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survivre
survivre
French
Verb
survivre
- (intransitive) to survive
- (transitive, with à) to survive (an accident)
- (transitive, with à) to outlive
Conjugation
Conjugation of survivre (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | survivre | avoir survécu | |||||
| gerund | en survivant | en ayant survécu | |||||
| present participle | survivant /syʁ.vi.vɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | survécu /syʁ.ve.ky/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | survis /syʁ.vi/ |
survis /syʁ.vi/ |
survit /syʁ.vi/ |
survivons /syʁ.vi.vɔ̃/ |
survivez /syʁ.vi.ve/ |
survivent /syʁ.viv/ |
| imperfect | survivais /syʁ.vi.vɛ/ |
survivais /syʁ.vi.vɛ/ |
survivait /syʁ.vi.vɛ/ |
survivions /syʁ.vi.vjɔ̃/ |
surviviez /syʁ.vi.vje/ |
survivaient /syʁ.vi.vɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | survécus /syʁ.ve.ky/ |
survécus /syʁ.ve.ky/ |
survécut /syʁ.ve.ky/ |
survécûmes /syʁ.ve.kym/ |
survécûtes /syʁ.ve.kyt/ |
survécurent /syʁ.ve.kyʁ/ |
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| future | survivrai /syʁ.vi.vʁe/ |
survivras /syʁ.vi.vʁa/ |
survivra /syʁ.vi.vʁa/ |
survivrons /syʁ.vi.vʁɔ̃/ |
survivrez /syʁ.vi.vʁe/ |
survivront /syʁ.vi.vʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | survivrais /syʁ.vi.vʁɛ/ |
survivrais /syʁ.vi.vʁɛ/ |
survivrait /syʁ.vi.vʁɛ/ |
survivrions /syʁ.vi.vʁi.jɔ̃/ |
survivriez /syʁ.vi.vʁi.je/ |
survivraient /syʁ.vi.vʁɛ/ |
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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 | survive /syʁ.viv/ |
survives /syʁ.viv/ |
survive /syʁ.viv/ |
survivions /syʁ.vi.vjɔ̃/ |
surviviez /syʁ.vi.vje/ |
survivent /syʁ.viv/ |
| imperfect1 |
survécusse /syʁ.ve.kys/ |
survécusses /syʁ.ve.kys/ |
survécût /syʁ.ve.ky/ |
survécussions /syʁ.ve.ky.sjɔ̃/ |
survécussiez /syʁ.ve.ky.sje/ |
survécussent /syʁ.ve.kys/ |
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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 | – | |
| — | survis /syʁ.vi/ |
— | survivons /syʁ.vi.vɔ̃/ |
survivez /syʁ.vi.ve/ |
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| 1literary tenses | |||||||
Derived terms
Old French
Alternative forms
- sourvivre
Verb
survivre
Descendants
References
- (fr) Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (sourvivre, supplement)
- survivre on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub