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vieillir
vieillir
French
Verb
vieillir
- (intransitive) to grow old, to age
- (transitive) to make (someone) look older
- (reflexive) to make oneself look older
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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 vieillir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | vieillir | avoir vieilli | |||||
| gerund | en vieillissant | en ayant vieilli | |||||
| present participle | vieillissant /vjɛ.ji.sɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | vieilli /vjɛ.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 | vieillis /vjɛ.ji/ |
vieillis /vjɛ.ji/ |
vieillit /vjɛ.ji/ |
vieillissons /vjɛ.ji.sɔ̃/ |
vieillissez /vjɛ.ji.se/ |
vieillissent /vjɛ.jis/ |
| imperfect | vieillissais /vjɛ.ji.sɛ/ |
vieillissais /vjɛ.ji.sɛ/ |
vieillissait /vjɛ.ji.sɛ/ |
vieillissions /vjɛ.ji.sjɔ̃/ |
vieillissiez /vjɛ.ji.sje/ |
vieillissaient /vjɛ.ji.sɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | vieillis /vjɛ.ji/ |
vieillis /vjɛ.ji/ |
vieillit /vjɛ.ji/ |
vieillîmes /vjɛ.jim/ |
vieillîtes /vjɛ.jit/ |
vieillirent /vjɛ.jiʁ/ |
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| future | vieillirai /vjɛ.ji.ʁe/ |
vieilliras /vjɛ.ji.ʁa/ |
vieillira /vjɛ.ji.ʁa/ |
vieillirons /vjɛ.ji.ʁɔ̃/ |
vieillirez /vjɛ.ji.ʁe/ |
vieilliront /vjɛ.ji.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | vieillirais /vjɛ.ji.ʁɛ/ |
vieillirais /vjɛ.ji.ʁɛ/ |
vieillirait /vjɛ.ji.ʁɛ/ |
vieillirions /vjɛ.ji.ʁjɔ̃/ |
vieilliriez /vjɛ.ji.ʁje/ |
vieilliraient /vjɛ.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 | vieillisse /vjɛ.jis/ |
vieillisses /vjɛ.jis/ |
vieillisse /vjɛ.jis/ |
vieillissions /vjɛ.ji.sjɔ̃/ |
vieillissiez /vjɛ.ji.sje/ |
vieillissent /vjɛ.jis/ |
| imperfect1 |
vieillisse /vjɛ.jis/ |
vieillisses /vjɛ.jis/ |
vieillît /vjɛ.ji/ |
vieillissions /vjɛ.ji.sjɔ̃/ |
vieillissiez /vjɛ.ji.sje/ |
vieillissent /vjɛ.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 | – | |
| — | vieillis /vjɛ.ji/ |
— | vieillissons /vjɛ.ji.sɔ̃/ |
vieillissez /vjɛ.ji.se/ |
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