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prescrire
prescrire
French
Verb
prescrire
- to prescribe (a medication)
 
Conjugation
  Conjugation of prescrire (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | prescrire | avoir prescrit | |||||
| gerund | en prescrivant | en ayant prescrit | |||||
| present participle |  prescrivant /pʁɛs.kʁi.vɑ̃/  | 
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| past participle |  prescrit /pʁɛs.kʁi/  | 
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
|  simple tenses  | 
present |  prescris /pʁɛs.kʁi/  | 
 prescris /pʁɛs.kʁi/  | 
 prescrit /pʁɛs.kʁi/  | 
 prescrivons /pʁɛs.kʁi.vɔ̃/  | 
 prescrivez /pʁɛs.kʁi.ve/  | 
 prescrivent /pʁɛs.kʁiv/  | 
| imperfect |  prescrivais /pʁɛs.kʁi.vɛ/  | 
 prescrivais /pʁɛs.kʁi.vɛ/  | 
 prescrivait /pʁɛs.kʁi.vɛ/  | 
 prescrivions /pʁɛs.kʁi.vjɔ̃/  | 
 prescriviez /pʁɛs.kʁi.vje/  | 
 prescrivaient /pʁɛs.kʁi.vɛ/  | 
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| past historic1 |  prescrivis /pʁɛs.kʁi.vi/  | 
prescrivis /pʁɛs.kʁi.vi/  | 
prescrivit /pʁɛs.kʁi.vi/  | 
prescrivîmes /pʁɛs.kʁi.vim/  | 
prescrivîtes /pʁɛs.kʁi.vit/  | 
prescrivirent /pʁɛs.kʁi.viʁ/  | 
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| future |  prescrirai /pʁɛs.kʁi.ʁe/  | 
 prescriras /pʁɛs.kʁi.ʁa/  | 
 prescrira /pʁɛs.kʁi.ʁa/  | 
 prescrirons /pʁɛs.kʁi.ʁɔ̃/  | 
 prescrirez /pʁɛs.kʁi.ʁe/  | 
 prescriront /pʁɛs.kʁi.ʁɔ̃/  | 
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| conditional |  prescrirais /pʁɛs.kʁi.ʁɛ/  | 
 prescrirais /pʁɛs.kʁi.ʁɛ/  | 
 prescrirait /pʁɛs.kʁi.ʁɛ/  | 
 prescririons /pʁɛs.kʁi.ʁjɔ̃/  | 
 prescririez /pʁɛs.kʁi.ʁje/  | 
 prescriraient /pʁɛs.kʁi.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 |  prescrive /pʁɛs.kʁiv/  | 
 prescrives /pʁɛs.kʁiv/  | 
 prescrive /pʁɛs.kʁiv/  | 
 prescrivions /pʁɛs.kʁi.vjɔ̃/  | 
 prescriviez /pʁɛs.kʁi.vje/  | 
 prescrivent /pʁɛs.kʁiv/  | 
| imperfect1 | 
prescrivisse /pʁɛs.kʁi.vis/  | 
prescrivisses /pʁɛs.kʁi.vis/  | 
prescrivît /pʁɛs.kʁi.vi/  | 
prescrivissions /pʁɛs.kʁi.vi.sjɔ̃/  | 
prescrivissiez /pʁɛs.kʁi.vi.sje/  | 
prescrivissent /pʁɛs.kʁi.vis/  | 
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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 | – | |
| — |  prescris /pʁɛs.kʁi/  | 
— |  prescrivons /pʁɛs.kʁi.vɔ̃/  | 
 prescrivez /pʁɛs.kʁi.ve/  | 
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| 1literary tenses | |||||||