pourrir

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French

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /pu.ʁiʁ/
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Verb

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pourrir

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

Conjugation

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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-.

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See also

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