publier

French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin publicō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /py.bli.je/

• Audio:

  (file)

Verb

publier

1. to publish, to release, to issue

Conjugation

Conjugation of publier (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	publier
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	publiant /py.bli.jɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		publié /py.bli.je/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	publie /py.bli/	publies /py.bli/	publie /py.bli/	publions /py.bli.jɔ̃/	publiez /py.bli.je/	publient /py.bli/
	imperfect	publiais /py.bli.jɛ/	publiais /py.bli.jɛ/	publiait /py.bli.jɛ/	publiions /py.bli.jɔ̃/	publiiez /py.bli.je/	publiaient /py.bli.jɛ/
	past historic2	publiai /py.bli.je/	publias /py.bli.ja/	publia /py.bli.ja/	publiâmes /py.bli.jam/	publiâtes /py.bli.jat/	publièrent /py.bli.jɛʁ/
	future	publierai /py.bli.ʁe/	publieras /py.bli.ʁa/	publiera /py.bli.ʁa/	publierons /py.bli.ʁɔ̃/	publierez /py.bli.ʁe/	publieront /py.bli.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	publierais /py.bli.ʁɛ/	publierais /py.bli.ʁɛ/	publierait /py.bli.ʁɛ/	publierions /py.bli.ʁjɔ̃/	publieriez /py.bli.ʁje/	publieraient /py.bli.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	publie /py.bli/	publies /py.bli/	publie /py.bli/	publiions /py.bli.jɔ̃/	publiiez /py.bli.je/	publient /py.bli/
	imperfect2	publiasse /py.bli.jas/	publiasses /py.bli.jas/	publiât /py.bli.ja/	publiassions /py.bli.ja.sjɔ̃/	publiassiez /py.bli.ja.sje/	publiassent /py.bli.jas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	publie /py.bli/	—	publions /py.bli.jɔ̃/	publiez /py.bli.je/	—
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

• publication

Related terms

• public

Further reading

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