transparaître

See also: transparaitre

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁɛtʁ/

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Verb

transparaître

1. to show through (of light etc.)
2. to become apparent, to show

Conjugation

This verb is one of a fairly small group of -re verbs that are all conjugated the same way. They are unlike other verb groups in that the 'i' is given a circumflex before a 't'.

Conjugation of transparaître (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	transparaître
	compound	avoir past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	transparaissant /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁɛ.sɑ̃/ or /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁe.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant past participle
past participle		transparu /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁy/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	transparais /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁɛ/	transparais /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁɛ/	transparaît /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁɛ/	transparaissons /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁɛ.sɔ̃/ or /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁe.sɔ̃/	transparaissez /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁɛ.se/ or /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁe.se/	transparaissent /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁɛs/
	imperfect	transparaissais /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁɛ.sɛ/ or /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁe.sɛ/	transparaissais /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁɛ.sɛ/ or /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁe.sɛ/	transparaissait /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁɛ.sɛ/ or /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁe.sɛ/	transparaissions /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁɛ.sjɔ̃/ or /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁe.sjɔ̃/	transparaissiez /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁɛ.sje/ or /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁe.sje/	transparaissaient /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁɛ.sɛ/ or /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁe.sɛ/
	past historic2	transparus /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁy/	transparus /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁy/	transparut /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁy/	transparûmes /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁym/	transparûtes /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁyt/	transparurent /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁyʁ/
	future	transparaîtrai /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁɛ.tʁe/ or /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁe.tʁe/	transparaîtras /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁɛ.tʁa/ or /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁe.tʁa/	transparaîtra /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁɛ.tʁa/ or /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁe.tʁa/	transparaîtrons /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁe.tʁɔ̃/	transparaîtrez /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁɛ.tʁe/ or /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁe.tʁe/	transparaîtront /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁe.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	transparaîtrais /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁɛ.tʁɛ/ or /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁe.tʁɛ/	transparaîtrais /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁɛ.tʁɛ/ or /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁe.tʁɛ/	transparaîtrait /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁɛ.tʁɛ/ or /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁe.tʁɛ/	transparaîtrions /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁɛ.tʁi.jɔ̃/ or /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁe.tʁi.jɔ̃/	transparaîtriez /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁɛ.tʁi.je/ or /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁe.tʁi.je/	transparaîtraient /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁɛ.tʁɛ/ or /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁe.tʁɛ/
(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	transparaisse /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁɛs/	transparaisses /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁɛs/	transparaisse /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁɛs/	transparaissions /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁɛ.sjɔ̃/ or /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁe.sjɔ̃/	transparaissiez /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁɛ.sje/ or /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁe.sje/	transparaissent /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁɛs/
	imperfect2	transparusse /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁys/	transparusses /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁys/	transparût /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁy/	transparussions /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁy.sjɔ̃/	transparussiez /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁy.sje/	transparussent /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁys/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	transparais /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁɛ/	—	transparaissons /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁɛ.sɔ̃/ or /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁe.sɔ̃/	transparaissez /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁɛ.se/ or /tʁɑ̃s.pa.ʁe.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

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