apparaître
Appearance
See also: apparaitre
French
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Middle French apparoistre, from Old French aparoistre, from Late Latin appārēscere (“begin to appear”), from Latin appareō.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]apparaître
- to appear (become visible)
- Dans la nuit, il vit un spectre apparaître. ― In the night, he saw a specter appear.
- (video games) to spawn
Usage notes
[edit]- The auxiliary avoir can also be used, indicating action rather than state. However, in common usage, être tends to replace avoir for all senses.[1]
- apparaître cannot be used for "to appear" in the sense of "to seem," e.g. "he appeared to be angry." For this sense, only paraître can be used.
Conjugation
[edit]This verb is one of a fairly small group of -re verbs that are all conjugated the same way. They are unlike other verb groups in that the 'i' is given a circumflex before a 't'.
Conjugation of apparaître (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | apparaître | |||||
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compound | avoir or être + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | apparaissant /a.pa.ʁɛ.sɑ̃/ or /a.pa.ʁe.sɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant or étant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | apparu /a.pa.ʁy/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | apparais /a.pa.ʁɛ/ |
apparais /a.pa.ʁɛ/ |
apparaît /a.pa.ʁɛ/ |
apparaissons /a.pa.ʁɛ.sɔ̃/ or /a.pa.ʁe.sɔ̃/ |
apparaissez /a.pa.ʁɛ.se/ or /a.pa.ʁe.se/ |
apparaissent /a.pa.ʁɛs/ |
imperfect | apparaissais /a.pa.ʁɛ.sɛ/ or /a.pa.ʁe.sɛ/ |
apparaissais /a.pa.ʁɛ.sɛ/ or /a.pa.ʁe.sɛ/ |
apparaissait /a.pa.ʁɛ.sɛ/ or /a.pa.ʁe.sɛ/ |
apparaissions /a.pa.ʁɛ.sjɔ̃/ or /a.pa.ʁe.sjɔ̃/ |
apparaissiez /a.pa.ʁɛ.sje/ or /a.pa.ʁe.sje/ |
apparaissaient /a.pa.ʁɛ.sɛ/ or /a.pa.ʁe.sɛ/ | |
past historic2 | apparus /a.pa.ʁy/ |
apparus /a.pa.ʁy/ |
apparut /a.pa.ʁy/ |
apparûmes /a.pa.ʁym/ |
apparûtes /a.pa.ʁyt/ |
apparurent /a.pa.ʁyʁ/ | |
future | apparaîtrai /a.pa.ʁɛ.tʁe/ or /a.pa.ʁe.tʁe/ |
apparaîtras /a.pa.ʁɛ.tʁa/ or /a.pa.ʁe.tʁa/ |
apparaîtra /a.pa.ʁɛ.tʁa/ or /a.pa.ʁe.tʁa/ |
apparaîtrons /a.pa.ʁɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /a.pa.ʁe.tʁɔ̃/ |
apparaîtrez /a.pa.ʁɛ.tʁe/ or /a.pa.ʁe.tʁe/ |
apparaîtront /a.pa.ʁɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /a.pa.ʁe.tʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | apparaîtrais /a.pa.ʁɛ.tʁɛ/ or /a.pa.ʁe.tʁɛ/ |
apparaîtrais /a.pa.ʁɛ.tʁɛ/ or /a.pa.ʁe.tʁɛ/ |
apparaîtrait /a.pa.ʁɛ.tʁɛ/ or /a.pa.ʁe.tʁɛ/ |
apparaîtrions /a.pa.ʁɛ.tʁi.jɔ̃/ or /a.pa.ʁe.tʁi.jɔ̃/ |
apparaîtriez /a.pa.ʁɛ.tʁi.je/ or /a.pa.ʁe.tʁi.je/ |
apparaîtraient /a.pa.ʁɛ.tʁɛ/ or /a.pa.ʁe.tʁɛ/ | |
(compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir or être + past participle | |||||
pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir or être + past participle | ||||||
past anterior2 | past historic of avoir or être + past participle | ||||||
future perfect | future of avoir or être + past participle | ||||||
conditional perfect | conditional of avoir or être + past participle | ||||||
subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | apparaisse /a.pa.ʁɛs/ |
apparaisses /a.pa.ʁɛs/ |
apparaisse /a.pa.ʁɛs/ |
apparaissions /a.pa.ʁɛ.sjɔ̃/ or /a.pa.ʁe.sjɔ̃/ |
apparaissiez /a.pa.ʁɛ.sje/ or /a.pa.ʁe.sje/ |
apparaissent /a.pa.ʁɛs/ |
imperfect2 | apparusse /a.pa.ʁys/ |
apparusses /a.pa.ʁys/ |
apparût /a.pa.ʁy/ |
apparussions /a.pa.ʁy.sjɔ̃/ |
apparussiez /a.pa.ʁy.sje/ |
apparussent /a.pa.ʁys/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir or être + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir or être + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | apparais /a.pa.ʁɛ/ |
— | apparaissons /a.pa.ʁɛ.sɔ̃/ or /a.pa.ʁe.sɔ̃/ |
apparaissez /a.pa.ʁɛ.se/ or /a.pa.ʁe.se/ |
— | |
compound | — | simple imperative of avoir or être + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir or être + past participle | simple imperative of avoir or être + 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 [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). |
Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ “apparaître”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Further reading
[edit]- “apparaître”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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