morir
Catalan
Etymology
Category:Catalan terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#MORIRInherited from Old CatalanCategory:Catalan terms inherited from Old Catalan#MORIRCategory:Catalan terms derived from Old Catalan#MORIR morir, from LatinCategory:Catalan terms inherited from Latin#MORIRCategory:Catalan terms derived from Latin#MORIR morīrī, variant of morī.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Central, Balearic) [muˈɾi]Category:Catalan terms with IPA pronunciation#MORIR
- IPA(key): (Valencia) [moˈɾiɾ]Category:Catalan terms with IPA pronunciation#MORIR
Category:Catalan terms with audio pronunciation#MORIRAudio (Catalonia): (file) - Rhymes: -i(ɾ)Category:Rhymes:Catalan/i(ɾ)#MORIRCategory:Rhymes:Catalan/i(ɾ)/2 syllables#MORIR
Verb
morir (first-person singular present moro, first-person singular preterite morí, past participle mort)Category:Catalan lemmas#MORIRCategory:Catalan verbs#MORIRCategory:Catalan third conjugation verbs#MORIRCategory:Catalan third conjugation verbs without -eix-#MORIRCategory:Catalan irregular verbs#MORIRCategory:Catalan entries with incorrect language header#MORIRCategory:Pages with entries#MORIRCategory:Pages with 11 entries#MORIR; root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /ɔ/
- to die
Conjugation
| infinitive | morir | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gerund | morint | ||||||
| past participle | masculine | feminine | |||||
| singular | mort | morta | |||||
| plural | morts | mortes | |||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | jo | tu | ell/ella vostè |
nosaltres nós |
vosaltres vós |
ells/elles vostès | |
| present | moro | mors | mor | morim | moriu | moren | |
| imperfect | moria | mories | moria | moríem | moríeu | morien | |
| future | moriré | moriràs | morirà | morirem | morireu | moriran | |
| preterite | morí | morires | morí | morírem | moríreu | moriren | |
| conditional | moriria | moriries | moriria | moriríem | moriríeu | moririen | |
| subjunctive | jo | tu | ell/ella vostè |
nosaltres nós |
vosaltres vós |
ells/elles vostès | |
| present | mori | moris | mori | morim | moriu | morin | |
| imperfect | morís | morissis | morís | moríssim | moríssiu | morissin | |
| imperative | — | tu | vostè | nosaltres | vosaltres vós |
vostès | |
| affirmative | — | mor | mori | morim | moriu | morin | |
| negative (no) | — | no moris | no mori | no morim | no moriu | no morin | |
Related terms
Further reading
- “morir”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
- “morir”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
- “morir” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “morir”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)
Franco-Provençal
Etymology
Inherited from LatinCategory:Franco-Provençal terms inherited from Latin#MORIRCategory:Franco-Provençal terms derived from Latin#MORIR morī(rī).
Verb
morirCategory:Franco-Provençal lemmas#MORIRCategory:Franco-Provençal verbs#MORIRCategory:Franco-Provençal entries with incorrect language header#MORIRCategory:Pages with entries#MORIRCategory:Pages with 11 entries#MORIR (ORB, broadCategory:ORB, broad#MORIR)
Conjugation
Conjugation of morir
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | morir | étre môrt | |||||
| gerund | morent | étent môrt | |||||
| auxiliary verb | étre | ||||||
| past participle | masculine | feminine | |||||
| singular | môrt | [Term?]Category:Franco-Provençal term requests#MORIR | |||||
| plural | [Term?]Category:Franco-Provençal term requests#MORIR | [Term?]Category:Franco-Provençal term requests#MORIR | |||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | ||
| indicative | jo | te | il | nos | vos | ils | |
| present | môro | môrs | môrt | morens | morids | môront | |
| imperfect | morien | morias | moriêt | morians | moriâds | moriant | |
| preterite | mori | moris | morit | morirons | morites, morirâds | moriront | |
| future | moriré | morirés | morirat | morirens | moriréds | moriront | |
| conditional | moriren | moririas | morirêt | moririans | moririâds | moririant | |
| compound tenses | present perfect | present indicative of étre + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative of étre + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior | preterite indicative of étre + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future indicative of étre + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional of étre + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que jo | que te | qu'il | que nos | que vos | qu'ils | |
| present | môro | môres | môre | morans | moriâds | môrant | |
| imperfect | morissen | morissias | morisse | morissians | morissiâds | morissant | |
| compound tenses | past | present subjunctive of étre + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect subjunctive of étre + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | — | te | — | nos | vos | — | |
| môrs | morens | morids | |||||
References
Further information
- AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 75: “morire” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
- ALF: Atlas Linguistique de la France – map 882 – on lig-tdcge.imag.fr
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “mŏrdĕre”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 6/3: Mobilis–Myxa, page 126
Italian
Verb
morir (apocopated)Category:Italian non-lemma forms#MORIRCategory:Italian verb forms#MORIRCategory:Italian entries with incorrect language header#MORIRCategory:Pages with entries#MORIRCategory:Pages with 11 entries#MORIR
Ladin
Alternative forms
Etymology
Category:Ladin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#MORIRInherited from LatinCategory:Ladin terms inherited from Latin#MORIRCategory:Ladin terms derived from Latin#MORIR morīrī, variant of morī.
