fleurir

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French fleurir, variant of florir (influenced by fleur 'flower'), from Old French florir, from Late Latin flōrīre, from Latin flōrēre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /flœ.ʁiʁ/

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Verb

fleurir

1. to flower; to produce flowers
2. to bloom
3. to flourish

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 fleurir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	fleurir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	fleurissant /flœ.ʁi.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		fleuri /flœ.ʁi/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	fleuris /flœ.ʁi/	fleuris /flœ.ʁi/	fleurit /flœ.ʁi/	fleurissons /flœ.ʁi.sɔ̃/	fleurissez /flœ.ʁi.se/	fleurissent /flœ.ʁis/
	imperfect	fleurissais /flœ.ʁi.sɛ/	fleurissais /flœ.ʁi.sɛ/	fleurissait /flœ.ʁi.sɛ/	fleurissions /flœ.ʁi.sjɔ̃/	fleurissiez /flœ.ʁi.sje/	fleurissaient /flœ.ʁi.sɛ/
	past historic2	fleuris /flœ.ʁi/	fleuris /flœ.ʁi/	fleurit /flœ.ʁi/	fleurîmes /flœ.ʁim/	fleurîtes /flœ.ʁit/	fleurirent /flœ.ʁiʁ/
	future	fleurirai /flœ.ʁi.ʁe/	fleuriras /flœ.ʁi.ʁa/	fleurira /flœ.ʁi.ʁa/	fleurirons /flœ.ʁi.ʁɔ̃/	fleurirez /flœ.ʁi.ʁe/	fleuriront /flœ.ʁi.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	fleurirais /flœ.ʁi.ʁɛ/	fleurirais /flœ.ʁi.ʁɛ/	fleurirait /flœ.ʁi.ʁɛ/	fleuririons /flœ.ʁi.ʁjɔ̃/	fleuririez /flœ.ʁi.ʁje/	fleuriraient /flœ.ʁi.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	fleurisse /flœ.ʁis/	fleurisses /flœ.ʁis/	fleurisse /flœ.ʁis/	fleurissions /flœ.ʁi.sjɔ̃/	fleurissiez /flœ.ʁi.sje/	fleurissent /flœ.ʁis/
	imperfect2	fleurisse /flœ.ʁis/	fleurisses /flœ.ʁis/	fleurît /flœ.ʁi/	fleurissions /flœ.ʁi.sjɔ̃/	fleurissiez /flœ.ʁi.sje/	fleurissent /flœ.ʁis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	fleuris /flœ.ʁi/	—	fleurissons /flœ.ʁi.sɔ̃/	fleurissez /flœ.ʁi.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

• défleurir
• fleurissement
• refleurir

 

Further reading

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