expier

French

Etymology

From Latin expiāre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛk.spje/

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Verb

expier

1. (transitive) to expiate, to make amends for, atone for

Conjugation

Conjugation of expier (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	expier
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	expiant /ɛk.spjɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		expié /ɛk.spje/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	expie /ɛk.spi/	expies /ɛk.spi/	expie /ɛk.spi/	expions /ɛk.spjɔ̃/	expiez /ɛk.spje/	expient /ɛk.spi/
	imperfect	expiais /ɛk.spjɛ/	expiais /ɛk.spjɛ/	expiait /ɛk.spjɛ/	expiions /ɛk.spi.jɔ̃/	expiiez /ɛk.spi.je/	expiaient /ɛk.spjɛ/
	past historic2	expiai /ɛk.spje/	expias /ɛk.spja/	expia /ɛk.spja/	expiâmes /ɛk.spjam/	expiâtes /ɛk.spjat/	expièrent /ɛk.spjɛʁ/
	future	expierai /ɛk.spi.ʁe/	expieras /ɛk.spi.ʁa/	expiera /ɛk.spi.ʁa/	expierons /ɛk.spi.ʁɔ̃/	expierez /ɛk.spi.ʁe/	expieront /ɛk.spi.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	expierais /ɛk.spi.ʁɛ/	expierais /ɛk.spi.ʁɛ/	expierait /ɛk.spi.ʁɛ/	expierions /ɛk.spi.ʁjɔ̃/	expieriez /ɛk.spi.ʁje/	expieraient /ɛk.spi.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	expie /ɛk.spi/	expies /ɛk.spi/	expie /ɛk.spi/	expiions /ɛk.spi.jɔ̃/	expiiez /ɛk.spi.je/	expient /ɛk.spi/
	imperfect2	expiasse /ɛk.spjas/	expiasses /ɛk.spjas/	expiât /ɛk.spja/	expiassions /ɛk.spja.sjɔ̃/	expiassiez /ɛk.spja.sje/	expiassent /ɛk.spjas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	expie /ɛk.spi/	—	expions /ɛk.spjɔ̃/	expiez /ɛk.spje/	—
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

• expiation
• expiatoire

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• expire, expiré

Latin

Verb

expier

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of expiō