Verb
morirCategory:Ladin lemmas#MORIRCategory:Ladin verbs#MORIRCategory:Ladin entries with incorrect language header#MORIRCategory:Pages with entries#MORIRCategory:Pages with 11 entries#MORIR
- to die
Conjugation
- Ladin conjugation varies from one region to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.
| infinitive | morir, morì | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| auxiliary verb | ester | gerund | — | |||
| past participle | mort | |||||
| person | singular | plural | ||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | |
| indicative | ie | tu | el / ela | nos | vos | ei / eles |
| present | muere | mueres | muer | morion | morieis | muer |
| imperfect | morive | morives | moriva | morivan | morivais | moriva |
| future | moriré | moriras | morirà | moriron | morireis | morirà |
| subjunctive | che ie | che tu | che el / ela | che nos | che vos | che ei / eles |
| present | muere | mueres | muere | morion | morieis | muere |
| imperfect | morisse | morisses | morissa | morissan | morissais | morissa |
| imperative | – | tu | – | nos | vos | – |
| — | muer | — | — | moride | — | |
Ladino
Verb
morir (Hebrew spelling מוריר)Category:Ladino lemmas#MORIRCategory:Ladino verbs#MORIRCategory:Ladino verbs in Latin script#MORIRCategory:Ladino entries with incorrect language header#MORIRCategory:Pages with entries#MORIRCategory:Pages with 11 entries#MORIR[1]
- alternative form of murir
References
Occitan
Alternative forms
- mourir (Mistralian spelling)
Etymology
Category:Occitan terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#MORIRInherited from Old OccitanCategory:Occitan terms inherited from Old Occitan#MORIRCategory:Occitan terms derived from Old Occitan#MORIR morir, from LatinCategory:Occitan terms inherited from Latin#MORIRCategory:Occitan terms derived from Latin#MORIR morīrī, variant of morī.
Pronunciation
Verb
morirCategory:Occitan lemmas#MORIRCategory:Occitan verbs#MORIRCategory:Occitan entries with incorrect language header#MORIRCategory:Pages with entries#MORIRCategory:Pages with 11 entries#MORIRCategory:Occitan second group verbs#MORIR
- to die
Conjugation
This verb needs an inflection-table template.
Category:Requests for inflections in Occitan verb entries#MORIRCategory:Requests for inflections in Occitan entries#MORIRRelated terms
Old French
Alternative forms
Etymology
Inherited from LatinCategory:Old French terms inherited from Latin#MORIRCategory:Old French terms derived from Latin#MORIR morīrī, variant of morī. The sense of "to kill" may have been back-formed from the Latin ancestor's deponent nature.
Pronunciation
Verb
morirCategory:Old French lemmas#MORIRCategory:Old French verbs#MORIRCategory:Old French entries with incorrect language header#MORIRCategory:Pages with entries#MORIRCategory:Pages with 11 entries#MORIR
- (intransitiveCategory:Old French intransitive verbs#MORIR) to die
- c. 1250, Marie de France, Guigemar:
- Kar ne se volt laissier murirCategory:Old French terms with quotations#MORIR
- Because he didn't want to let himself die
- (transitiveCategory:Old French transitive verbs#MORIR, rareCategory:Old French terms with rare senses#MORIR, takes avoir as an auxiliary) to kill
- 12th Century, Unknown, Raoul de Cambrai:
- Se l'avés mort il m'en poise forment.Category:Old French terms with quotations#MORIR
- If you have killed him, it will bother me greatly.
