apparaissons

Apparaissons is the first-person plural present indicative form of the French verb apparaître, meaning "we appear." It is used to describe something that becomes visible or comes into view, as well as to indicate that information or a situation has become evident. For example, Nous apparaissons sur le moniteur lorsque nous entrons en scène, or Les résultats apparaissent après l’analyse.

Etymology and related forms: apparaître comes from Old French aparaitre and ultimately from the Latin apparere, meaning to appear. The verb belongs to a family of Romance verbs with several related forms in other languages, such as apparaître in French, aparecer in Spanish, and apparire in Italian.

Conjugation and usage notes: In the present tense, the verb is irregular in the singular and regular in the plural besides some stem alternations: j’apparais, tu apparais, il/elle apparaît, nous apparaissons, vous apparaissez, ils/elles apparaissent. The verb is primarily intransitive, typically taking no direct object, though it can take prepositional complements or be used with impersonal constructions. It is common to combine it with de or que to discuss emergence or appearance of facts: Il apparaît que… (It appears that…). The form apparaissons specifically denotes that the subject group is the one that becomes visible or evident.

Usage in literature and speech: Apparaître and its present form apparaissons appear in everyday spoken French as well as in literature to convey emergence, revelation, or visibility. The term is also used metaphorically to describe ideas, trends, or phenomena that come to light.

See also: apparaître, apparaissant, apparition, émergence, révélation.