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jouir
jouir
See also: jouïr
French
Verb
jouir
- (followed by the preposition de) to enjoy
- Il jouissait d'une santé à toute épreuve.
- (intransitive) to have an orgasm
- Elle m'a laissé jouir dans sa bouche.
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 jouir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | jouir | avoir joui | |||||
| gerund | en jouissant | en ayant joui | |||||
| present participle | jouissant /ʒwi.sɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | joui /ʒwi/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | jouis /ʒwi/ |
jouis /ʒwi/ |
jouit /ʒwi/ |
jouissons /ʒwi.sɔ̃/ |
jouissez /ʒwi.se/ |
jouissent /ʒwis/ |
| imperfect | jouissais /ʒwi.sɛ/ |
jouissais /ʒwi.sɛ/ |
jouissait /ʒwi.sɛ/ |
jouissions /ʒwi.sjɔ̃/ |
jouissiez /ʒwi.sje/ |
jouissaient /ʒwi.sɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | jouis /ʒwi/ |
jouis /ʒwi/ |
jouit /ʒwi/ |
jouîmes /ʒwim/ |
jouîtes /ʒwit/ |
jouirent /ʒwiʁ/ |
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| future | jouirai /ʒwi.ʁe/ |
jouiras /ʒwi.ʁa/ |
jouira /ʒwi.ʁa/ |
jouirons /ʒwi.ʁɔ̃/ |
jouirez /ʒwi.ʁe/ |
jouiront /ʒwi.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | jouirais /ʒwi.ʁɛ/ |
jouirais /ʒwi.ʁɛ/ |
jouirait /ʒwi.ʁɛ/ |
jouirions /ʒwi.ʁjɔ̃/ |
jouiriez /ʒwi.ʁje/ |
jouiraient /ʒwi.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 | jouisse /ʒwis/ |
jouisses /ʒwis/ |
jouisse /ʒwis/ |
jouissions /ʒwi.sjɔ̃/ |
jouissiez /ʒwi.sje/ |
jouissent /ʒwis/ |
| imperfect1 |
jouisse /ʒwis/ |
jouisses /ʒwis/ |
jouît /ʒwi/ |
jouissions /ʒwi.sjɔ̃/ |
jouissiez /ʒwi.sje/ |
jouissent /ʒwis/ |
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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 | – | |
| — | jouis /ʒwi/ |
— | jouissons /ʒwi.sɔ̃/ |
jouissez /ʒwi.se/ |
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