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saurir
saurir
French
Verb
saurir
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 saurir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | saurir | avoir sauri | |||||
| gerund | en saurissant | en ayant sauri | |||||
| present participle | saurissant /so.ʁi.sɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | sauri /so.ʁi/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | sauris /so.ʁi/ |
sauris /so.ʁi/ |
saurit /so.ʁi/ |
saurissons /so.ʁi.sɔ̃/ |
saurissez /so.ʁi.se/ |
saurissent /so.ʁis/ |
| imperfect | saurissais /so.ʁi.sɛ/ |
saurissais /so.ʁi.sɛ/ |
saurissait /so.ʁi.sɛ/ |
saurissions /so.ʁi.sjɔ̃/ |
saurissiez /so.ʁi.sje/ |
saurissaient /so.ʁi.sɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | sauris /so.ʁi/ |
sauris /so.ʁi/ |
saurit /so.ʁi/ |
saurîmes /so.ʁim/ |
saurîtes /so.ʁit/ |
saurirent /so.ʁiʁ/ |
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| future | saurirai /so.ʁi.ʁe/ |
sauriras /so.ʁi.ʁa/ |
saurira /so.ʁi.ʁa/ |
saurirons /so.ʁi.ʁɔ̃/ |
saurirez /so.ʁi.ʁe/ |
sauriront /so.ʁi.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | saurirais /so.ʁi.ʁɛ/ |
saurirais /so.ʁi.ʁɛ/ |
saurirait /so.ʁi.ʁɛ/ |
sauririons /so.ʁi.ʁjɔ̃/ |
sauririez /so.ʁi.ʁje/ |
sauriraient /so.ʁi.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 | saurisse /so.ʁis/ |
saurisses /so.ʁis/ |
saurisse /so.ʁis/ |
saurissions /so.ʁi.sjɔ̃/ |
saurissiez /so.ʁi.sje/ |
saurissent /so.ʁis/ |
| imperfect1 |
saurisse /so.ʁis/ |
saurisses /so.ʁis/ |
saurît /so.ʁi/ |
saurissions /so.ʁi.sjɔ̃/ |
saurissiez /so.ʁi.sje/ |
saurissent /so.ʁis/ |
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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 | – | |
| — | sauris /so.ʁi/ |
— | saurissons /so.ʁi.sɔ̃/ |
saurissez /so.ʁi.se/ |
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| 1literary tenses | |||||||