perdurer

French

Etymology

From Latin perdurare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɛʁ.dy.ʁe/

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Verb

perdurer

1. to continue to exist, to last, to endure
   • 2020 June 19, “Stopper la haine sur Internet”, in Le Monde‎^[1]:

     Cette irresponsabilité ne peut perdurer.

     This irresponsibility cannot continue.

Conjugation

Conjugation of perdurer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	perdurer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	perdurant /pɛʁ.dy.ʁɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		perduré /pɛʁ.dy.ʁe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	perdure /pɛʁ.dyʁ/	perdures /pɛʁ.dyʁ/	perdure /pɛʁ.dyʁ/	perdurons /pɛʁ.dy.ʁɔ̃/	perdurez /pɛʁ.dy.ʁe/	perdurent /pɛʁ.dyʁ/
	imperfect	perdurais /pɛʁ.dy.ʁɛ/	perdurais /pɛʁ.dy.ʁɛ/	perdurait /pɛʁ.dy.ʁɛ/	perdurions /pɛʁ.dy.ʁjɔ̃/	perduriez /pɛʁ.dy.ʁje/	perduraient /pɛʁ.dy.ʁɛ/
	past historic2	perdurai /pɛʁ.dy.ʁe/	perduras /pɛʁ.dy.ʁa/	perdura /pɛʁ.dy.ʁa/	perdurâmes /pɛʁ.dy.ʁam/	perdurâtes /pɛʁ.dy.ʁat/	perdurèrent /pɛʁ.dy.ʁɛʁ/
	future	perdurerai /pɛʁ.dy.ʁə.ʁe/	perdureras /pɛʁ.dy.ʁə.ʁa/	perdurera /pɛʁ.dy.ʁə.ʁa/	perdurerons /pɛʁ.dy.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/	perdurerez /pɛʁ.dy.ʁə.ʁe/	perdureront /pɛʁ.dy.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	perdurerais /pɛʁ.dy.ʁə.ʁɛ/	perdurerais /pɛʁ.dy.ʁə.ʁɛ/	perdurerait /pɛʁ.dy.ʁə.ʁɛ/	perdurerions /pɛʁ.dy.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/	perdureriez /pɛʁ.dy.ʁə.ʁje/	perdureraient /pɛʁ.dy.ʁə.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	perdure /pɛʁ.dyʁ/	perdures /pɛʁ.dyʁ/	perdure /pɛʁ.dyʁ/	perdurions /pɛʁ.dy.ʁjɔ̃/	perduriez /pɛʁ.dy.ʁje/	perdurent /pɛʁ.dyʁ/
	imperfect2	perdurasse /pɛʁ.dy.ʁas/	perdurasses /pɛʁ.dy.ʁas/	perdurât /pɛʁ.dy.ʁa/	perdurassions /pɛʁ.dy.ʁa.sjɔ̃/	perdurassiez /pɛʁ.dy.ʁa.sje/	perdurassent /pɛʁ.dy.ʁas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	perdure /pɛʁ.dyʁ/	—	perdurons /pɛʁ.dy.ʁɔ̃/	perdurez /pɛʁ.dy.ʁe/	—
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

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

Latin

Verb

perdūrer

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of perdūrō