prédire
French edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Middle French predire, borrowed from Latin praedīcere.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
prédire
Conjugation edit
This verb is one of a group of -re verbs all ending in -dire. They are conjugated exactly like dire, but with a different second-person plural indicative present (that is, like confire). Members of this group include contredire and interdire.
Conjugation of prédire (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | prédire | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | prédisant /pʁe.di.zɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | prédit /pʁe.di/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | prédis /pʁe.di/ |
prédis /pʁe.di/ |
prédit /pʁe.di/ |
prédisons /pʁe.di.zɔ̃/ |
prédisez /pʁe.di.ze/ |
prédisent /pʁe.diz/ |
| imperfect | prédisais /pʁe.di.zɛ/ |
prédisais /pʁe.di.zɛ/ |
prédisait /pʁe.di.zɛ/ |
prédisions /pʁe.di.zjɔ̃/ |
prédisiez /pʁe.di.zje/ |
prédisaient /pʁe.di.zɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | prédis /pʁe.di/ |
prédis /pʁe.di/ |
prédit /pʁe.di/ |
prédîmes /pʁe.dim/ |
prédîtes /pʁe.dit/ |
prédirent /pʁe.diʁ/ | |
| future | prédirai /pʁe.di.ʁe/ |
prédiras /pʁe.di.ʁa/ |
prédira /pʁe.di.ʁa/ |
prédirons /pʁe.di.ʁɔ̃/ |
prédirez /pʁe.di.ʁe/ |
prédiront /pʁe.di.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | prédirais /pʁe.di.ʁɛ/ |
prédirais /pʁe.di.ʁɛ/ |
prédirait /pʁe.di.ʁɛ/ |
prédirions /pʁe.di.ʁjɔ̃/ |
prédiriez /pʁe.di.ʁje/ |
prédiraient /pʁe.di.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 | prédise /pʁe.diz/ |
prédises /pʁe.diz/ |
prédise /pʁe.diz/ |
prédisions /pʁe.di.zjɔ̃/ |
prédisiez /pʁe.di.zje/ |
prédisent /pʁe.diz/ |
| imperfect2 | prédisse /pʁe.dis/ |
prédisses /pʁe.dis/ |
prédît /pʁe.di/ |
prédissions /pʁe.di.sjɔ̃/ |
prédissiez /pʁe.di.sje/ |
prédissent /pʁe.dis/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | prédis /pʁe.di/ |
— | prédisons /pʁe.di.zɔ̃/ |
prédisez /pʁe.di.ze/ |
— | |
| 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
- “prédire”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.