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sévir
sévir
See also: sevir
French
Verb
sévir
- to crack down, clamp down
- to rage (of war, storm etc.); to be rife (of disease, poverty etc.)
- to hold sway (of policy, belief)
Conjugation
This is a regular verb of the second conjugation, like finir, choisir, 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 sévir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | sévir | avoir sévi | |||||
| gerund | en sévissant | en ayant sévi | |||||
| present participle | sévissant /se.vi.sɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | sévi /se.vi/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | sévis /se.vi/ |
sévis /se.vi/ |
sévit /se.vi/ |
sévissons /se.vi.sɔ̃/ |
sévissez /se.vi.se/ |
sévissent /se.vis/ |
| imperfect | sévissais /se.vi.sɛ/ |
sévissais /se.vi.sɛ/ |
sévissait /se.vi.sɛ/ |
sévissions /se.vi.sjɔ̃/ |
sévissiez /se.vi.sje/ |
sévissaient /se.vi.sɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | sévis /se.vi/ |
sévis /se.vi/ |
sévit /se.vi/ |
sévîmes /se.vim/ |
sévîtes /se.vit/ |
sévirent /se.viʁ/ |
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| future | sévirai /se.vi.ʁe/ |
séviras /se.vi.ʁa/ |
sévira /se.vi.ʁa/ |
sévirons /se.vi.ʁɔ̃/ |
sévirez /se.vi.ʁe/ |
séviront /se.vi.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | sévirais /se.vi.ʁɛ/ |
sévirais /se.vi.ʁɛ/ |
sévirait /se.vi.ʁɛ/ |
sévirions /se.vi.ʁjɔ̃/ |
séviriez /se.vi.ʁje/ |
séviraient /se.vi.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 | sévisse /se.vis/ |
sévisses /se.vis/ |
sévisse /se.vis/ |
sévissions /se.vi.sjɔ̃/ |
sévissiez /se.vi.sje/ |
sévissent /se.vis/ |
| imperfect1 |
sévisse /se.vis/ |
sévisses /se.vis/ |
sévît /se.vi/ |
sévissions /se.vi.sjɔ̃/ |
sévissiez /se.vi.sje/ |
sévissent /se.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 | – | |
| — | sévis /se.vi/ |
— | sévissons /se.vi.sɔ̃/ |
sévissez /se.vi.se/ |
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