jaunir

French

Etymology

From jaune +‎ -ir.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʒo.niʁ/

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Verb

jaunir

1. (intransitive) to go yellow, to turn yellow
   1. (of bananas) to ripen
2. (transitive) to make yellow

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 jaunir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	jaunir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	jaunissant /ʒo.ni.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		jauni /ʒo.ni/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	jaunis /ʒo.ni/	jaunis /ʒo.ni/	jaunit /ʒo.ni/	jaunissons /ʒo.ni.sɔ̃/	jaunissez /ʒo.ni.se/	jaunissent /ʒo.nis/
	imperfect	jaunissais /ʒo.ni.sɛ/	jaunissais /ʒo.ni.sɛ/	jaunissait /ʒo.ni.sɛ/	jaunissions /ʒo.ni.sjɔ̃/	jaunissiez /ʒo.ni.sje/	jaunissaient /ʒo.ni.sɛ/
	past historic2	jaunis /ʒo.ni/	jaunis /ʒo.ni/	jaunit /ʒo.ni/	jaunîmes /ʒo.nim/	jaunîtes /ʒo.nit/	jaunirent /ʒo.niʁ/
	future	jaunirai /ʒo.ni.ʁe/	jauniras /ʒo.ni.ʁa/	jaunira /ʒo.ni.ʁa/	jaunirons /ʒo.ni.ʁɔ̃/	jaunirez /ʒo.ni.ʁe/	jauniront /ʒo.ni.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	jaunirais /ʒo.ni.ʁɛ/	jaunirais /ʒo.ni.ʁɛ/	jaunirait /ʒo.ni.ʁɛ/	jaunirions /ʒo.ni.ʁjɔ̃/	jauniriez /ʒo.ni.ʁje/	jauniraient /ʒo.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	jaunisse /ʒo.nis/	jaunisses /ʒo.nis/	jaunisse /ʒo.nis/	jaunissions /ʒo.ni.sjɔ̃/	jaunissiez /ʒo.ni.sje/	jaunissent /ʒo.nis/
	imperfect2	jaunisse /ʒo.nis/	jaunisses /ʒo.nis/	jaunît /ʒo.ni/	jaunissions /ʒo.ni.sjɔ̃/	jaunissiez /ʒo.ni.sje/	jaunissent /ʒo.nis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	jaunis /ʒo.ni/	—	jaunissons /ʒo.ni.sɔ̃/	jaunissez /ʒo.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: 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

• jaunissage
• jaunissure

Further reading

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