Wiktionary

pleuvoir

French

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old French plovoir, from earlier pluveir, from Vulgar Latin *plovere (with a change in conjugation to *plovēre), from Classical Latin pluere.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /plø.vwaʁ/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -waʁ

Verb

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pleuvoir (impersonal)

  1. to rain

Conjugation

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This is a defective verb, only conjugated in the third-person. The third-person plural forms are only used figuratively.

Conjugation of pleuvoir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive simple pleuvoir
compound avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1 simple pleuvant
/plœ.vɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
past participle plu
/ply/
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle, on nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses) 		present — — pleut
/plø/ 		— — pleuvent
/plœv/
imperfect — — pleuvait
/plœ.vɛ/ 		— — pleuvaient
/plœ.vɛ/
past historic2 — — plut
/ply/ 		— — plurent
/plyʁ/
future — — pleuvra
/plœ.vʁa/ 		— — pleuvront
/plœ.vʁɔ̃/
conditional — — pleuvrait
/plœ.vʁɛ/ 		— — pleuvraient
/plœ.vʁɛ/
(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 — — pleuve
/plœv/ 		— — pleuvent
/plœv/
imperfect2 — — plût
/ply/ 		— — plussent
/plys/
(compound
tenses) 		past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — — — — — —
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).

Rarely, the inflections pleus/pleux, pleuvons, pleuvez, and pleuvras are found.

Derived terms

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Further reading

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