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jaillir
jaillir
French
Verb
jaillir
- (of liquid, fire, etc.) to spurt out, gush forth
- (of person, animal) to spring out
- (of tower, obstruction) to thrust up, to jut out
- (of idea) to emerge from
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 jaillir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | jaillir | avoir jailli | |||||
| gerund | en jaillissant | en ayant jailli | |||||
| present participle | jaillissant /ʒa.ji.sɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | jailli /ʒa.ji/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | jaillis /ʒa.ji/ |
jaillis /ʒa.ji/ |
jaillit /ʒa.ji/ |
jaillissons /ʒa.ji.sɔ̃/ |
jaillissez /ʒa.ji.se/ |
jaillissent /ʒa.jis/ |
| imperfect | jaillissais /ʒa.ji.sɛ/ |
jaillissais /ʒa.ji.sɛ/ |
jaillissait /ʒa.ji.sɛ/ |
jaillissions /ʒa.ji.sjɔ̃/ |
jaillissiez /ʒa.ji.sje/ |
jaillissaient /ʒa.ji.sɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | jaillis /ʒa.ji/ |
jaillis /ʒa.ji/ |
jaillit /ʒa.ji/ |
jaillîmes /ʒa.jim/ |
jaillîtes /ʒa.jit/ |
jaillirent /ʒa.jiʁ/ |
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| future | jaillirai /ʒa.ji.ʁe/ |
jailliras /ʒa.ji.ʁa/ |
jaillira /ʒa.ji.ʁa/ |
jaillirons /ʒa.ji.ʁɔ̃/ |
jaillirez /ʒa.ji.ʁe/ |
jailliront /ʒa.ji.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | jaillirais /ʒa.ji.ʁɛ/ |
jaillirais /ʒa.ji.ʁɛ/ |
jaillirait /ʒa.ji.ʁɛ/ |
jaillirions /ʒa.ji.ʁjɔ̃/ |
jailliriez /ʒa.ji.ʁje/ |
jailliraient /ʒa.ji.ʁɛ/ |
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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 | jaillisse /ʒa.jis/ |
jaillisses /ʒa.jis/ |
jaillisse /ʒa.jis/ |
jaillissions /ʒa.ji.sjɔ̃/ |
jaillissiez /ʒa.ji.sje/ |
jaillissent /ʒa.jis/ |
| imperfect1 |
jaillisse /ʒa.jis/ |
jaillisses /ʒa.jis/ |
jaillît /ʒa.ji/ |
jaillissions /ʒa.ji.sjɔ̃/ |
jaillissiez /ʒa.ji.sje/ |
jaillissent /ʒa.jis/ |
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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 | – | |
| — | jaillis /ʒa.ji/ |
— | jaillissons /ʒa.ji.sɔ̃/ |
jaillissez /ʒa.ji.se/ |
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| 1literary tenses | |||||||
Derived terms
Old French
Alternative forms
- galir (common)
- jalir (common)
Verb
jaillir
Descendants
References
- (fr) Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (jaillir)