Conjugation
This verb conjugates as a third-group verb. This verb has a stressed present stem muer distinct from the unstressed stem mor, as well as other irregularities. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | morir | estre mort | |||||
| gerund | en morant | gerund of estre + past participle | |||||
| present participle | morant | ||||||
| past participle | mort | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | jo | tu | il | nos | vos | il | |
| simple tenses |
present | muir | muers | muert | morons | morez | muerent |
| imperfect | moroie, moreie | moroies, moreies | moroit, moreit | moriiens, moriens | moriiez, moriez | moroient, moreient | |
| preterite | morui, mori | morus, moris | moru, mori | morumes, morimes | morustes, moristes | morurent, morirent | |
| future | morrai | morras | morra | morrons | morroiz, morreiz, morrez | morront | |
| conditional | morroie, morreie | morroies, morreies | morroit, morreit | morriiens, morriens | morriiez, morriez | morroient, morreient | |
| compound tenses |
present perfect | present tense of estre + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect tense of estre + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior | preterite tense of estre + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future tense of estre + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional tense of estre + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que jo | que tu | qu’il | que nos | que vos | qu’il | |
| simple tenses |
present | muire, muere, muerge | muires, mueres, muerges | muire, muere, muerge | morons, muiriens, muirons, muerons, muergiens, muerjons | morez, muiriez, muerez, muergiez | muirent, muerent, muergent |
| imperfect | morusse, morisse | morusses, morisses | morust, morist | morussons, morussiens, morissons, morissiens | morussoiz, morussez, morussiez, morissoiz, morissez, morissiez | morussent, morissent | |
| compound tenses |
past | present subjunctive of estre + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect subjunctive of estre + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nos | vos | – | |
| — | muir | — | morons | morez | — | ||
Related terms
Descendants
Old Occitan
Etymology
Category:Old Occitan terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#MORIRInherited from LatinCategory:Old Occitan terms inherited from Latin#MORIRCategory:Old Occitan terms derived from Latin#MORIR morīrī, variant of morī.
Verb
morirCategory:Old Occitan lemmas#MORIRCategory:Old Occitan verbs#MORIRCategory:Old Occitan entries with incorrect language header#MORIRCategory:Pages with entries#MORIRCategory:Pages with 11 entries#MORIR
- to die
Related terms
Descendants
- Occitan: morir
References
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “mori”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 6/3: Mobilis–Myxa, page 132
Old Spanish
Alternative forms
Etymology
Category:Old Spanish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#MORIRInherited from LatinCategory:Old Spanish terms inherited from Latin#MORIRCategory:Old Spanish terms derived from Latin#MORIR morīrī, variant of morī. Cognate with Old Galician-Portuguese morrer, morer and Old French morir, murir.
Verb
morirCategory:Old Spanish lemmas#MORIRCategory:Old Spanish verbs#MORIRCategory:Old Spanish entries with incorrect language header#MORIRCategory:Pages with entries#MORIRCategory:Pages with 11 entries#MORIR
- (intransitiveCategory:Old Spanish intransitive verbs#MORIR) to die; to pass away (cease living)
- Antonym: bevir
- c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 54r:
- dixo ẏſaẏas a los menſageros q̃l embio el reẏ ezechias aſſi dizredes al nr̃o ſennor q̃ diz el criador Nõ temas delas menazas q̃ oiſt de los uaſſallos del reẏ de ſur. Afe yo trametre uiẽto ⁊ oyra tal palabra. por q̃stornara aſu tr̃a ⁊ ẏl fara morir aeſpada.Category:Old Spanish terms with quotations#MORIR
- Isaiah said the messengers sent to him by king Hezekiah, “You will tell our master that thus says the Creator, ‘Do not fear the threats you have heard from the servants of the king of the south. Lo, I will send wind and he will hear a rumor such that he will return to his land, and there he will be made to die by the sword.’”
Descendants
References
- Ralph Steele Boggs et al. (1946), “morir”, in Tentative Dictionary of Medieval Spanish, volume II, Chapel Hill, page 349
Spanish
Etymology
Category:Spanish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#MORIRInherited from Old SpanishCategory:Spanish terms inherited from Old Spanish#MORIRCategory:Spanish terms derived from Old Spanish#MORIR murir, morir, from LatinCategory:Spanish terms inherited from Latin#MORIRCategory:Spanish terms derived from Latin#MORIR morīrī, variant of morī. Cognate with Galician morrer, Ladino murir, and Portuguese morrer. Compare English mortify.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /moˈɾiɾ/ [moˈɾiɾ]Category:Spanish 2-syllable words#MORIRCategory:Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation#MORIR
Category:Spanish terms with audio pronunciation#MORIRAudio: (file) - Rhymes: -iɾCategory:Rhymes:Spanish/iɾ#MORIRCategory:Rhymes:Spanish/iɾ/2 syllables#MORIR
- Syllabification: mo‧rir
Verb
morir (first-person singular present muero, first-person singular preterite morí, past participle muerto)Category:Spanish lemmas#MORIRCategory:Spanish verbs#MORIRCategory:Spanish verbs ending in -ir#MORIRCategory:Spanish irregular verbs#MORIRCategory:Spanish verbs with o-ue-u alternation#MORIRCategory:Spanish entries with incorrect language header#MORIRCategory:Pages with entries#MORIRCategory:Pages with 11 entries#MORIR
- (intransitiveCategory:Spanish intransitive verbs#MORIR, sometimes reflexiveCategory:Spanish reflexive verbs#MORIR) to die
- Synonyms: estirar la pata, fallecer, morirse, palmar, irse, marchar, pasar, expirar, perecer, sucumbir, fenecer, finar, quedarse, apagarse, acabar, (colloquial) palmar, (colloquial) cascar, (colloquial) espichar, (colloquial) caer, (colloquial) sonar, (colloquial) petatearse, (colloquial) despichar, (colloquial) ñampiarse, (colloquial) jetearse, (colloquial) piantarse, (colloquial) pelarse, (vulgar) descoñetar
- Antonym: vivir
- La caballerosidad no ha muerto.
