parier

See also: parièr

French

Alternative forms

• riépa (Verlan)

Etymology

From a combination of Old French perier (“to be part of a pair, be equal, associate with”) (from per (“pair”)) and Old French pairier (“to mate, couple”) (from paire), remodelled after Latin pariare (“to make equal, be part of a pair”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa.ʁje/

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Verb

parier

1. (rare) to mate, couple
2. to bet (make a guess about the outcome of an event)
   • 1968, Gérard Bourgeois, Jean-Max Rivière, “Le diable est anglais”, performed by Brigitte Bardot:

     Je te parie que le diable est anglais / Et tu voudrais bien savoir comment je le sais

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Conjugation

Conjugation of parier (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	parier
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	pariant /pa.ʁjɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		parié /pa.ʁje/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	parie /pa.ʁi/	paries /pa.ʁi/	parie /pa.ʁi/	parions /pa.ʁjɔ̃/	pariez /pa.ʁje/	parient /pa.ʁi/
	imperfect	pariais /pa.ʁjɛ/	pariais /pa.ʁjɛ/	pariait /pa.ʁjɛ/	pariions /pa.ʁi.jɔ̃/	pariiez /pa.ʁi.je/	pariaient /pa.ʁjɛ/
	past historic2	pariai /pa.ʁje/	parias /pa.ʁja/	paria /pa.ʁja/	pariâmes /pa.ʁjam/	pariâtes /pa.ʁjat/	parièrent /pa.ʁjɛʁ/
	future	parierai /pa.ʁi.ʁe/	parieras /pa.ʁi.ʁa/	pariera /pa.ʁi.ʁa/	parierons /pa.ʁi.ʁɔ̃/	parierez /pa.ʁi.ʁe/	parieront /pa.ʁi.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	parierais /pa.ʁi.ʁɛ/	parierais /pa.ʁi.ʁɛ/	parierait /pa.ʁi.ʁɛ/	parierions /pa.ʁi.ʁjɔ̃/	parieriez /pa.ʁi.ʁje/	parieraient /pa.ʁi.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	parie /pa.ʁi/	paries /pa.ʁi/	parie /pa.ʁi/	pariions /pa.ʁi.jɔ̃/	pariiez /pa.ʁi.je/	parient /pa.ʁi/
	imperfect2	pariasse /pa.ʁjas/	pariasses /pa.ʁjas/	pariât /pa.ʁja/	pariassions /pa.ʁja.sjɔ̃/	pariassiez /pa.ʁja.sje/	pariassent /pa.ʁjas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	parie /pa.ʁi/	—	parions /pa.ʁjɔ̃/	pariez /pa.ʁje/	—
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

• pari

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• périra, praire, priera, ripera

German

Pronunciation

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Verb

parier

1. singular imperative of parieren

Latin

Verb

parier

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of pariō, pariāre (“to equalize”)