souscrire
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin subscribo, subscribere (“to sign, subscribe to”), and adapted to the French words sous and écrire.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sus.kʁiʁ/
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Verb
souscrire
- to subscribe (all meanings)
Conjugation
Conjugation of souscrire (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | souscrire | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | souscrivant /sus.kʁi.vɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | souscrit /sus.kʁi/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | souscris /sus.kʁi/ | souscris /sus.kʁi/ | souscrit /sus.kʁi/ | souscrivons /sus.kʁi.vɔ̃/ | souscrivez /sus.kʁi.ve/ | souscrivent /sus.kʁiv/ |
| imperfect | souscrivais /sus.kʁi.vɛ/ | souscrivais /sus.kʁi.vɛ/ | souscrivait /sus.kʁi.vɛ/ | souscrivions /sus.kʁi.vjɔ̃/ | souscriviez /sus.kʁi.vje/ | souscrivaient /sus.kʁi.vɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | souscrivis /sus.kʁi.vi/ | souscrivis /sus.kʁi.vi/ | souscrivit /sus.kʁi.vi/ | souscrivîmes /sus.kʁi.vim/ | souscrivîtes /sus.kʁi.vit/ | souscrivirent /sus.kʁi.viʁ/ | |
| future | souscrirai /sus.kʁi.ʁe/ | souscriras /sus.kʁi.ʁa/ | souscrira /sus.kʁi.ʁa/ | souscrirons /sus.kʁi.ʁɔ̃/ | souscrirez /sus.kʁi.ʁe/ | souscriront /sus.kʁi.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | souscrirais /sus.kʁi.ʁɛ/ | souscrirais /sus.kʁi.ʁɛ/ | souscrirait /sus.kʁi.ʁɛ/ | souscririons /sus.kʁi.ʁjɔ̃/ | souscririez /sus.kʁi.ʁje/ | souscriraient /sus.kʁi.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 | souscrive /sus.kʁiv/ | souscrives /sus.kʁiv/ | souscrive /sus.kʁiv/ | souscrivions /sus.kʁi.vjɔ̃/ | souscriviez /sus.kʁi.vje/ | souscrivent /sus.kʁiv/ |
| imperfect2 | souscrivisse /sus.kʁi.vis/ | souscrivisses /sus.kʁi.vis/ | souscrivît /sus.kʁi.vi/ | souscrivissions /sus.kʁi.vi.sjɔ̃/ | souscrivissiez /sus.kʁi.vi.sje/ | souscrivissent /sus.kʁi.vis/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | souscris /sus.kʁi/ | — | souscrivons /sus.kʁi.vɔ̃/ | souscrivez /sus.kʁi.ve/ | — | |
| 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
- souscription
Further reading
- “souscrire”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.