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disparaître
disparaître
See also: disparaitre
French
Alternative forms
Verb
disparaître
- to disappear
- (video games) to despawn
Related terms
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)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | disparaître | avoir disparu | |||||
| gerund | en disparaissant | en ayant disparu | |||||
| present participle | disparaissant /dis.pa.ʁɛ.sɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | disparu /dis.pa.ʁy/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | disparais /dis.pa.ʁɛ/ |
disparais /dis.pa.ʁɛ/ |
disparaît /dis.pa.ʁɛ/ |
disparaissons /dis.pa.ʁɛ.sɔ̃/ |
disparaissez /dis.pa.ʁɛ.se/ |
disparaissent /dis.pa.ʁɛs/ |
| imperfect | disparaissais /dis.pa.ʁɛ.sɛ/ |
disparaissais /dis.pa.ʁɛ.sɛ/ |
disparaissait /dis.pa.ʁɛ.sɛ/ |
disparaissions /dis.pa.ʁɛ.sjɔ̃/ |
disparaissiez /dis.pa.ʁɛ.sje/ |
disparaissaient /dis.pa.ʁɛ.sɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | disparus /dis.pa.ʁy/ |
disparus /dis.pa.ʁy/ |
disparut /dis.pa.ʁy/ |
disparûmes /dis.pa.ʁym/ |
disparûtes /dis.pa.ʁyt/ |
disparurent /dis.pa.ʁyʁ/ |
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| future | disparaîtrai /dis.pa.ʁɛ.tʁe/ |
disparaîtras /dis.pa.ʁɛ.tʁa/ |
disparaîtra /dis.pa.ʁɛ.tʁa/ |
disparaîtrons /dis.pa.ʁɛ.tʁɔ̃/ |
disparaîtrez /dis.pa.ʁɛ.tʁe/ |
disparaîtront /dis.pa.ʁɛ.tʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | disparaîtrais /dis.pa.ʁɛ.tʁɛ/ |
disparaîtrais /dis.pa.ʁɛ.tʁɛ/ |
disparaîtrait /dis.pa.ʁɛ.tʁɛ/ |
disparaîtrions /dis.pa.ʁɛ.tʁi.jɔ̃/ |
disparaîtriez /dis.pa.ʁɛ.tʁi.je/ |
disparaîtraient /dis.pa.ʁɛ.tʁɛ/ |
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| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior1 | Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | disparaisse /dis.pa.ʁɛs/ |
disparaisses /dis.pa.ʁɛs/ |
disparaisse /dis.pa.ʁɛs/ |
disparaissions /dis.pa.ʁɛ.sjɔ̃/ |
disparaissiez /dis.pa.ʁɛ.sje/ |
disparaissent /dis.pa.ʁɛs/ |
| imperfect1 |
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/ |
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| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | disparais /dis.pa.ʁɛ/ |
— | disparaissons /dis.pa.ʁɛ.sɔ̃/ |
disparaissez /dis.pa.ʁɛ.se/ |
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| 1literary tenses | |||||||