souscrire

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin subscribere (“to sign, subscribe to”), and adapted to the French words sous and écrire.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sus.kʁiʁ/

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Verb

souscrire

1. to subscribe (all meanings)

Conjugation

Conjugation of souscrire (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	souscrire
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	souscrivant /sus.kʁi.vɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		souscrit /sus.kʁi/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	souscris /sus.kʁi/	souscris /sus.kʁi/	souscrit /sus.kʁi/	souscrivons /sus.kʁi.vɔ̃/	souscrivez /sus.kʁi.ve/	souscrivent /sus.kʁiv/
	imperfect	souscrivais /sus.kʁi.vɛ/	souscrivais /sus.kʁi.vɛ/	souscrivait /sus.kʁi.vɛ/	souscrivions /sus.kʁi.vjɔ̃/	souscriviez /sus.kʁi.vje/	souscrivaient /sus.kʁi.vɛ/
	past historic2	souscrivis /sus.kʁi.vi/	souscrivis /sus.kʁi.vi/	souscrivit /sus.kʁi.vi/	souscrivîmes /sus.kʁi.vim/	souscrivîtes /sus.kʁi.vit/	souscrivirent /sus.kʁi.viʁ/
	future	souscrirai /sus.kʁi.ʁe/	souscriras /sus.kʁi.ʁa/	souscrira /sus.kʁi.ʁa/	souscrirons /sus.kʁi.ʁɔ̃/	souscrirez /sus.kʁi.ʁe/	souscriront /sus.kʁi.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	souscrirais /sus.kʁi.ʁɛ/	souscrirais /sus.kʁi.ʁɛ/	souscrirait /sus.kʁi.ʁɛ/	souscririons /sus.kʁi.ʁjɔ̃/	souscririez /sus.kʁi.ʁje/	souscriraient /sus.kʁi.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	souscrive /sus.kʁiv/	souscrives /sus.kʁiv/	souscrive /sus.kʁiv/	souscrivions /sus.kʁi.vjɔ̃/	souscriviez /sus.kʁi.vje/	souscrivent /sus.kʁiv/
	imperfect2	souscrivisse /sus.kʁi.vis/	souscrivisses /sus.kʁi.vis/	souscrivît /sus.kʁi.vi/	souscrivissions /sus.kʁi.vi.sjɔ̃/	souscrivissiez /sus.kʁi.vi.sje/	souscrivissent /sus.kʁi.vis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	souscris /sus.kʁi/	—	souscrivons /sus.kʁi.vɔ̃/	souscrivez /sus.kʁi.ve/	—
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: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Related terms

• souscription

Further reading

• “souscrire”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.