souloir
French
Etymology
From Latin solēre (“be accustomed”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /su.lwaʁ/
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Verb
souloir
- (obsolete, archaic) to have the habit of, to be used to
Conjugation
Conjugation of souloir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | souloir | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | soulant /su.lɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | soulu /su.ly/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | seux /sø/ | seux /sø/ | seut /sø/ | soulons /su.lɔ̃/ | soulez /su.le/ | seulent /sœl/ |
| imperfect | soulais /su.lɛ/ | soulais /su.lɛ/ | soulait /su.lɛ/ | soulions /su.ljɔ̃/ | souliez /su.lje/ | soulaient /su.lɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | soulus /su.ly/ | soulus /su.ly/ | soulut /su.ly/ | soulûmes /su.lym/ | soulûtes /su.lyt/ | soulurent /su.lyʁ/ | |
| future | soudrai /su.dʁe/ | soudras /su.dʁa/ | soudra /su.dʁa/ | soudrons /su.dʁɔ̃/ | soudrez /su.dʁe/ | soudront /su.dʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | soudrais /su.dʁɛ/ | soudrais /su.dʁɛ/ | soudrait /su.dʁɛ/ | soudrions /su.dʁi.jɔ̃/ | soudriez /su.dʁi.je/ | soudraient /su.dʁɛ/ | |
| (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 | seuille /sœj/ | seuilles /sœj/ | seuille /sœj/ | soulions /su.ljɔ̃/ | souliez /su.lje/ | seuillent /sœj/ |
| imperfect2 | soulusse /su.lys/ | soulusses /su.lys/ | soulût /su.ly/ | soulussions /su.ly.sjɔ̃/ | soulussiez /su.ly.sje/ | soulussent /su.lys/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | seux /sø/ | — | soulons /su.lɔ̃/ | soulez /su.le/ | — | |
| 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). | |||||||
Further reading
- “souloir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle French
Etymology
From Old French soloir. Attested in the infinitive at least as early as 1537.
Verb
souloir
- to have a custom; to do habitually
- 1537, Cicero (original author), Epistres familiaires traduictz de latin en francois et nouvellement imprimez link
- les hommes disent souloir estre faulsement rapporté
- the men say that are habitually falsely reported
- les hommes disent souloir estre faulsement rapporté
- 1537, Cicero (original author), Epistres familiaires traduictz de latin en francois et nouvellement imprimez link
Descendants
- French: souloir (obsolete)