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saisir
saisir
French
Verb
saisir
- to take hold of; to grab
- to seize, to take (an illegal product), to capture
- to grasp mentally; understand
- (computing) to capture (screen or data)
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 saisir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | saisir | avoir saisi | |||||
| gerund | en saisissant | en ayant saisi | |||||
| present participle | saisissant /sɛ.zi.sɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | saisi /sɛ.zi/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | saisis /sɛ.zi/ |
saisis /sɛ.zi/ |
saisit /sɛ.zi/ |
saisissons /sɛ.zi.sɔ̃/ |
saisissez /sɛ.zi.se/ |
saisissent /sɛ.zis/ |
| imperfect | saisissais /sɛ.zi.sɛ/ |
saisissais /sɛ.zi.sɛ/ |
saisissait /sɛ.zi.sɛ/ |
saisissions /sɛ.zi.sjɔ̃/ |
saisissiez /sɛ.zi.sje/ |
saisissaient /sɛ.zi.sɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | saisis /sɛ.zi/ |
saisis /sɛ.zi/ |
saisit /sɛ.zi/ |
saisîmes /sɛ.zim/ |
saisîtes /sɛ.zit/ |
saisirent /sɛ.ziʁ/ |
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| future | saisirai /sɛ.zi.ʁe/ |
saisiras /sɛ.zi.ʁa/ |
saisira /sɛ.zi.ʁa/ |
saisirons /sɛ.zi.ʁɔ̃/ |
saisirez /sɛ.zi.ʁe/ |
saisiront /sɛ.zi.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | saisirais /sɛ.zi.ʁɛ/ |
saisirais /sɛ.zi.ʁɛ/ |
saisirait /sɛ.zi.ʁɛ/ |
saisirions /sɛ.zi.ʁjɔ̃/ |
saisiriez /sɛ.zi.ʁje/ |
saisiraient /sɛ.zi.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 | saisisse /sɛ.zis/ |
saisisses /sɛ.zis/ |
saisisse /sɛ.zis/ |
saisissions /sɛ.zi.sjɔ̃/ |
saisissiez /sɛ.zi.sje/ |
saisissent /sɛ.zis/ |
| imperfect1 |
saisisse /sɛ.zis/ |
saisisses /sɛ.zis/ |
saisît /sɛ.zi/ |
saisissions /sɛ.zi.sjɔ̃/ |
saisissiez /sɛ.zi.sje/ |
saisissent /sɛ.zis/ |
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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 | – | |
| — | saisis /sɛ.zi/ |
— | saisissons /sɛ.zi.sɔ̃/ |
saisissez /sɛ.zi.se/ |
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| 1literary tenses | |||||||