sourire
French
Etymology
From Old French, from Vulgar Latin *subrīdĕre, from Latin subrīdēre, present active infinitive of subrīdeō (“I smile”). Compare Catalan somriure, Italian sorridere, Occitan sorire, Portuguese sorrir and Spanish sonreír.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /su.ʁiʁ/
Audio (France, Paris) (file) Audio (file) - Homophones: sourirent, sourires
- Hyphenation: sou‧rire
Noun
sourire m (plural sourires)
- smile
Verb
sourire
- to smile
Conjugation
Conjugation of sourire (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | sourire | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | souriant /su.ʁjɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | souri /su.ʁi/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | souris /su.ʁi/ | souris /su.ʁi/ | sourit /su.ʁi/ | sourions /su.ʁjɔ̃/ | souriez /su.ʁje/ | sourient /su.ʁi/ |
| imperfect | souriais /su.ʁjɛ/ | souriais /su.ʁjɛ/ | souriait /su.ʁjɛ/ | souriions /su.ʁi.jɔ̃/ | souriiez /su.ʁi.je/ | souriaient /su.ʁjɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | souris /su.ʁi/ | souris /su.ʁi/ | sourit /su.ʁi/ | sourîmes /su.ʁim/ | sourîtes /su.ʁit/ | sourirent /su.ʁiʁ/ | |
| future | sourirai /su.ʁi.ʁe/ | souriras /su.ʁi.ʁa/ | sourira /su.ʁi.ʁa/ | sourirons /su.ʁi.ʁɔ̃/ | sourirez /su.ʁi.ʁe/ | souriront /su.ʁi.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | sourirais /su.ʁi.ʁɛ/ | sourirais /su.ʁi.ʁɛ/ | sourirait /su.ʁi.ʁɛ/ | souririons /su.ʁi.ʁjɔ̃/ | souririez /su.ʁi.ʁje/ | souriraient /su.ʁi.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 | sourie /su.ʁi/ | souries /su.ʁi/ | sourie /su.ʁi/ | souriions /su.ʁi.jɔ̃/ | souriiez /su.ʁi.je/ | sourient /su.ʁi/ |
| imperfect2 | sourisse /su.ʁis/ | sourisses /su.ʁis/ | sourît /su.ʁi/ | sourissions /su.ʁi.sjɔ̃/ | sourissiez /su.ʁi.sje/ | sourissent /su.ʁis/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | souris /su.ʁi/ | — | sourions /su.ʁjɔ̃/ | souriez /su.ʁje/ | — | |
| 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
- la fortune sourit aux audacieux
- le beurre, l'argent du beurre et le sourire de la crémière
- sourire à pleines dents
- sourire de toutes ses dents
- sourire jusqu'aux oreilles
- tout sourire
Related terms
- see rire
Further reading
- “sourire”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.