vérifier
See also: verifier
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Medieval Latin vērificāre, present active infinitive of vērificō, from Latin vērus (“true”) + faciō (“to do, to make”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ve.ʁi.fje/
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Verb
vérifier
- (transitive) to verify
- to confirm
- Synonym: confirmer
- to prove
- Synonym: prouver
- to confirm
Conjugation
Conjugation of vérifier (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | vérifier | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | vérifiant /ve.ʁi.fjɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | vérifié /ve.ʁi.fje/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | vérifie /ve.ʁi.fi/ | vérifies /ve.ʁi.fi/ | vérifie /ve.ʁi.fi/ | vérifions /ve.ʁi.fjɔ̃/ | vérifiez /ve.ʁi.fje/ | vérifient /ve.ʁi.fi/ |
| imperfect | vérifiais /ve.ʁi.fjɛ/ | vérifiais /ve.ʁi.fjɛ/ | vérifiait /ve.ʁi.fjɛ/ | vérifiions /ve.ʁi.fi.jɔ̃/ | vérifiiez /ve.ʁi.fi.je/ | vérifiaient /ve.ʁi.fjɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | vérifiai /ve.ʁi.fje/ | vérifias /ve.ʁi.fja/ | vérifia /ve.ʁi.fja/ | vérifiâmes /ve.ʁi.fjam/ | vérifiâtes /ve.ʁi.fjat/ | vérifièrent /ve.ʁi.fjɛʁ/ | |
| future | vérifierai /ve.ʁi.fi.ʁe/ | vérifieras /ve.ʁi.fi.ʁa/ | vérifiera /ve.ʁi.fi.ʁa/ | vérifierons /ve.ʁi.fi.ʁɔ̃/ | vérifierez /ve.ʁi.fi.ʁe/ | vérifieront /ve.ʁi.fi.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | vérifierais /ve.ʁi.fi.ʁɛ/ | vérifierais /ve.ʁi.fi.ʁɛ/ | vérifierait /ve.ʁi.fi.ʁɛ/ | vérifierions /ve.ʁi.fi.ʁjɔ̃/ | vérifieriez /ve.ʁi.fi.ʁje/ | vérifieraient /ve.ʁi.fi.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 | vérifie /ve.ʁi.fi/ | vérifies /ve.ʁi.fi/ | vérifie /ve.ʁi.fi/ | vérifiions /ve.ʁi.fi.jɔ̃/ | vérifiiez /ve.ʁi.fi.je/ | vérifient /ve.ʁi.fi/ |
| imperfect2 | vérifiasse /ve.ʁi.fjas/ | vérifiasses /ve.ʁi.fjas/ | vérifiât /ve.ʁi.fja/ | vérifiassions /ve.ʁi.fja.sjɔ̃/ | vérifiassiez /ve.ʁi.fja.sje/ | vérifiassent /ve.ʁi.fjas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | vérifie /ve.ʁi.fi/ | — | vérifions /ve.ʁi.fjɔ̃/ | vérifiez /ve.ʁi.fje/ | — | |
| 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
- vérificateur
- vérificatif
- vérification
- vérifieur
- vérité
References
- “vérifier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.