secourir
French edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Middle French secourir, from an alteration of Old French sucurre, secorre (based on courir), from Latin succurrere.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
secourir
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 secourir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | secourir | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | secourant /sə.ku.ʁɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | secouru /sə.ku.ʁy/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | secours /sə.kuʁ/ |
secours /sə.kuʁ/ |
secourt /sə.kuʁ/ |
secourons /sə.ku.ʁɔ̃/ |
secourez /sə.ku.ʁe/ |
secourent /sə.kuʁ/ |
| imperfect | secourais /sə.ku.ʁɛ/ |
secourais /sə.ku.ʁɛ/ |
secourait /sə.ku.ʁɛ/ |
secourions /sə.ku.ʁjɔ̃/ |
secouriez /sə.ku.ʁje/ |
secouraient /sə.ku.ʁɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | secourus /sə.ku.ʁy/ |
secourus /sə.ku.ʁy/ |
secourut /sə.ku.ʁy/ |
secourûmes /sə.ku.ʁym/ |
secourûtes /sə.ku.ʁyt/ |
secoururent /sə.ku.ʁyʁ/ | |
| future | secourrai /sə.kuʁ.ʁe/ |
secourras /sə.kuʁ.ʁa/ |
secourra /sə.kuʁ.ʁa/ |
secourrons /sə.kuʁ.ʁɔ̃/ |
secourrez /sə.kuʁ.ʁe/ |
secourront /sə.kuʁ.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | secourrais /sə.kuʁ.ʁɛ/ |
secourrais /sə.kuʁ.ʁɛ/ |
secourrait /sə.kuʁ.ʁɛ/ |
secourrions /sə.kuʁ.ʁjɔ̃/ |
secourriez /sə.kuʁ.ʁje/ |
secourraient /sə.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 | secoure /sə.kuʁ/ |
secoures /sə.kuʁ/ |
secoure /sə.kuʁ/ |
secourions /sə.ku.ʁjɔ̃/ |
secouriez /sə.ku.ʁje/ |
secourent /sə.kuʁ/ |
| imperfect2 | secourusse /sə.ku.ʁys/ |
secourusses /sə.ku.ʁys/ |
secourût /sə.ku.ʁy/ |
secourussions /sə.ku.ʁy.sjɔ̃/ |
secourussiez /sə.ku.ʁy.sje/ |
secourussent /sə.ku.ʁys/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | secours /sə.kuʁ/ |
— | secourons /sə.ku.ʁɔ̃/ |
secourez /sə.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). | |||||||
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- “secourir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams edit
Middle French edit
Etymology edit
From an alteration of Old French sucurre, secorre (based on courir), from Latin succurrere, present active infinitive of succurrō.
Verb edit
secourir
Descendants edit
- French: secourir