expirer
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -aɪəɹə(ɹ)
Noun
expirer (plural expirers)
- One who or that which expires.
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin exspīrāre (“to expire”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɛk.spi.ʁe/
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Verb
expirer
- (transitive) to breathe out
- (intransitive) to expire, run out
- (intransitive) to pass away (die)
Conjugation
Conjugation of expirer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | expirer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | expirant /ɛk.spi.ʁɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | expiré /ɛk.spi.ʁe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | expire /ɛk.spiʁ/ |
expires /ɛk.spiʁ/ |
expire /ɛk.spiʁ/ |
expirons /ɛk.spi.ʁɔ̃/ |
expirez /ɛk.spi.ʁe/ |
expirent /ɛk.spiʁ/ |
| imperfect | expirais /ɛk.spi.ʁɛ/ |
expirais /ɛk.spi.ʁɛ/ |
expirait /ɛk.spi.ʁɛ/ |
expirions /ɛk.spi.ʁjɔ̃/ |
expiriez /ɛk.spi.ʁje/ |
expiraient /ɛk.spi.ʁɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | expirai /ɛk.spi.ʁe/ |
expiras /ɛk.spi.ʁa/ |
expira /ɛk.spi.ʁa/ |
expirâmes /ɛk.spi.ʁam/ |
expirâtes /ɛk.spi.ʁat/ |
expirèrent /ɛk.spi.ʁɛʁ/ | |
| future | expirerai /ɛk.spi.ʁə.ʁe/ |
expireras /ɛk.spi.ʁə.ʁa/ |
expirera /ɛk.spi.ʁə.ʁa/ |
expirerons /ɛk.spi.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ |
expirerez /ɛk.spi.ʁə.ʁe/ |
expireront /ɛk.spi.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | expirerais /ɛk.spi.ʁə.ʁɛ/ |
expirerais /ɛk.spi.ʁə.ʁɛ/ |
expirerait /ɛk.spi.ʁə.ʁɛ/ |
expirerions /ɛk.spi.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
expireriez /ɛk.spi.ʁə.ʁje/ |
expireraient /ɛk.spi.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 | expire /ɛk.spiʁ/ |
expires /ɛk.spiʁ/ |
expire /ɛk.spiʁ/ |
expirions /ɛk.spi.ʁjɔ̃/ |
expiriez /ɛk.spi.ʁje/ |
expirent /ɛk.spiʁ/ |
| imperfect2 | expirasse /ɛk.spi.ʁas/ |
expirasses /ɛk.spi.ʁas/ |
expirât /ɛk.spi.ʁa/ |
expirassions /ɛk.spi.ʁa.sjɔ̃/ |
expirassiez /ɛk.spi.ʁa.sje/ |
expirassent /ɛk.spi.ʁas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | expire /ɛk.spiʁ/ |
— | expirons /ɛk.spi.ʁɔ̃/ |
expirez /ɛk.spi.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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Related terms
Further reading
- “expirer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
Verb
expīrer
- first-person singular present passive subjunctive of expīrō