bleuir

French

Etymology

From bleu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /blø.iʁ/

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Verb

bleuir

1. (transitive) to make blue, turn blue
2. (intransitive) to turn blue, go blue

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 bleuir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	bleuir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	bleuissant /blø.i.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		bleui /blø.i/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	bleuis /blø.i/	bleuis /blø.i/	bleuit /blø.i/	bleuissons /blø.i.sɔ̃/	bleuissez /blø.i.se/	bleuissent /blø.is/
	imperfect	bleuissais /blø.i.sɛ/	bleuissais /blø.i.sɛ/	bleuissait /blø.i.sɛ/	bleuissions /blø.i.sjɔ̃/	bleuissiez /blø.i.sje/	bleuissaient /blø.i.sɛ/
	past historic2	bleuis /blø.i/	bleuis /blø.i/	bleuit /blø.i/	bleuîmes /blø.im/	bleuîtes /blø.it/	bleuirent /blø.iʁ/
	future	bleuirai /blø.i.ʁe/	bleuiras /blø.i.ʁa/	bleuira /blø.i.ʁa/	bleuirons /blø.i.ʁɔ̃/	bleuirez /blø.i.ʁe/	bleuiront /blø.i.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	bleuirais /blø.i.ʁɛ/	bleuirais /blø.i.ʁɛ/	bleuirait /blø.i.ʁɛ/	bleuirions /blø.i.ʁjɔ̃/	bleuiriez /blø.i.ʁje/	bleuiraient /blø.i.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	bleuisse /blø.is/	bleuisses /blø.is/	bleuisse /blø.is/	bleuissions /blø.i.sjɔ̃/	bleuissiez /blø.i.sje/	bleuissent /blø.is/
	imperfect2	bleuisse /blø.is/	bleuisses /blø.is/	bleuît /blø.i/	bleuissions /blø.i.sjɔ̃/	bleuissiez /blø.i.sje/	bleuissent /blø.is/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	bleuis /blø.i/	—	bleuissons /blø.i.sɔ̃/	bleuissez /blø.i.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 [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Derived terms

• bleuissement

Further reading

• “bleuir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.