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concourir
concourir
French
Verb
concourir
- to compete, to contend
- (mathematics) to converge
Conjugation
This verb is conjugated like other regular -ir verbs, except that in the conditional and future tenses an extra ‘r’ is added to the end of the stem and the past participle ends in -u. All verb ending in -courir are conjugated this way.
Conjugation of concourir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | concourir | avoir concouru | |||||
| gerund | en concourant | en ayant concouru | |||||
| present participle | concourant /kɔ̃.ku.ʁɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | concouru /kɔ̃.ku.ʁy/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | concours /kɔ̃.kuʁ/ |
concours /kɔ̃.kuʁ/ |
concourt /kɔ̃.kuʁ/ |
concourons /kɔ̃.ku.ʁɔ̃/ |
concourez /kɔ̃.ku.ʁe/ |
concourent /kɔ̃.kuʁ/ |
| imperfect | concourais /kɔ̃.ku.ʁɛ/ |
concourais /kɔ̃.ku.ʁɛ/ |
concourait /kɔ̃.ku.ʁɛ/ |
concourions /kɔ̃.ku.ʁjɔ̃/ |
concouriez /kɔ̃.ku.ʁje/ |
concouraient /kɔ̃.ku.ʁɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | concourus /kɔ̃.ku.ʁy/ |
concourus /kɔ̃.ku.ʁy/ |
concourut /kɔ̃.ku.ʁy/ |
concourûmes /kɔ̃.ku.ʁym/ |
concourûtes /kɔ̃.ku.ʁyt/ |
concoururent /kɔ̃.ku.ʁyʁ/ |
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| future | concourrai /kɔ̃.ku.ʁe/ |
concourras /kɔ̃.ku.ʁa/ |
concourra /kɔ̃.ku.ʁa/ |
concourrons /kɔ̃.ku.ʁɔ̃/ |
concourrez /kɔ̃.ku.ʁe/ |
concourront /kɔ̃.ku.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | concourrais /kɔ̃.ku.ʁɛ/ |
concourrais /kɔ̃.ku.ʁɛ/ |
concourrait /kɔ̃.ku.ʁɛ/ |
concourrions /kɔ̃.ku.ʁjɔ̃/ |
concourriez /kɔ̃.ku.ʁje/ |
concourraient /kɔ̃.ku.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 | concoure /kɔ̃.kuʁ/ |
concoures /kɔ̃.kuʁ/ |
concoure /kɔ̃.kuʁ/ |
concourions /kɔ̃.ku.ʁjɔ̃/ |
concouriez /kɔ̃.ku.ʁje/ |
concourent /kɔ̃.kuʁ/ |
| imperfect1 |
concourusse /kɔ̃.ku.ʁys/ |
concourusses /kɔ̃.ku.ʁys/ |
concourût /kɔ̃.ku.ʁy/ |
concourussions /kɔ̃.ku.ʁy.sjɔ̃/ |
concourussiez /kɔ̃.ku.ʁy.sje/ |
concourussent /kɔ̃.ku.ʁys/ |
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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 | – | |
| — | concours /kɔ̃.kuʁ/ |
— | concourons /kɔ̃.ku.ʁɔ̃/ |
concourez /kɔ̃.ku.ʁe/ |
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