s'en sortir
French
Etymology
se sortir de
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /s‿ɑ̃ sɔʁ.tiʁ/
Verb
s'en sortir
- to overcome a difficult situation; to manage
- Tu t'en sors ? ― Can you handle it?
- to come out of a situation; to get out; to escape a fate
- Personne ne s'en sort vivant ― Nobody gets out alive
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 partir 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) sors and (il) sort in the present indicative and imperative, whereas a regular -ir verb would have *sortis and *sortit (as in the past historic).
Conjugation of s'en sortir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| present participle | s'en sortant /sã sɔʁ.tɑ̃/ | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| past participle | sorti /sɔʁ.ti/ | ||||||
| infinitive | |||||||
| simple | s'en sortir | ||||||
| compound | s'en être + past participle | ||||||
| gerund1 | |||||||
| simple | s'en sortant /sã sɔʁ.tɑ̃/ | ||||||
| compound | s'en étant + past participle | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | m'en sors /mã sɔʁ/ | t'en sors /tã sɔʁ/ | s'en sort /sã sɔʁ/ | nous en sortons /nu.z‿ã sɔʁ.tɔ̃/ | vous en sortez /vu.z‿ã sɔʁ.te/ | s'en sortent /sã sɔʁt/ |
| imperfect | m'en sortais /mã sɔʁ.tɛ/ | t'en sortais /tã sɔʁ.tɛ/ | s'en sortait /sã sɔʁ.tɛ/ | nous en sortions /nu.z‿ã sɔʁ.tjɔ̃/ | vous en sortiez /vu.z‿ã sɔʁ.tje/ | s'en sortaient /sã sɔʁ.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | m'en sortis /mã sɔʁ.ti/ | t'en sortis /tã sɔʁ.ti/ | s'en sortit /sã sɔʁ.ti/ | nous en sortîmes /nu.z‿ã sɔʁ.tim/ | vous en sortîtes /vu.z‿ã sɔʁ.tit/ | s'en sortirent /sã sɔʁ.tiʁ/ | |
| future | m'en sortirai /mã sɔʁ.ti.ʁe/ | t'en sortiras /tã sɔʁ.ti.ʁa/ | s'en sortira /sã sɔʁ.ti.ʁa/ | nous en sortirons /nu.z‿ã sɔʁ.ti.ʁɔ̃/ | vous en sortirez /vu.z‿ã sɔʁ.ti.ʁe/ | s'en sortiront /sã sɔʁ.ti.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | m'en sortirais /mã sɔʁ.ti.ʁɛ/ | t'en sortirais /tã sɔʁ.ti.ʁɛ/ | s'en sortirait /sã sɔʁ.ti.ʁɛ/ | nous en sortirions /nu.z‿ã sɔʁ.ti.ʁjɔ̃/ | vous en sortiriez /vu.z‿ã sɔʁ.ti.ʁje/ | s'en sortiraient /sã sɔʁ.ti.ʁɛ/ | |
| (compound tenses) | present perfect | present indicative of s'en être + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative of s'en être + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior2 | past historic of s'en être + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future of s'en être + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional of s'en être + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | m'en sorte /mã sɔʁt/ | t'en sortes /tã sɔʁt/ | s'en sorte /sã sɔʁt/ | nous en sortions /nu.z‿ã sɔʁ.tjɔ̃/ | vous en sortiez /vu.z‿ã sɔʁ.tje/ | s'en sortent /sã sɔʁt/ |
| imperfect2 | m'en sortisse /mã sɔʁ.tis/ | t'en sortisses /tã sɔʁ.tis/ | s'en sortît /sã sɔʁ.ti/ | nous en sortissions /nu.z‿ã sɔʁ.ti.sjɔ̃/ | vous en sortissiez /vu.z‿ã sɔʁ.ti.sje/ | s'en sortissent /sã sɔʁ.tis/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of s'en être + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of s'en être + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | sors-t'en /sɔʁ.tã/ | — | sortons-nous-en /sɔʁ.tɔ̃.nu.zã/ | sortez-vous-en /sɔʁ.te.vu.zã/ | — | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of s'en être + past participle | — | simple imperative of s'en être + past participle | simple imperative of s'en être + past participle | — | |
| 1 Only usable with preposition en. | |||||||
| 2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||