disparaître
See also: disparaitre
French
Alternative forms
Etymology
Formed from dis- + paraître, based on Late Latin disparere.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dis.pa.ʁɛtʁ/
audio (file) - Rhymes: -ɛtʁ
Verb
disparaître
- to disappear
- Antonym: apparaître
- 1997, Le Courrier de la nature, numbers 161-174, page 149:
- A noter que la caouanne, Caretta caretta, semble effectivement ne plus pondre en Corse, l’espèce n’a pas complètement disparu des côtes de France où, chaque année, quelques individus sont capturés involontairement par des engins de pêche.
- It should be noted that the loggerhead turtle, Caretta caretta, no longer seems to lay eggs in Corsica, but the species has not completely disappeared from French coastlines where, each year, several individuals are caught unintentionally in fishing apparatus.
- (video games) to despawn
Conjugation
This verb is one of a fairly small group of -re verbs, that are all conjugated the same way. They are unlike other verb groups in that the 'i' is given a circumflex before a 't'.
Conjugation of disparaître (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | disparaître | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir or être + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | disparaissant /dis.pa.ʁɛ.sɑ̃/ or /dis.pa.ʁe.sɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant or étant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | disparu /dis.pa.ʁy/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | disparais /dis.pa.ʁɛ/ |
disparais /dis.pa.ʁɛ/ |
disparaît /dis.pa.ʁɛ/ |
disparaissons /dis.pa.ʁɛ.sɔ̃/ or /dis.pa.ʁe.sɔ̃/ |
disparaissez /dis.pa.ʁɛ.se/ or /dis.pa.ʁe.se/ |
disparaissent /dis.pa.ʁɛs/ |
| imperfect | disparaissais /dis.pa.ʁɛ.sɛ/ or /dis.pa.ʁe.sɛ/ |
disparaissais /dis.pa.ʁɛ.sɛ/ or /dis.pa.ʁe.sɛ/ |
disparaissait /dis.pa.ʁɛ.sɛ/ or /dis.pa.ʁe.sɛ/ |
disparaissions /dis.pa.ʁɛ.sjɔ̃/ or /dis.pa.ʁe.sjɔ̃/ |
disparaissiez /dis.pa.ʁɛ.sje/ or /dis.pa.ʁe.sje/ |
disparaissaient /dis.pa.ʁɛ.sɛ/ or /dis.pa.ʁe.sɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | disparus /dis.pa.ʁy/ |
disparus /dis.pa.ʁy/ |
disparut /dis.pa.ʁy/ |
disparûmes /dis.pa.ʁym/ |
disparûtes /dis.pa.ʁyt/ |
disparurent /dis.pa.ʁyʁ/ | |
| future | disparaîtrai /dis.pa.ʁɛ.tʁe/ or /dis.pa.ʁe.tʁe/ |
disparaîtras /dis.pa.ʁɛ.tʁa/ or /dis.pa.ʁe.tʁa/ |
disparaîtra /dis.pa.ʁɛ.tʁa/ or /dis.pa.ʁe.tʁa/ |
disparaîtrons /dis.pa.ʁɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /dis.pa.ʁe.tʁɔ̃/ |
disparaîtrez /dis.pa.ʁɛ.tʁe/ or /dis.pa.ʁe.tʁe/ |
disparaîtront /dis.pa.ʁɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /dis.pa.ʁe.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | disparaîtrais /dis.pa.ʁɛ.tʁɛ/ or /dis.pa.ʁe.tʁɛ/ |
disparaîtrais /dis.pa.ʁɛ.tʁɛ/ or /dis.pa.ʁe.tʁɛ/ |
disparaîtrait /dis.pa.ʁɛ.tʁɛ/ or /dis.pa.ʁe.tʁɛ/ |
disparaîtrions /dis.pa.ʁɛ.tʁi.jɔ̃/ or /dis.pa.ʁe.tʁi.jɔ̃/ |
disparaîtriez /dis.pa.ʁɛ.tʁi.je/ or /dis.pa.ʁe.tʁi.je/ |
disparaîtraient /dis.pa.ʁɛ.tʁɛ/ or /dis.pa.ʁe.tʁɛ/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir or être + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir or être + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior2 | past historic of avoir or être + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future of avoir or être + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional of avoir or être + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | disparaisse /dis.pa.ʁɛs/ |
disparaisses /dis.pa.ʁɛs/ |
disparaisse /dis.pa.ʁɛs/ |
disparaissions /dis.pa.ʁɛ.sjɔ̃/ or /dis.pa.ʁe.sjɔ̃/ |
disparaissiez /dis.pa.ʁɛ.sje/ or /dis.pa.ʁe.sje/ |
disparaissent /dis.pa.ʁɛs/ |
| imperfect2 | disparusse /dis.pa.ʁys/ |
disparusses /dis.pa.ʁys/ |
disparût /dis.pa.ʁy/ |
disparussions /dis.pa.ʁy.sjɔ̃/ |
disparussiez /dis.pa.ʁy.sje/ |
disparussent /dis.pa.ʁys/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir or être + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir or être + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | disparais /dis.pa.ʁɛ/ |
— | disparaissons /dis.pa.ʁɛ.sɔ̃/ or /dis.pa.ʁe.sɔ̃/ |
disparaissez /dis.pa.ʁɛ.se/ or /dis.pa.ʁe.se/ |
— | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir or être + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir or être + past participle | simple imperative of avoir or être + 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). | |||||||
Derived terms
Related terms
Further reading
- “disparaître”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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