verdir
French
Etymology
From Old French verdir (12th c.), possibly inherited from Vulgar Latin *vir(i)dire, an alteration of Classical Latin viridēscere. Compare Italian inverdire, archaic Spanish enverdir (alongside enverdecer), Romanian înverzi. Equivalent to vert + -ir (the -t in vert being due to final devoicing).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /vɛʁ.diʁ/
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Verb
verdir
- to turn green
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 verdir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | verdir | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | verdissant /vɛʁ.di.sɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | verdi /vɛʁ.di/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | verdis /vɛʁ.di/ |
verdis /vɛʁ.di/ |
verdit /vɛʁ.di/ |
verdissons /vɛʁ.di.sɔ̃/ |
verdissez /vɛʁ.di.se/ |
verdissent /vɛʁ.dis/ |
| imperfect | verdissais /vɛʁ.di.sɛ/ |
verdissais /vɛʁ.di.sɛ/ |
verdissait /vɛʁ.di.sɛ/ |
verdissions /vɛʁ.di.sjɔ̃/ |
verdissiez /vɛʁ.di.sje/ |
verdissaient /vɛʁ.di.sɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | verdis /vɛʁ.di/ |
verdis /vɛʁ.di/ |
verdit /vɛʁ.di/ |
verdîmes /vɛʁ.dim/ |
verdîtes /vɛʁ.dit/ |
verdirent /vɛʁ.diʁ/ | |
| future | verdirai /vɛʁ.di.ʁe/ |
verdiras /vɛʁ.di.ʁa/ |
verdira /vɛʁ.di.ʁa/ |
verdirons /vɛʁ.di.ʁɔ̃/ |
verdirez /vɛʁ.di.ʁe/ |
verdiront /vɛʁ.di.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | verdirais /vɛʁ.di.ʁɛ/ |
verdirais /vɛʁ.di.ʁɛ/ |
verdirait /vɛʁ.di.ʁɛ/ |
verdirions /vɛʁ.di.ʁjɔ̃/ |
verdiriez /vɛʁ.di.ʁje/ |
verdiraient /vɛʁ.di.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 | verdisse /vɛʁ.dis/ |
verdisses /vɛʁ.dis/ |
verdisse /vɛʁ.dis/ |
verdissions /vɛʁ.di.sjɔ̃/ |
verdissiez /vɛʁ.di.sje/ |
verdissent /vɛʁ.dis/ |
| imperfect2 | verdisse /vɛʁ.dis/ |
verdisses /vɛʁ.dis/ |
verdît /vɛʁ.di/ |
verdissions /vɛʁ.di.sjɔ̃/ |
verdissiez /vɛʁ.di.sje/ |
verdissent /vɛʁ.dis/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | verdis /vɛʁ.di/ |
— | verdissons /vɛʁ.di.sɔ̃/ |
verdissez /vɛʁ.di.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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Related terms
Further reading
- “verdir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.