gésir
See also: gesir
French
Etymology
From Old French gesir, from Latin iacēre, jacēre, present active infinitive of iaceō, from Proto-Italic *jakēō. Cognate with Italian giacere, Spanish yacer, Portuguese jazer and Romanian zăcea.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʒe.ziʁ/
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Verb
gésir
- (intransitive, literary) to lie (to be in a horizontal position)
- (intransitive) to lie (to be left in a horizontal position)
- Ci-gît... (formula used on gravestones)
- Here lies...
- (intransitive) to be located
- (intransitive) to be buried, hidden
Usage notes
The circumflex on the ‘i’ in the third-person singular present indicative has been optional since the 1990 French spelling reforms; see gît (old spelling) and git (new spelling).
Conjugation
This is a defective verb, and is only conjugated in the present and imperfect indicative.
Conjugation of gésir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | gésir | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | — | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | gisant /ʒi.zɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | — | ||||||
| past participle | — | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | gis /ʒi/ | gis /ʒi/ | gît /ʒi/ | gisons /ʒi.zɔ̃/ | gisez /ʒi.ze/ | gisent /ʒiz/ |
| imperfect | gisais /ʒi.zɛ/ | gisais /ʒi.zɛ/ | gisait /ʒi.zɛ/ | gisions /ʒi.zjɔ̃/ | gisiez /ʒi.zje/ | gisaient /ʒi.zɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| future | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| conditional | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| (compound tenses) | present perfect | — | |||||
| pluperfect | — | ||||||
| past anterior2 | — | ||||||
| future perfect | — | ||||||
| conditional perfect | — | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| imperfect2 | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| (compound tenses) | past | — | |||||
| pluperfect2 | — | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| compound | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| 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
- gisant
- gisement
See also
- English: gist
Further reading
- “gésir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- gires, grise, grisé, Régis