blettir

French

Etymology

From blet.

Pronunciation

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Verb

blettir

1. to overripen

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 blettir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	blettir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	blettissant /blɛ.ti.sɑ̃/ or /ble.ti.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		bletti /blɛ.ti/ or /ble.ti/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	blettis /blɛ.ti/ or /ble.ti/	blettis /blɛ.ti/ or /ble.ti/	blettit /blɛ.ti/ or /ble.ti/	blettissons /blɛ.ti.sɔ̃/ or /ble.ti.sɔ̃/	blettissez /blɛ.ti.se/ or /ble.ti.se/	blettissent /blɛ.tis/ or /ble.tis/
	imperfect	blettissais /blɛ.ti.sɛ/ or /ble.ti.sɛ/	blettissais /blɛ.ti.sɛ/ or /ble.ti.sɛ/	blettissait /blɛ.ti.sɛ/ or /ble.ti.sɛ/	blettissions /blɛ.ti.sjɔ̃/ or /ble.ti.sjɔ̃/	blettissiez /blɛ.ti.sje/ or /ble.ti.sje/	blettissaient /blɛ.ti.sɛ/ or /ble.ti.sɛ/
	past historic2	blettis /blɛ.ti/ or /ble.ti/	blettis /blɛ.ti/ or /ble.ti/	blettit /blɛ.ti/ or /ble.ti/	blettîmes /blɛ.tim/ or /ble.tim/	blettîtes /blɛ.tit/ or /ble.tit/	blettirent /blɛ.tiʁ/ or /ble.tiʁ/
	future	blettirai /blɛ.ti.ʁe/ or /ble.ti.ʁe/	blettiras /blɛ.ti.ʁa/ or /ble.ti.ʁa/	blettira /blɛ.ti.ʁa/ or /ble.ti.ʁa/	blettirons /blɛ.ti.ʁɔ̃/ or /ble.ti.ʁɔ̃/	blettirez /blɛ.ti.ʁe/ or /ble.ti.ʁe/	blettiront /blɛ.ti.ʁɔ̃/ or /ble.ti.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	blettirais /blɛ.ti.ʁɛ/ or /ble.ti.ʁɛ/	blettirais /blɛ.ti.ʁɛ/ or /ble.ti.ʁɛ/	blettirait /blɛ.ti.ʁɛ/ or /ble.ti.ʁɛ/	blettirions /blɛ.ti.ʁjɔ̃/ or /ble.ti.ʁjɔ̃/	blettiriez /blɛ.ti.ʁje/ or /ble.ti.ʁje/	blettiraient /blɛ.ti.ʁɛ/ or /ble.ti.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	blettisse /blɛ.tis/ or /ble.tis/	blettisses /blɛ.tis/ or /ble.tis/	blettisse /blɛ.tis/ or /ble.tis/	blettissions /blɛ.ti.sjɔ̃/ or /ble.ti.sjɔ̃/	blettissiez /blɛ.ti.sje/ or /ble.ti.sje/	blettissent /blɛ.tis/ or /ble.tis/
	imperfect2	blettisse /blɛ.tis/ or /ble.tis/	blettisses /blɛ.tis/ or /ble.tis/	blettît /blɛ.ti/ or /ble.ti/	blettissions /blɛ.ti.sjɔ̃/ or /ble.ti.sjɔ̃/	blettissiez /blɛ.ti.sje/ or /ble.ti.sje/	blettissent /blɛ.tis/ or /ble.tis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	blettis /blɛ.ti/ or /ble.ti/	—	blettissons /blɛ.ti.sɔ̃/ or /ble.ti.sɔ̃/	blettissez /blɛ.ti.se/ or /ble.ti.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).

Further reading

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

Icelandic

Noun

blettir

1. indefinite nominative plural of blettur