concourir
French edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin concurrere, based on French courir.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
concourir
- (intransitive) to compete, to contend
- (followed by the preposition à) to contribute, to play a role in
- (mathematics) to converge
Conjugation edit
This verb is conjugated like other regular -ir verbs, except that in the conditional and future tenses an extra 'r' is added to the end of the stem and the past participle ends in -u. All verb ending in -courir are conjugated this way.
Conjugation of concourir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | concourir | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | concourant /kɔ̃.ku.ʁɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | concouru /kɔ̃.ku.ʁy/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | concours /kɔ̃.kuʁ/ |
concours /kɔ̃.kuʁ/ |
concourt /kɔ̃.kuʁ/ |
concourons /kɔ̃.ku.ʁɔ̃/ |
concourez /kɔ̃.ku.ʁe/ |
concourent /kɔ̃.kuʁ/ |
| imperfect | concourais /kɔ̃.ku.ʁɛ/ |
concourais /kɔ̃.ku.ʁɛ/ |
concourait /kɔ̃.ku.ʁɛ/ |
concourions /kɔ̃.ku.ʁjɔ̃/ |
concouriez /kɔ̃.ku.ʁje/ |
concouraient /kɔ̃.ku.ʁɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | concourus /kɔ̃.ku.ʁy/ |
concourus /kɔ̃.ku.ʁy/ |
concourut /kɔ̃.ku.ʁy/ |
concourûmes /kɔ̃.ku.ʁym/ |
concourûtes /kɔ̃.ku.ʁyt/ |
concoururent /kɔ̃.ku.ʁyʁ/ | |
| future | concourrai /kɔ̃.kuʁ.ʁe/ |
concourras /kɔ̃.kuʁ.ʁa/ |
concourra /kɔ̃.kuʁ.ʁa/ |
concourrons /kɔ̃.kuʁ.ʁɔ̃/ |
concourrez /kɔ̃.kuʁ.ʁe/ |
concourront /kɔ̃.kuʁ.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | concourrais /kɔ̃.kuʁ.ʁɛ/ |
concourrais /kɔ̃.kuʁ.ʁɛ/ |
concourrait /kɔ̃.kuʁ.ʁɛ/ |
concourrions /kɔ̃.kuʁ.ʁjɔ̃/ |
concourriez /kɔ̃.kuʁ.ʁje/ |
concourraient /kɔ̃.kuʁ.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 | concoure /kɔ̃.kuʁ/ |
concoures /kɔ̃.kuʁ/ |
concoure /kɔ̃.kuʁ/ |
concourions /kɔ̃.ku.ʁjɔ̃/ |
concouriez /kɔ̃.ku.ʁje/ |
concourent /kɔ̃.kuʁ/ |
| imperfect2 | concourusse /kɔ̃.ku.ʁys/ |
concourusses /kɔ̃.ku.ʁys/ |
concourût /kɔ̃.ku.ʁy/ |
concourussions /kɔ̃.ku.ʁy.sjɔ̃/ |
concourussiez /kɔ̃.ku.ʁy.sje/ |
concourussent /kɔ̃.ku.ʁys/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | concours /kɔ̃.kuʁ/ |
— | concourons /kɔ̃.ku.ʁɔ̃/ |
concourez /kɔ̃.ku.ʁe/ |
— | |
| 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 edit
Further reading edit
- “concourir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.