verdir

French

Etymology

From Old French verdir (12th c.), possibly inherited from Vulgar Latin *vir(i)dire, an alteration of Classical Latin viridēscere. Compare Italian inverdire, archaic Spanish enverdir (alongside enverdecer), Romanian înverzi. Equivalent to vert +‎ -ir (the -t in vert being due to final devoicing).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɛʁ.diʁ/

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Verb

verdir

1. to turn green

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 verdir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	verdir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	verdissant /vɛʁ.di.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		verdi /vɛʁ.di/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	verdis /vɛʁ.di/	verdis /vɛʁ.di/	verdit /vɛʁ.di/	verdissons /vɛʁ.di.sɔ̃/	verdissez /vɛʁ.di.se/	verdissent /vɛʁ.dis/
	imperfect	verdissais /vɛʁ.di.sɛ/	verdissais /vɛʁ.di.sɛ/	verdissait /vɛʁ.di.sɛ/	verdissions /vɛʁ.di.sjɔ̃/	verdissiez /vɛʁ.di.sje/	verdissaient /vɛʁ.di.sɛ/
	past historic2	verdis /vɛʁ.di/	verdis /vɛʁ.di/	verdit /vɛʁ.di/	verdîmes /vɛʁ.dim/	verdîtes /vɛʁ.dit/	verdirent /vɛʁ.diʁ/
	future	verdirai /vɛʁ.di.ʁe/	verdiras /vɛʁ.di.ʁa/	verdira /vɛʁ.di.ʁa/	verdirons /vɛʁ.di.ʁɔ̃/	verdirez /vɛʁ.di.ʁe/	verdiront /vɛʁ.di.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	verdirais /vɛʁ.di.ʁɛ/	verdirais /vɛʁ.di.ʁɛ/	verdirait /vɛʁ.di.ʁɛ/	verdirions /vɛʁ.di.ʁjɔ̃/	verdiriez /vɛʁ.di.ʁje/	verdiraient /vɛʁ.di.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	verdisse /vɛʁ.dis/	verdisses /vɛʁ.dis/	verdisse /vɛʁ.dis/	verdissions /vɛʁ.di.sjɔ̃/	verdissiez /vɛʁ.di.sje/	verdissent /vɛʁ.dis/
	imperfect2	verdisse /vɛʁ.dis/	verdisses /vɛʁ.dis/	verdît /vɛʁ.di/	verdissions /vɛʁ.di.sjɔ̃/	verdissiez /vɛʁ.di.sje/	verdissent /vɛʁ.dis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	verdis /vɛʁ.di/	—	verdissons /vɛʁ.di.sɔ̃/	verdissez /vɛʁ.di.se/	—
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: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Related terms

• vert
• verdissement

Further reading

• “verdir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• driver