situer
French edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Medieval Latin situāre, from situō (“to place, locate”).
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
situer
- to locate (to find the location of something)
- to situate
- (takes a reflexive pronoun) to be located (at a certain place); To be (for a place)
- Le restaurant se situe à 200m de l’hôtel.
- The restaurant is located 200m from the hotel.
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of situer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | situer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | situant /si.tɥɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | situé /si.tɥe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | situe /si.ty/ |
situes /si.ty/ |
situe /si.ty/ |
situons /si.tɥɔ̃/ |
situez /si.tɥe/ |
situent /si.ty/ |
| imperfect | situais /si.tɥɛ/ |
situais /si.tɥɛ/ |
situait /si.tɥɛ/ |
situions /si.ty.jɔ̃/ |
situiez /si.ty.je/ |
situaient /si.tɥɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | situai /si.tɥe/ |
situas /si.tɥa/ |
situa /si.tɥa/ |
situâmes /si.tɥam/ |
situâtes /si.tɥat/ |
situèrent /si.tɥɛʁ/ | |
| future | situerai /si.ty.ʁe/ |
situeras /si.ty.ʁa/ |
situera /si.ty.ʁa/ |
situerons /si.ty.ʁɔ̃/ |
situerez /si.ty.ʁe/ |
situeront /si.ty.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | situerais /si.ty.ʁɛ/ |
situerais /si.ty.ʁɛ/ |
situerait /si.ty.ʁɛ/ |
situerions /si.ty.ʁjɔ̃/ |
situeriez /si.ty.ʁje/ |
situeraient /si.ty.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 | situe /si.ty/ |
situes /si.ty/ |
situe /si.ty/ |
situions /si.ty.jɔ̃/ |
situiez /si.ty.je/ |
situent /si.ty/ |
| imperfect2 | situasse /si.tɥas/ |
situasses /si.tɥas/ |
situât /si.tɥa/ |
situassions /si.tɥa.sjɔ̃/ |
situassiez /si.tɥa.sje/ |
situassent /si.tɥas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | situe /si.ty/ |
— | situons /si.tɥɔ̃/ |
situez /si.tɥe/ |
— | |
| 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). | |||||||
Descendants edit
- → German: situieren
Further reading edit
- “situer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams edit
Latin edit
Verb edit
situer