circonscrire
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin circumscrībō.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁiʁ/
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Verb
circonscrire
- to circumscribe
Conjugation
Conjugation of circonscrire (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | circonscrire | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | circonscrivant /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.vɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | circonscrit /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) | present | circonscris /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi/ | circonscris /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi/ | circonscrit /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi/ | circonscrivons /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.vɔ̃/ | circonscrivez /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.ve/ | circonscrivent /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁiv/ |
imperfect | circonscrivais /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.vɛ/ | circonscrivais /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.vɛ/ | circonscrivait /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.vɛ/ | circonscrivions /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.vjɔ̃/ | circonscriviez /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.vje/ | circonscrivaient /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.vɛ/ | |
past historic2 | circonscrivis /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.vi/ | circonscrivis /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.vi/ | circonscrivit /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.vi/ | circonscrivîmes /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.vim/ | circonscrivîtes /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.vit/ | circonscrivirent /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.viʁ/ | |
future | circonscrirai /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.ʁe/ | circonscriras /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.ʁa/ | circonscrira /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.ʁa/ | circonscrirons /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.ʁɔ̃/ | circonscrirez /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.ʁe/ | circonscriront /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | circonscrirais /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.ʁɛ/ | circonscrirais /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.ʁɛ/ | circonscrirait /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.ʁɛ/ | circonscririons /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.ʁjɔ̃/ | circonscririez /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.ʁje/ | circonscriraient /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.ʁɛ/ | |
(compound tenses) | present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
(simple tenses) | present | circonscrive /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁiv/ | circonscrives /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁiv/ | circonscrive /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁiv/ | circonscrivions /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.vjɔ̃/ | circonscriviez /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.vje/ | circonscrivent /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁiv/ |
imperfect2 | circonscrivisse /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.vis/ | circonscrivisses /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.vis/ | circonscrivît /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.vi/ | circonscrivissions /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.vi.sjɔ̃/ | circonscrivissiez /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.vi.sje/ | circonscrivissent /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.vis/ | |
(compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | circonscris /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi/ | — | circonscrivons /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.vɔ̃/ | circonscrivez /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.ve/ | — | |
compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). |
Related terms
- circonscription
Further reading
- “circonscrire”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.