔ̃/ 		pourrirez
/pu.ʁi.ʁe/ 		pourriront
/pu.ʁi.ʁɔ̃/
conditional pourrirais
/pu.ʁi.ʁɛ/ 		pourrirais
/pu.ʁi.ʁɛ/ 		pourrirait
/pu.ʁi.ʁɛ/ 		pourririons
/pu.ʁi.ʁjɔ̃/ 		pourririez
/pu.ʁi.ʁje/ 		pourriraient
/pu.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 pourrisse
/pu.ʁis/ 		pourrisses
/pu.ʁis/ 		pourrisse
/pu.ʁis/ 		pourrissions
/pu.ʁi.sjɔ̃/ 		pourrissiez
/pu.ʁi.sje/ 		pourrissent
/pu.ʁis/
imperfect2 pourrisse
/pu.ʁis/ 		pourrisses
/pu.ʁis/ 		pourrît
/pu.ʁi/ 		pourrissions
/pu.ʁi.sjɔ̃/ 		pourrissiez
/pu.ʁi.sje/ 		pourrissent
/pu.ʁis/
(compound
tenses) 		past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — pourris
/pu.ʁi/ 		— pourrissons
/pu.ʁi.sɔ̃/ 		pourrissez
/pu.ʁi.se/ 		—
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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