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circonscrire
circonscrire
French
Verb
circonscrire
- to circumscribe (all meanings)
 
Conjugation
  Conjugation of circonscrire (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | circonscrire | avoir circonscrit | |||||
| gerund | en circonscrivant | en ayant circonscrit | |||||
| present participle |  circonscrivant /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.vɑ̃/  | 
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| past participle |  circonscrit /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi/  | 
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
|  simple tenses  | 
present |  circonscris /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi/  | 
 circonscris /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi/  | 
 circonscrit /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi/  | 
 circonscrivons /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.vɔ̃/  | 
 circonscrivez /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.ve/  | 
 circonscrivent /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁiv/  | 
| imperfect |  circonscrivais /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.vɛ/  | 
 circonscrivais /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.vɛ/  | 
 circonscrivait /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.vɛ/  | 
 circonscrivions /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.vjɔ̃/  | 
 circonscriviez /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.vje/  | 
 circonscrivaient /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.vɛ/  | 
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| past historic1 |  circonscrivis /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.vi/  | 
circonscrivis /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.vi/  | 
circonscrivit /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.vi/  | 
circonscrivîmes /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.vim/  | 
circonscrivîtes /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.vit/  | 
circonscrivirent /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.viʁ/  | 
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| future |  circonscrirai /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.ʁe/  | 
 circonscriras /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.ʁa/  | 
 circonscrira /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.ʁa/  | 
 circonscrirons /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.ʁɔ̃/  | 
 circonscrirez /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.ʁe/  | 
 circonscriront /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.ʁɔ̃/  | 
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| conditional |  circonscrirais /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.ʁɛ/  | 
 circonscrirais /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.ʁɛ/  | 
 circonscrirait /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.ʁɛ/  | 
 circonscririons /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.ʁjɔ̃/  | 
 circonscririez /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.ʁje/  | 
 circonscriraient /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.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 |  circonscrive /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁiv/  | 
 circonscrives /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁiv/  | 
 circonscrive /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁiv/  | 
 circonscrivions /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.vjɔ̃/  | 
 circonscriviez /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.vje/  | 
 circonscrivent /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁiv/  | 
| imperfect1 | 
circonscrivisse /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.vis/  | 
circonscrivisses /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.vis/  | 
circonscrivît /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.vi/  | 
circonscrivissions /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.vi.sjɔ̃/  | 
circonscrivissiez /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.vi.sje/  | 
circonscrivissent /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.vis/  | 
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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 | – | |
| — |  circonscris /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi/  | 
— |  circonscrivons /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.vɔ̃/  | 
 circonscrivez /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.ve/  | 
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| 1literary tenses | |||||||