discourir
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin discurrere, present active infinitive of discurrō.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dis.ku.ʁiʁ/
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Verb
discourir
- (intransitive) to talk, discourse, hold forth
Conjugation
This verb is conjugated like other regular -ir verbs, except that in the conditional and future tenses an extra 'r' is added to the end of the stem and the past participle ends in -u. All verb ending in -courir are conjugated this way.
Conjugation of discourir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | discourir | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | discourant /dis.ku.ʁɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | discouru /dis.ku.ʁy/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) | present | discours /dis.kuʁ/ | discours /dis.kuʁ/ | discourt /dis.kuʁ/ | discourons /dis.ku.ʁɔ̃/ | discourez /dis.ku.ʁe/ | discourent /dis.kuʁ/ |
imperfect | discourais /dis.ku.ʁɛ/ | discourais /dis.ku.ʁɛ/ | discourait /dis.ku.ʁɛ/ | discourions /dis.ku.ʁjɔ̃/ | discouriez /dis.ku.ʁje/ | discouraient /dis.ku.ʁɛ/ | |
past historic2 | discourus /dis.ku.ʁy/ | discourus /dis.ku.ʁy/ | discourut /dis.ku.ʁy/ | discourûmes /dis.ku.ʁym/ | discourûtes /dis.ku.ʁyt/ | discoururent /dis.ku.ʁyʁ/ | |
future | discourrai /dis.kuʁ.ʁe/ | discourras /dis.kuʁ.ʁa/ | discourra /dis.kuʁ.ʁa/ | discourrons /dis.kuʁ.ʁɔ̃/ | discourrez /dis.kuʁ.ʁe/ | discourront /dis.kuʁ.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | discourrais /dis.kuʁ.ʁɛ/ | discourrais /dis.kuʁ.ʁɛ/ | discourrait /dis.kuʁ.ʁɛ/ | discourrions /dis.kuʁ.ʁjɔ̃/ | discourriez /dis.kuʁ.ʁje/ | discourraient /dis.kuʁ.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 | discoure /dis.kuʁ/ | discoures /dis.kuʁ/ | discoure /dis.kuʁ/ | discourions /dis.ku.ʁjɔ̃/ | discouriez /dis.ku.ʁje/ | discourent /dis.kuʁ/ |
imperfect2 | discourusse /dis.ku.ʁys/ | discourusses /dis.ku.ʁys/ | discourût /dis.ku.ʁy/ | discourussions /dis.ku.ʁy.sjɔ̃/ | discourussiez /dis.ku.ʁy.sje/ | discourussent /dis.ku.ʁys/ | |
(compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | discours /dis.kuʁ/ | — | discourons /dis.ku.ʁɔ̃/ | discourez /dis.ku.ʁe/ | — | |
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
- courir
- discours
Further reading
- “discourir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.