blettir
French
Etymology
From blet.
Pronunciation
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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 blettir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | blettir | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | blettissant /blɛ.ti.sɑ̃/ or /ble.ti.sɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | bletti /blɛ.ti/ or /ble.ti/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | blettis /blɛ.ti/ or /ble.ti/ |
blettis /blɛ.ti/ or /ble.ti/ |
blettit /blɛ.ti/ or /ble.ti/ |
blettissons /blɛ.ti.sɔ̃/ or /ble.ti.sɔ̃/ |
blettissez /blɛ.ti.se/ or /ble.ti.se/ |
blettissent /blɛ.tis/ or /ble.tis/ |
| imperfect | blettissais /blɛ.ti.sɛ/ or /ble.ti.sɛ/ |
blettissais /blɛ.ti.sɛ/ or /ble.ti.sɛ/ |
blettissait /blɛ.ti.sɛ/ or /ble.ti.sɛ/ |
blettissions /blɛ.ti.sjɔ̃/ or /ble.ti.sjɔ̃/ |
blettissiez /blɛ.ti.sje/ or /ble.ti.sje/ |
blettissaient /blɛ.ti.sɛ/ or /ble.ti.sɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | blettis /blɛ.ti/ or /ble.ti/ |
blettis /blɛ.ti/ or /ble.ti/ |
blettit /blɛ.ti/ or /ble.ti/ |
blettîmes /blɛ.tim/ or /ble.tim/ |
blettîtes /blɛ.tit/ or /ble.tit/ |
blettirent /blɛ.tiʁ/ or /ble.tiʁ/ | |
| future | blettirai /blɛ.ti.ʁe/ or /ble.ti.ʁe/ |
blettiras /blɛ.ti.ʁa/ or /ble.ti.ʁa/ |
blettira /blɛ.ti.ʁa/ or /ble.ti.ʁa/ |
blettirons /blɛ.ti.ʁɔ̃/ or /ble.ti.ʁɔ̃/ |
blettirez /blɛ.ti.ʁe/ or /ble.ti.ʁe/ |
blettiront /blɛ.ti.ʁɔ̃/ or /ble.ti.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | blettirais /blɛ.ti.ʁɛ/ or /ble.ti.ʁɛ/ |
blettirais /blɛ.ti.ʁɛ/ or /ble.ti.ʁɛ/ |
blettirait /blɛ.ti.ʁɛ/ or /ble.ti.ʁɛ/ |
blettirions /blɛ.ti.ʁjɔ̃/ or /ble.ti.ʁjɔ̃/ |
blettiriez /blɛ.ti.ʁje/ or /ble.ti.ʁje/ |
blettiraient /blɛ.ti.ʁɛ/ or /ble.ti.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 | blettisse /blɛ.tis/ or /ble.tis/ |
blettisses /blɛ.tis/ or /ble.tis/ |
blettisse /blɛ.tis/ or /ble.tis/ |
blettissions /blɛ.ti.sjɔ̃/ or /ble.ti.sjɔ̃/ |
blettissiez /blɛ.ti.sje/ or /ble.ti.sje/ |
blettissent /blɛ.tis/ or /ble.tis/ |
| imperfect2 | blettisse /blɛ.tis/ or /ble.tis/ |
blettisses /blɛ.tis/ or /ble.tis/ |
blettît /blɛ.ti/ or /ble.ti/ |
blettissions /blɛ.ti.sjɔ̃/ or /ble.ti.sjɔ̃/ |
blettissiez /blɛ.ti.sje/ or /ble.ti.sje/ |
blettissent /blɛ.tis/ or /ble.tis/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | blettis /blɛ.ti/ or /ble.ti/ |
— | blettissons /blɛ.ti.sɔ̃/ or /ble.ti.sɔ̃/ |
blettissez /blɛ.ti.se/ or /ble.ti.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). | |||||||
Further reading
- “blettir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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