murir

See also: mûrir

French

Etymology

From mûr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /my.ʁiʁ/

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Verb

murir

1. to mature or ripen

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 murir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	murir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	murissant /my.ʁi.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		muri /my.ʁi/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	muris /my.ʁi/	muris /my.ʁi/	murit /my.ʁi/	murissons /my.ʁi.sɔ̃/	murissez /my.ʁi.se/	murissent /my.ʁis/
	imperfect	murissais /my.ʁi.sɛ/	murissais /my.ʁi.sɛ/	murissait /my.ʁi.sɛ/	murissions /my.ʁi.sjɔ̃/	murissiez /my.ʁi.sje/	murissaient /my.ʁi.sɛ/
	past historic2	muris /my.ʁi/	muris /my.ʁi/	murit /my.ʁi/	murîmes /my.ʁim/	murîtes /my.ʁit/	murirent /my.ʁiʁ/
	future	murirai /my.ʁi.ʁe/	muriras /my.ʁi.ʁa/	murira /my.ʁi.ʁa/	murirons /my.ʁi.ʁɔ̃/	murirez /my.ʁi.ʁe/	muriront /my.ʁi.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	murirais /my.ʁi.ʁɛ/	murirais /my.ʁi.ʁɛ/	murirait /my.ʁi.ʁɛ/	muririons /my.ʁi.ʁjɔ̃/	muririez /my.ʁi.ʁje/	muriraient /my.ʁi.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	murisse /my.ʁis/	murisses /my.ʁis/	murisse /my.ʁis/	murissions /my.ʁi.sjɔ̃/	murissiez /my.ʁi.sje/	murissent /my.ʁis/
	imperfect2	murisse /my.ʁis/	murisses /my.ʁis/	murît /my.ʁi/	murissions /my.ʁi.sjɔ̃/	murissiez /my.ʁi.sje/	murissent /my.ʁis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	muris /my.ʁi/	—	murissons /my.ʁi.sɔ̃/	murissez /my.ʁi.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

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