pressentir
French
Etymology
pré- + sentir
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pʁe.sɑ̃.tiʁ/
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Verb
pressentir
- to have a premonition
- to foresee (mysteriously)
Conjugation
This is one of a fairly large group of irregular -ir verbs that are all conjugated the same way. Other members of this group include sortir and dormir. The most significant difference between these verbs' conjugation and that of the regular -ir verbs is that these verbs' conjugation does not use the infix -iss-. Further, this conjugation has the forms (je, tu) pressens and (il) pressent in the present indicative and imperative, whereas a regular -ir verb would have *pressentis and *pressentit (as in the past historic).
Conjugation of pressentir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | pressentir | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | pressentant /pʁe.sɑ̃.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | pressenti /pʁe.sɑ̃.ti/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | pressens /pʁe.sɑ̃/ | pressens /pʁe.sɑ̃/ | pressent /pʁe.sɑ̃/ | pressentons /pʁe.sɑ̃.tɔ̃/ | pressentez /pʁe.sɑ̃.te/ | pressentent /pʁe.sɑ̃t/ |
| imperfect | pressentais /pʁe.sɑ̃.tɛ/ | pressentais /pʁe.sɑ̃.tɛ/ | pressentait /pʁe.sɑ̃.tɛ/ | pressentions /pʁe.sɑ̃.tjɔ̃/ | pressentiez /pʁe.sɑ̃.tje/ | pressentaient /pʁe.sɑ̃.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | pressentis /pʁe.sɑ̃.ti/ | pressentis /pʁe.sɑ̃.ti/ | pressentit /pʁe.sɑ̃.ti/ | pressentîmes /pʁe.sɑ̃.tim/ | pressentîtes /pʁe.sɑ̃.tit/ | pressentirent /pʁe.sɑ̃.tiʁ/ | |
| future | pressentirai /pʁe.sɑ̃.ti.ʁe/ | pressentiras /pʁe.sɑ̃.ti.ʁa/ | pressentira /pʁe.sɑ̃.ti.ʁa/ | pressentirons /pʁe.sɑ̃.ti.ʁɔ̃/ | pressentirez /pʁe.sɑ̃.ti.ʁe/ | pressentiront /pʁe.sɑ̃.ti.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | pressentirais /pʁe.sɑ̃.ti.ʁɛ/ | pressentirais /pʁe.sɑ̃.ti.ʁɛ/ | pressentirait /pʁe.sɑ̃.ti.ʁɛ/ | pressentirions /pʁe.sɑ̃.ti.ʁjɔ̃/ | pressentiriez /pʁe.sɑ̃.ti.ʁje/ | pressentiraient /pʁe.sɑ̃.ti.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 | pressente /pʁe.sɑ̃t/ | pressentes /pʁe.sɑ̃t/ | pressente /pʁe.sɑ̃t/ | pressentions /pʁe.sɑ̃.tjɔ̃/ | pressentiez /pʁe.sɑ̃.tje/ | pressentent /pʁe.sɑ̃t/ |
| imperfect2 | pressentisse /pʁe.sɑ̃.tis/ | pressentisses /pʁe.sɑ̃.tis/ | pressentît /pʁe.sɑ̃.ti/ | pressentissions /pʁe.sɑ̃.ti.sjɔ̃/ | pressentissiez /pʁe.sɑ̃.ti.sje/ | pressentissent /pʁe.sɑ̃.tis/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | pressens /pʁe.sɑ̃/ | — | pressentons /pʁe.sɑ̃.tɔ̃/ | pressentez /pʁe.sɑ̃.te/ | — | |
| 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). | |||||||
Derived terms
- pressentiment
Further reading
- “pressentir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- reprissent
Portuguese
Verb
pressentir (first-person singular present pressinto, third-person singular present pressente, first-person singular preterite pressenti, past participle pressentido)
- to sense, feel (have a presentment)
- to predict
Conjugation
Conjugation of pressentir (i-e alternation in present singular) (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)
| Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First-person (eu) | Second-person (tu) | Third-person (ele / ela / você) | First-person (nós) | Second-person (vós) | Third-person (eles / elas / vocês) | |
| Infinitive | ||||||
| Impersonal | pressentir | |||||
| Personal | pressentir | pressentires | pressentir | pressentirmos | pressentirdes | pressentirem |
| Gerund | ||||||
| pressentindo | ||||||
| Past participle | ||||||
| Masculine | pressentido | pressentidos | ||||
| Feminine | pressentida | pressentidas | ||||
| Indicative | ||||||
| Present | pressinto | pressentes | pressente | pressentimos | pressentis | pressentem |
| Imperfect | pressentia | pressentias | pressentia | pressentíamos | pressentíeis | pressentiam |
| Preterite | pressenti | pressentiste | pressentiu | pressentimos | pressentistes | pressentiram |
| Pluperfect | pressentira | pressentiras | pressentira | pressentíramos | pressentíreis | pressentiram |
| Future | pressentirei | pressentirás | pressentirá | pressentiremos | pressentireis | pressentirão |
| Conditional | ||||||
| pressentiria | pressentirias | pressentiria | pressentiríamos | pressentiríeis | pressentiriam | |
| Subjunctive | ||||||
| Present | pressinta | pressintas | pressinta | pressintamos | pressintais | pressintam |
| Imperfect | pressentisse | pressentisses | pressentisse | pressentíssemos | pressentísseis | pressentissem |
| Future | pressentir | pressentires | pressentir | pressentirmos | pressentirdes | pressentirem |
| Imperative | ||||||
| Affirmative | pressente | pressinta | pressintamos | pressenti | pressintam | |
| Negative (não) | não pressintas | não pressinta | não pressintamos | não pressintais | não pressintam | |