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apparaître

appear

verb ah-pah-RETR Less Common

Also means

seem

Usage Note

Apparaître (also spelled apparaitre since the 1990 spelling reform) means to come into view or become evident, and in modern French it is usually conjugated with être in compound tenses (une étoile est apparue). The derived noun l'apparition covers both a sudden appearance and a ghostly vision. The impersonal il apparaît que means 'it turns out that' or 'it emerges that'.

Examples

"Une étoile apparaît dans le ciel."

Natural Translation

A star appears in the sky.

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