parcourir
French
Etymology
From par- + courir, based on Latin percurro, percurrere.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /paʁ.ku.ʁiʁ/
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Verb
parcourir
- to go through, to pass through
- to read through, to skim
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 parcourir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | parcourir | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | parcourant /paʁ.ku.ʁɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | parcouru /paʁ.ku.ʁy/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) | present | parcours /paʁ.kuʁ/ | parcours /paʁ.kuʁ/ | parcourt /paʁ.kuʁ/ | parcourons /paʁ.ku.ʁɔ̃/ | parcourez /paʁ.ku.ʁe/ | parcourent /paʁ.kuʁ/ |
imperfect | parcourais /paʁ.ku.ʁɛ/ | parcourais /paʁ.ku.ʁɛ/ | parcourait /paʁ.ku.ʁɛ/ | parcourions /paʁ.ku.ʁjɔ̃/ | parcouriez /paʁ.ku.ʁje/ | parcouraient /paʁ.ku.ʁɛ/ | |
past historic2 | parcourus /paʁ.ku.ʁy/ | parcourus /paʁ.ku.ʁy/ | parcourut /paʁ.ku.ʁy/ | parcourûmes /paʁ.ku.ʁym/ | parcourûtes /paʁ.ku.ʁyt/ | parcoururent /paʁ.ku.ʁyʁ/ | |
future | parcourrai /paʁ.kuʁ.ʁe/ | parcourras /paʁ.kuʁ.ʁa/ | parcourra /paʁ.kuʁ.ʁa/ | parcourrons /paʁ.kuʁ.ʁɔ̃/ | parcourrez /paʁ.kuʁ.ʁe/ | parcourront /paʁ.kuʁ.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | parcourrais /paʁ.kuʁ.ʁɛ/ | parcourrais /paʁ.kuʁ.ʁɛ/ | parcourrait /paʁ.kuʁ.ʁɛ/ | parcourrions /paʁ.kuʁ.ʁjɔ̃/ | parcourriez /paʁ.kuʁ.ʁje/ | parcourraient /paʁ.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 | parcoure /paʁ.kuʁ/ | parcoures /paʁ.kuʁ/ | parcoure /paʁ.kuʁ/ | parcourions /paʁ.ku.ʁjɔ̃/ | parcouriez /paʁ.ku.ʁje/ | parcourent /paʁ.kuʁ/ |
imperfect2 | parcourusse /paʁ.ku.ʁys/ | parcourusses /paʁ.ku.ʁys/ | parcourût /paʁ.ku.ʁy/ | parcourussions /paʁ.ku.ʁy.sjɔ̃/ | parcourussiez /paʁ.ku.ʁy.sje/ | parcourussent /paʁ.ku.ʁys/ | |
(compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | parcours /paʁ.kuʁ/ | — | parcourons /paʁ.ku.ʁɔ̃/ | parcourez /paʁ.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
Further reading
- “parcourir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.