offrir

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French ofrir, from Vulgar Latin *offerīre, from Latin offerre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔ.fʁiʁ/

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Verb

offrir

1. to offer; to provide

   La tente n’offre donc que très peu d’abri aux membres d’équipage qui assurent la veille en surface.

   The tent doesn't offer, therefore, very much shelter to the members of the team who keep watch on the surface.

2. to give as a gift
3. (reflexive) to buy for oneself
4. (reflexive) to treat oneself
5. (reflexive) to open oneself up to (someone)

Conjugation

This verb is conjugated like ouvrir and souffrir. It is conjugated like a regular -er verb in the present and imperfect indicative, present subjunctive, imperative, and present participle; it is conjugated like a regular -ir verb in the infinitive, future indicative, conditional, past historic, and imperfect subjunctive; and its past participle offert is irregular.

Conjugation of offrir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	offrir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	offrant /ɔ.fʁɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		offert /ɔ.fɛʁ/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	offre /ɔfʁ/	offres /ɔfʁ/	offre /ɔfʁ/	offrons /ɔ.fʁɔ̃/	offrez /ɔ.fʁe/	offrent /ɔfʁ/
	imperfect	offrais /ɔ.fʁɛ/	offrais /ɔ.fʁɛ/	offrait /ɔ.fʁɛ/	offrions /ɔ.fʁi.jɔ̃/	offriez /ɔ.fʁi.je/	offraient /ɔ.fʁɛ/
	past historic2	offris /ɔ.fʁi/	offris /ɔ.fʁi/	offrit /ɔ.fʁi/	offrîmes /ɔ.fʁim/	offrîtes /ɔ.fʁit/	offrirent /ɔ.fʁiʁ/
	future	offrirai /ɔ.fʁi.ʁe/	offriras /ɔ.fʁi.ʁa/	offrira /ɔ.fʁi.ʁa/	offrirons /ɔ.fʁi.ʁɔ̃/	offrirez /ɔ.fʁi.ʁe/	offriront /ɔ.fʁi.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	offrirais /ɔ.fʁi.ʁɛ/	offrirais /ɔ.fʁi.ʁɛ/	offrirait /ɔ.fʁi.ʁɛ/	offririons /ɔ.fʁi.ʁjɔ̃/	offririez /ɔ.fʁi.ʁje/	offriraient /ɔ.fʁi.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	offre /ɔfʁ/	offres /ɔfʁ/	offre /ɔfʁ/	offrions /ɔ.fʁi.jɔ̃/	offriez /ɔ.fʁi.je/	offrent /ɔfʁ/
	imperfect2	offrisse /ɔ.fʁis/	offrisses /ɔ.fʁis/	offrît /ɔ.fʁi/	offrissions /ɔ.fʁi.sjɔ̃/	offrissiez /ɔ.fʁi.sje/	offrissent /ɔ.fʁis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	offre /ɔfʁ/	—	offrons /ɔ.fʁɔ̃/	offrez /ɔ.fʁe/	—
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).

Derived terms

• s’offrir en spectacle

Further reading

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

Italian

Verb

offrir (apocopated)

1. Apocopic form of offrire

Romansch

Alternative forms

• ofrir (Sutsilvan)
• offereir (Surmiran)

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *offerīre, from Latin offerre.

Verb

offrir

1. (Sursilvan, Rumantsch Grischun, Puter, Vallader) to offer

Conjugation

    Conjugation of offrir (Sursilvan)

infinitive			offrir
gerund			offrend
past participle			offriu
	singular			plural
	1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
indicative	jeu	ti	el/ella	nus	vus	els/ellas
present	offreschel	offreschas	offrescha	offrin	offris	offreschan
imperfect	offrevel	offrevas	offreva	offrevan	offrevas	offrevan
future	vegnel a offrir	vegns a offrir	vegn a offrir	vegnin a offrir	vegnis a offrir	vegnan a offrir
conditional	jeu	ti	el/ella	nus	vus	els/ellas
direct present	offress	offresses	offress	offressen	offresses	offressen
indirect present	offressi	offressies	offressi	offressien	offressies	offressien
direct future	vegness a offrir	vegnesses a offrir	vegness a offrir	vegnessen a offrir	vegnesses a offrir	vegnessen a offrir
indirect future	vegnessi a offrir	vegnessies a offrir	vegnessi a offrir	vegnessien a offrir	vegnessies a offrir	vegnessien a offrir
subjunctive	che jeu	che ti	ch'el/ch'ella	che nus	che vus	ch'els/ch'ellas
present	offreschi	offreschies	offreschi	offrîen	offrîes	offreschien
past	offrevi	offrevies	offrevi	offrevien	offrevies	offrevien
future	vegni a offrir	vegnies a offrir	vegni a offrir	vegnîen a offrir	vegnîes a offrir	vegnien a offrir
imperative	—	ti	—	—	vus	—
		offrescha			offri

    Conjugation of offrir (Grischun)

infinitive			offrir
gerund			offrind
past participle			offrì, offrida
	singular			plural
	1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
indicative	jeu	ti	el/ella	nus	vus	els/ellas
present	offr, offresch	offras, offreschas	offra, offrescha	offrain	offrais	offran, offreschan
imperfect	offriva	offrivas	offriva	offrivan	offrivas	offrivan
future	vegnel a offrir	vegns a offrir	vegn a offrir	vegnin a offrir	vegnis a offrir	vegnan a offrir
conditional	jeu	ti	el/ella	nus	vus	els/ellas
present	offriss	offrisses	offriss	offrissen	offrisses	offrissen
future	vegness a offrir	vegnesses a offrir	vegness a offrir	vegnessen a offrir	vegnesses a offrir	vegnessen a offrir
subjunctive	che jeu	che ti	ch'el/ch'ella	che nus	che vus	ch'els/ch'ellas
present	offria, offreschia	offrias, offreschias	offria, offreschia	offrian	offrias	offrian, offreschian
future	vegni a offrir	vegnies a offrir	vegni a offrir	vegnîen a offrir	vegnîes a offrir	vegnien a offrir
imperative	—	ti	—	—	vus	—
		offra, offrescha			offri