figurer
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
figurer (plural figurers)
- One who figures or calculates.
- 1962, The Book of Knowledge: The Children's Encyclopedia, page 1655:
- With its aid they are quick and nimble figurers. The next digital computer was the adding or calculating machine first completed in 1642 by the French mathematician Blaise Pascal.
Danish edit
Noun edit
figurer
Verb edit
figurer
French edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin figūrāre (infinitive figūrāre).
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
figurer
- to appear (in a list, etc.), to be included; to represent
- (reflexive) to imagine, picture
- 1862, Victor Hugo, Les Misérables, I.1.vi:
- Rien de plus simple à se figurer que la chambre à coucher de l’évêque.
- Nothing could be simpler than picturing the bishop's bed-chamber.
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of figurer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | figurer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | figurant /fi.ɡy.ʁɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | figuré /fi.ɡy.ʁe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | figure /fi.ɡyʁ/ |
figures /fi.ɡyʁ/ |
figure /fi.ɡyʁ/ |
figurons /fi.ɡy.ʁɔ̃/ |
figurez /fi.ɡy.ʁe/ |
figurent /fi.ɡyʁ/ |
| imperfect | figurais /fi.ɡy.ʁɛ/ |
figurais /fi.ɡy.ʁɛ/ |
figurait /fi.ɡy.ʁɛ/ |
figurions /fi.ɡy.ʁjɔ̃/ |
figuriez /fi.ɡy.ʁje/ |
figuraient /fi.ɡy.ʁɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | figurai /fi.ɡy.ʁe/ |
figuras /fi.ɡy.ʁa/ |
figura /fi.ɡy.ʁa/ |
figurâmes /fi.ɡy.ʁam/ |
figurâtes /fi.ɡy.ʁat/ |
figurèrent /fi.ɡy.ʁɛʁ/ | |
| future | figurerai /fi.ɡy.ʁə.ʁe/ |
figureras /fi.ɡy.ʁə.ʁa/ |
figurera /fi.ɡy.ʁə.ʁa/ |
figurerons /fi.ɡy.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ |
figurerez /fi.ɡy.ʁə.ʁe/ |
figureront /fi.ɡy.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | figurerais /fi.ɡy.ʁə.ʁɛ/ |
figurerais /fi.ɡy.ʁə.ʁɛ/ |
figurerait /fi.ɡy.ʁə.ʁɛ/ |
figurerions /fi.ɡy.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
figureriez /fi.ɡy.ʁə.ʁje/ |
figureraient /fi.ɡy.ʁə.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 | figure /fi.ɡyʁ/ |
figures /fi.ɡyʁ/ |
figure /fi.ɡyʁ/ |
figurions /fi.ɡy.ʁjɔ̃/ |
figuriez /fi.ɡy.ʁje/ |
figurent /fi.ɡyʁ/ |
| imperfect2 | figurasse /fi.ɡy.ʁas/ |
figurasses /fi.ɡy.ʁas/ |
figurât /fi.ɡy.ʁa/ |
figurassions /fi.ɡy.ʁa.sjɔ̃/ |
figurassiez /fi.ɡy.ʁa.sje/ |
figurassent /fi.ɡy.ʁas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | figure /fi.ɡyʁ/ |
— | figurons /fi.ɡy.ʁɔ̃/ |
figurez /fi.ɡy.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
- “figurer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin edit
Verb edit
figūrer
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Noun edit
figurer m
Swedish edit
Noun edit
figurer