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fournir
fournir
French
Verb
fournir
- to supply, to provide
- La boulangerie fournit mon restaurant en pain.
- The bakery supplies my restaurant with bread.
- La boulangerie fournit mon restaurant en pain.
- to put in
- Fournir de l'effort.
- Put in some effort.
- Fournir de l'effort.
- (card games) To follow suit
- (slang) To poke, to shaft, to hump; to have sex
- J'ai fourni ta mère.
- I shafted your mother.
- J'ai fourni ta mère.
Derived terms
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 fournir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | fournir | avoir fourni | |||||
| gerund | en fournissant | en ayant fourni | |||||
| present participle | fournissant /fuʁ.ni.sɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | fourni /fuʁ.ni/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | fournis /fuʁ.ni/ |
fournis /fuʁ.ni/ |
fournit /fuʁ.ni/ |
fournissons /fuʁ.ni.sɔ̃/ |
fournissez /fuʁ.ni.se/ |
fournissent /fuʁ.nis/ |
| imperfect | fournissais /fuʁ.ni.sɛ/ |
fournissais /fuʁ.ni.sɛ/ |
fournissait /fuʁ.ni.sɛ/ |
fournissions /fuʁ.ni.sjɔ̃/ |
fournissiez /fuʁ.ni.sje/ |
fournissaient /fuʁ.ni.sɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | fournis /fuʁ.ni/ |
fournis /fuʁ.ni/ |
fournit /fuʁ.ni/ |
fournîmes /fuʁ.nim/ |
fournîtes /fuʁ.nit/ |
fournirent /fuʁ.niʁ/ |
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| future | fournirai /fuʁ.ni.ʁe/ |
fourniras /fuʁ.ni.ʁa/ |
fournira /fuʁ.ni.ʁa/ |
fournirons /fuʁ.ni.ʁɔ̃/ |
fournirez /fuʁ.ni.ʁe/ |
fourniront /fuʁ.ni.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | fournirais /fuʁ.ni.ʁɛ/ |
fournirais /fuʁ.ni.ʁɛ/ |
fournirait /fuʁ.ni.ʁɛ/ |
fournirions /fuʁ.ni.ʁjɔ̃/ |
fourniriez /fuʁ.ni.ʁje/ |
fourniraient /fuʁ.ni.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 | fournisse /fuʁ.nis/ |
fournisses /fuʁ.nis/ |
fournisse /fuʁ.nis/ |
fournissions /fuʁ.ni.sjɔ̃/ |
fournissiez /fuʁ.ni.sje/ |
fournissent /fuʁ.nis/ |
| imperfect1 |
fournisse /fuʁ.nis/ |
fournisses /fuʁ.nis/ |
fournît /fuʁ.ni/ |
fournissions /fuʁ.ni.sjɔ̃/ |
fournissiez /fuʁ.ni.sje/ |
fournissent /fuʁ.nis/ |
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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 | – | |
| — | fournis /fuʁ.ni/ |
— | fournissons /fuʁ.ni.sɔ̃/ |
fournissez /fuʁ.ni.se/ |
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