vernir
French
    
    Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): /vɛʁ.niʁ/
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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 vernir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | vernir | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | vernissant /vɛʁ.ni.sɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | verni /vɛʁ.ni/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | vernis /vɛʁ.ni/ | vernis /vɛʁ.ni/ | vernit /vɛʁ.ni/ | vernissons /vɛʁ.ni.sɔ̃/ | vernissez /vɛʁ.ni.se/ | vernissent /vɛʁ.nis/ | 
| imperfect | vernissais /vɛʁ.ni.sɛ/ | vernissais /vɛʁ.ni.sɛ/ | vernissait /vɛʁ.ni.sɛ/ | vernissions /vɛʁ.ni.sjɔ̃/ | vernissiez /vɛʁ.ni.sje/ | vernissaient /vɛʁ.ni.sɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | vernis /vɛʁ.ni/ | vernis /vɛʁ.ni/ | vernit /vɛʁ.ni/ | vernîmes /vɛʁ.nim/ | vernîtes /vɛʁ.nit/ | vernirent /vɛʁ.niʁ/ | |
| future | vernirai /vɛʁ.ni.ʁe/ | verniras /vɛʁ.ni.ʁa/ | vernira /vɛʁ.ni.ʁa/ | vernirons /vɛʁ.ni.ʁɔ̃/ | vernirez /vɛʁ.ni.ʁe/ | verniront /vɛʁ.ni.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | vernirais /vɛʁ.ni.ʁɛ/ | vernirais /vɛʁ.ni.ʁɛ/ | vernirait /vɛʁ.ni.ʁɛ/ | vernirions /vɛʁ.ni.ʁjɔ̃/ | verniriez /vɛʁ.ni.ʁje/ | verniraient /vɛʁ.ni.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 | vernisse /vɛʁ.nis/ | vernisses /vɛʁ.nis/ | vernisse /vɛʁ.nis/ | vernissions /vɛʁ.ni.sjɔ̃/ | vernissiez /vɛʁ.ni.sje/ | vernissent /vɛʁ.nis/ | 
| imperfect2 | vernisse /vɛʁ.nis/ | vernisses /vɛʁ.nis/ | vernît /vɛʁ.ni/ | vernissions /vɛʁ.ni.sjɔ̃/ | vernissiez /vɛʁ.ni.sje/ | vernissent /vɛʁ.nis/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | vernis /vɛʁ.ni/ | — | vernissons /vɛʁ.ni.sɔ̃/ | vernissez /vɛʁ.ni.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: 
 (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Further reading
    
- “vernir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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