From pâle (“pale”) + -ir (forms infinitives).
pâlir
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 | pâlir | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | pâlissant /pa.li.sɑ̃/ or /pɑ.li.sɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | pâli /pa.li/ or /pɑ.li/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | pâlis /pa.li/ or /pɑ.li/ |
pâlis /pa.li/ or /pɑ.li/ |
pâlit /pa.li/ or /pɑ.li/ |
pâlissons /pa.li.sɔ̃/ or /pɑ.li.sɔ̃/ |
pâlissez /pa.li.se/ or /pɑ.li.se/ |
pâlissent /pa.lis/ or /pɑ.lis/ |
imperfect | pâlissais /pa.li.sɛ/ or /pɑ.li.sɛ/ |
pâlissais /pa.li.sɛ/ or /pɑ.li.sɛ/ |
pâlissait /pa.li.sɛ/ or /pɑ.li.sɛ/ |
pâlissions /pa.li.sjɔ̃/ or /pɑ.li.sjɔ̃/ |
pâlissiez /pa.li.sje/ or /pɑ.li.sje/ |
pâlissaient /pa.li.sɛ/ or /pɑ.li.sɛ/ | |
past historic2 | pâlis /pa.li/ or /pɑ.li/ |
pâlis /pa.li/ or /pɑ.li/ |
pâlit /pa.li/ or /pɑ.li/ |
pâlîmes /pa.lim/ or /pɑ.lim/ |
pâlîtes /pa.lit/ or /pɑ.lit/ |
pâlirent /pa.liʁ/ or /pɑ.liʁ/ | |
future | pâlirai /pa.li.ʁe/ or /pɑ.li.ʁe/ |
pâliras /pa.li.ʁa/ or /pɑ.li.ʁa/ |
pâlira /pa.li.ʁa/ or /pɑ.li.ʁa/ |
pâlirons /pa.li.ʁɔ̃/ or /pɑ.li.ʁɔ̃/ |
pâlirez /pa.li.ʁe/ or /pɑ.li.ʁe/ |
pâliront /pa.li.ʁɔ̃/ or /pɑ.li.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | pâlirais /pa.li.ʁɛ/ or /pɑ.li.ʁɛ/ |
pâlirais /pa.li.ʁɛ/ or /pɑ.li.ʁɛ/ |
pâlirait /pa.li.ʁɛ/ or /pɑ.li.ʁɛ/ |
pâlirions /pa.li.ʁjɔ̃/ or /pɑ.li.ʁjɔ̃/ |
pâliriez /pa.li.ʁje/ or /pɑ.li.ʁje/ |
pâliraient /pa.li.ʁɛ/ or /pɑ.li.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 | pâlisse /pa.lis/ or /pɑ.lis/ |
pâlisses /pa.lis/ or /pɑ.lis/ |
pâlisse /pa.lis/ or /pɑ.lis/ |
pâlissions /pa.li.sjɔ̃/ or /pɑ.li.sjɔ̃/ |
pâlissiez /pa.li.sje/ or /pɑ.li.sje/ |
pâlissent /pa.lis/ or /pɑ.lis/ |
imperfect2 | pâlisse /pa.lis/ or /pɑ.lis/ |
pâlisses /pa.lis/ or /pɑ.lis/ |
pâlît /pa.li/ or /pɑ.li/ |
pâlissions /pa.li.sjɔ̃/ or /pɑ.li.sjɔ̃/ |
pâlissiez /pa.li.sje/ or /pɑ.li.sje/ |
pâlissent /pa.lis/ or /pɑ.lis/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | pâlis /pa.li/ or /pɑ.li/ |
— | pâlissons /pa.li.sɔ̃/ or /pɑ.li.sɔ̃/ |
pâlissez /pa.li.se/ or /pɑ.li.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:
(Christopher Kendris , Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). |