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encourir
encourir
French
Verb
encourir
- to incur (to expose oneself to something inconvenient)
- to run [the risk], to bring upon (something unfavourable)
- encourir le risque d'être rattrapé - run the risk of being caught
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 encourir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | encourir | avoir encouru | |||||
| gerund | en encourant | en ayant encouru | |||||
| present participle | encourant /ɑ̃.ku.ʁɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | encouru /ɑ̃.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 | encours /ɑ̃.kuʁ/ |
encours /ɑ̃.kuʁ/ |
encourt /ɑ̃.kuʁ/ |
encourons /ɑ̃.ku.ʁɔ̃/ |
encourez /ɑ̃.ku.ʁe/ |
encourent /ɑ̃.kuʁ/ |
| imperfect | encourais /ɑ̃.ku.ʁɛ/ |
encourais /ɑ̃.ku.ʁɛ/ |
encourait /ɑ̃.ku.ʁɛ/ |
encourions /ɑ̃.ku.ʁjɔ̃/ |
encouriez /ɑ̃.ku.ʁje/ |
encouraient /ɑ̃.ku.ʁɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | encourus /ɑ̃.ku.ʁy/ |
encourus /ɑ̃.ku.ʁy/ |
encourut /ɑ̃.ku.ʁy/ |
encourûmes /ɑ̃.ku.ʁym/ |
encourûtes /ɑ̃.ku.ʁyt/ |
encoururent /ɑ̃.ku.ʁyʁ/ |
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| future | encourrai /ɑ̃.ku.ʁe/ |
encourras /ɑ̃.ku.ʁa/ |
encourra /ɑ̃.ku.ʁa/ |
encourrons /ɑ̃.ku.ʁɔ̃/ |
encourrez /ɑ̃.ku.ʁe/ |
encourront /ɑ̃.ku.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | encourrais /ɑ̃.ku.ʁɛ/ |
encourrais /ɑ̃.ku.ʁɛ/ |
encourrait /ɑ̃.ku.ʁɛ/ |
encourrions /ɑ̃.ku.ʁjɔ̃/ |
encourriez /ɑ̃.ku.ʁje/ |
encourraient /ɑ̃.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 | encoure /ɑ̃.kuʁ/ |
encoures /ɑ̃.kuʁ/ |
encoure /ɑ̃.kuʁ/ |
encourions /ɑ̃.ku.ʁjɔ̃/ |
encouriez /ɑ̃.ku.ʁje/ |
encourent /ɑ̃.kuʁ/ |
| imperfect1 |
encourusse /ɑ̃.ku.ʁys/ |
encourusses /ɑ̃.ku.ʁys/ |
encourût /ɑ̃.ku.ʁy/ |
encourussions /ɑ̃.ku.ʁy.sjɔ̃/ |
encourussiez /ɑ̃.ku.ʁy.sje/ |
encourussent /ɑ̃.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 | – | |
| — | encours /ɑ̃.kuʁ/ |
— | encourons /ɑ̃.ku.ʁɔ̃/ |
encourez /ɑ̃.ku.ʁe/ |
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| 1literary tenses | |||||||
Quotations
- For usage examples of this term, see Citations:encourir.