exhiber

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin exhibēre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛɡ.zi.be/

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Verb

exhiber

1. (law) to exhibit
2. to show, show round, show off
3. (reflexive) to show off, flaunt, strut one's stuff

Conjugation

Conjugation of exhiber (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	exhiber
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	exhibant /ɛɡ.zi.bɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		exhibé /ɛɡ.zi.be/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	exhibe /ɛɡ.zib/	exhibes /ɛɡ.zib/	exhibe /ɛɡ.zib/	exhibons /ɛɡ.zi.bɔ̃/	exhibez /ɛɡ.zi.be/	exhibent /ɛɡ.zib/
	imperfect	exhibais /ɛɡ.zi.bɛ/	exhibais /ɛɡ.zi.bɛ/	exhibait /ɛɡ.zi.bɛ/	exhibions /ɛɡ.zi.bjɔ̃/	exhibiez /ɛɡ.zi.bje/	exhibaient /ɛɡ.zi.bɛ/
	past historic2	exhibai /ɛɡ.zi.be/	exhibas /ɛɡ.zi.ba/	exhiba /ɛɡ.zi.ba/	exhibâmes /ɛɡ.zi.bam/	exhibâtes /ɛɡ.zi.bat/	exhibèrent /ɛɡ.zi.bɛʁ/
	future	exhiberai /ɛɡ.zi.bʁe/	exhiberas /ɛɡ.zi.bʁa/	exhibera /ɛɡ.zi.bʁa/	exhiberons /ɛɡ.zi.bʁɔ̃/	exhiberez /ɛɡ.zi.bʁe/	exhiberont /ɛɡ.zi.bʁɔ̃/
	conditional	exhiberais /ɛɡ.zi.bʁɛ/	exhiberais /ɛɡ.zi.bʁɛ/	exhiberait /ɛɡ.zi.bʁɛ/	exhiberions /ɛɡ.zi.bə.ʁjɔ̃/	exhiberiez /ɛɡ.zi.bə.ʁje/	exhiberaient /ɛɡ.zi.bʁɛ/
(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	exhibe /ɛɡ.zib/	exhibes /ɛɡ.zib/	exhibe /ɛɡ.zib/	exhibions /ɛɡ.zi.bjɔ̃/	exhibiez /ɛɡ.zi.bje/	exhibent /ɛɡ.zib/
	imperfect2	exhibasse /ɛɡ.zi.bas/	exhibasses /ɛɡ.zi.bas/	exhibât /ɛɡ.zi.ba/	exhibassions /ɛɡ.zi.ba.sjɔ̃/	exhibassiez /ɛɡ.zi.ba.sje/	exhibassent /ɛɡ.zi.bas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	exhibe /ɛɡ.zib/	—	exhibons /ɛɡ.zi.bɔ̃/	exhibez /ɛɡ.zi.be/	—
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).

Further reading

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