partir conjugation: all tenses in French, with meaning

/paʁtiʁ/

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Translation

to leave, to go

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Word origin

From Latin partire ('to divide, share'); the modern sense 'to leave' developed from 'to part, separate oneself'. The English 'part' and 'depart' share this root.

Origin: Latin
Root: partire
English cognates: part, depart

Grammar

Verb type-ir irregular (3rd group)

Conjugation

Regular french-irregular conjugation. Pronouns: je, tu, il/elle, nous, vous, ils/elles.

Indicative

Person	Present	Imperfect	Past historic	Future	Conditional
je	pars	partais	partis	partirai	partirais
tu	pars	partais	partis	partiras	partirais
il/elle	part	partait	partit	partira	partirait
nous	partons	partions	partîmes	partirons	partirions
vous	partez	partiez	partîtes	partirez	partiriez
ils/elles	partent	partaient	partirent	partiront	partiraient

Subjunctive

Person	Present	Imperfect
je	parte	partisse
tu	partes	partisses
il/elle	parte	partît
nous	partions	partissions
vous	partiez	partissiez
ils/elles	partent	partissent

Imperative

Person	Affirmative
tu	pars
nous	partons
vous	partez

Non-finite

Gerund / present participle: partant
Past participle: parti · partie · partis · parties

Examples

We must leave very early to avoid the traffic.

Espagne .

My friends are leaving on holiday to Spain tomorrow.

From when are you available to start this new position with us?

We need to leave early to avoid heavy traffic.

She left without leaving an address or phone number.

se conjugue avec être aux temps composés : il est parti, nous sommes partis. Le participe passé s'accorde avec le sujet. Partir exprime un départ (du point de vue du lieu d'origine), tandis qu'aller exprime un mouvement vers une destination.

À partir de (from, starting from, as of) est une préposition temporelle ou spatiale très courante. En partir n'existe pas - on dit partir de. Laisser partir (to let go, to allow to leave) et faire partir (to send away) sont des causatifs. C'est parti ! (here we go!, off we go!, let's get started!) est une formule d'enthousiasme pour lancer une action collective.

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This word is taught in chapter 3, lesson 3: -ir verbs.