- Chivalry isn't dead.
- Un joven de trece años murió en un accidente aéreo.
- A thirteen-year-old boy died in a plane crash.
- (intransitiveCategory:Spanish intransitive verbs#MORIR, reflexiveCategory:Spanish reflexive verbs#MORIR, idiomaticCategory:Spanish idioms#MORIR) to be dying (for, to)
Usage notes
- The reflexive form of this verb, morirse, is more informal, while the non-reflexive form, morir, is more formal.
- Widely used figuratively, as in English:
- Me morí del aburrimiento ― I died of boredomCategory:Spanish terms with usage examples#MORIR
- Me morí del susto ― I died of frightCategory:Spanish terms with usage examples#MORIR
Conjugation
| infinitive | morir | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gerund | muriendo | ||||||
| past participle | masculine | feminine | |||||
| singular | muerto | muerta | |||||
| plural | muertos | muertas | |||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | ||
| indicative | yo | tú vos |
él/ella/ello usted |
nosotros nosotras |
vosotros vosotras |
ellos/ellas ustedes | |
| present | muero | muerestú morísvos |
muere | morimos | morís | mueren | |
| imperfect | moría | morías | moría | moríamos | moríais | morían | |
| preterite | morí | moriste | murió | morimos | moristeis | murieron | |
| future | moriré | morirás | morirá | moriremos | moriréis | morirán | |
| conditional | moriría | morirías | moriría | moriríamos | moriríais | morirían | |
| subjunctive | yo | tú vos |
él/ella/ello usted |
nosotros nosotras |
vosotros vosotras |
ellos/ellas ustedes | |
| present | muera | muerastú murásvos2 |
muera | muramos | muráis | mueran | |
| imperfect (ra) |
muriera | murieras | muriera | muriéramos | murierais | murieran | |
| imperfect (se) |
muriese | murieses | muriese | muriésemos | murieseis | muriesen | |
| future1 | muriere | murieres | muriere | muriéremos | muriereis | murieren | |
| imperative | — | tú vos |
usted | nosotros nosotras |
vosotros vosotras |
ustedes | |
| affirmative | mueretú morívos |
muera | muramos | morid | mueran | ||
| negative | no mueras | no muera | no muramos | no muráis | no mueran | ||
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.
Derived terms
Related terms
Further reading
- “morir”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
Venetan
Etymology
Category:Venetan terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#MORIRInherited from LatinCategory:Venetan terms inherited from Latin#MORIRCategory:Venetan terms derived from Latin#MORIR morīrī, variant of morī.
Verb
morirCategory:Venetan lemmas#MORIRCategory:Venetan verbs#MORIRCategory:Venetan entries with incorrect language header#MORIRCategory:Pages with entries#MORIRCategory:Pages with 11 entries#MORIR
Conjugation
* Venetan conjugation varies from one region to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.
| infinitive | morir | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| auxiliary verb | èser | gerund | moréndo | |||
| past participle | morto | |||||
| person | singular | plural | ||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | |
| indicative | mi | ti | eło / eła | noialtri / noialtre | voialtri / voialtre | łuri / łore |
| present | moriso | (te) morisi | (el/ła) morise | morimo | morì | (i/łe) morise |
| imperfect | morìa | (te) morivi | (el/ła) morìa | morìvimo | morivi | (i/łe) morìa |
| future | morirò | (te) morirè | (el/ła) morirà | morirémo | morirè | (i/łe) morirà |
| conditional | morirìa | (te) moririsi | (el/ła) morirìa | morirìsimo | moririsi | (i/łe) morirìa |
| subjunctive | che mi | che ti | che eło / eła | che noialtri / noialtre | che voialtri / voialtre | che łuri / łore |
| present | morisa | (te) morisi | (el/ła) morisa | morimo | morì | (i/łe) morisa |
| imperfect | morise | (te) morisi | (el/ła) morise | morisimo | morisi | (i/łe) morise |
| imperative | — | ti | eło / eła | noialtri / noialtre | voialtri / voialtre | łuri / łore |
| — | (te) morisi | (el/ła) morisa | morimo | morì | (i/łe) morisa | |