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choisir
choisir
French
Verb
choisir
- to choose
- Je n'ai pas eu le temps de choisir.
- (obsolete) to perceive, distinguish
Conjugation
This is a regular verb of the second conjugation, like finir, nourrir, and most other verbs with infinitives ending in -ir. One salient feature of this conjugation is the repeated appearance of the infix -iss-.
Conjugation of choisir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | choisir | avoir choisi | |||||
| gerund | en choisissant | en ayant choisi | |||||
| present participle | choisissant /ʃwa.zi.sɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | choisi /ʃwa.zi/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | choisis /ʃwa.zi/ |
choisis /ʃwa.zi/ |
choisit /ʃwa.zi/ |
choisissons /ʃwa.zi.sɔ̃/ |
choisissez /ʃwa.zi.se/ |
choisissent /ʃwa.zis/ |
| imperfect | choisissais /ʃwa.zi.sɛ/ |
choisissais /ʃwa.zi.sɛ/ |
choisissait /ʃwa.zi.sɛ/ |
choisissions /ʃwa.zi.sjɔ̃/ |
choisissiez /ʃwa.zi.sje/ |
choisissaient /ʃwa.zi.sɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | choisis /ʃwa.zi/ |
choisis /ʃwa.zi/ |
choisit /ʃwa.zi/ |
choisîmes /ʃwa.zim/ |
choisîtes /ʃwa.zit/ |
choisirent /ʃwa.ziʁ/ |
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| future | choisirai /ʃwa.zi.ʁe/ |
choisiras /ʃwa.zi.ʁa/ |
choisira /ʃwa.zi.ʁa/ |
choisirons /ʃwa.zi.ʁɔ̃/ |
choisirez /ʃwa.zi.ʁe/ |
choisiront /ʃwa.zi.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | choisirais /ʃwa.zi.ʁɛ/ |
choisirais /ʃwa.zi.ʁɛ/ |
choisirait /ʃwa.zi.ʁɛ/ |
choisirions /ʃwa.zi.ʁjɔ̃/ |
choisiriez /ʃwa.zi.ʁje/ |
choisiraient /ʃwa.zi.ʁɛ/ |
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| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior1 | Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | choisisse /ʃwa.zis/ |
choisisses /ʃwa.zis/ |
choisisse /ʃwa.zis/ |
choisissions /ʃwa.zi.sjɔ̃/ |
choisissiez /ʃwa.zi.sje/ |
choisissent /ʃwa.zis/ |
| imperfect1 |
choisisse /ʃwa.zis/ |
choisisses /ʃwa.zis/ |
choisît /ʃwa.zi/ |
choisissions /ʃwa.zi.sjɔ̃/ |
choisissiez /ʃwa.zi.sje/ |
choisissent /ʃwa.zis/ |
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| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | choisis /ʃwa.zi/ |
— | choisissons /ʃwa.zi.sɔ̃/ |
choisissez /ʃwa.zi.se/ |
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| 1literary tenses | |||||||
Middle French
Etymology
From Old French choisir, coisir (“to differentiate, see distinctly”), from Frankish *kausjan (“to choose”), from Proto-Germanic *kauzijaną (“to choose, taste”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵews- (“to choose, taste”).
Verb
choisir
- to choose