forcir

French

Etymology

From force +‎ -ir.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /fɔʁ.siʁ/

Verb

forcir

(intransitive) to become stronger, fatter

Conjugation

This is a regular verb of the second conjugation, like finir, choisir, and most other verbs with infinitives ending in -ir. One salient feature of this conjugation is the repeated appearance of the infix -iss-.

Conjugation of forcir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	compound	avoir + past participle
infinitive	simple	forcir
present participle or gerund¹	simple	forcissant /fɔʁ.si.sɑ̃/
present participle or gerund¹	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		forci /fɔʁ.si/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	forcis /fɔʁ.si/	forcis /fɔʁ.si/	forcit /fɔʁ.si/	forcissons /fɔʁ.si.sɔ̃/	forcissez /fɔʁ.si.se/	forcissent /fɔʁ.sis/
	imperfect	forcissais /fɔʁ.si.sɛ/	forcissais /fɔʁ.si.sɛ/	forcissait /fɔʁ.si.sɛ/	forcissions /fɔʁ.si.sjɔ̃/	forcissiez /fɔʁ.si.sje/	forcissaient /fɔʁ.si.sɛ/
	past historic²	forcis /fɔʁ.si/	forcis /fɔʁ.si/	forcit /fɔʁ.si/	forcîmes /fɔʁ.sim/	forcîtes /fɔʁ.sit/	forcirent /fɔʁ.siʁ/
	future	forcirai /fɔʁ.si.ʁe/	forciras /fɔʁ.si.ʁa/	forcira /fɔʁ.si.ʁa/	forcirons /fɔʁ.si.ʁɔ̃/	forcirez /fɔʁ.si.ʁe/	forciront /fɔʁ.si.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	forcirais /fɔʁ.si.ʁɛ/	forcirais /fɔʁ.si.ʁɛ/	forcirait /fɔʁ.si.ʁɛ/	forcirions /fɔʁ.si.ʁjɔ̃/	forciriez /fɔʁ.si.ʁje/	forciraient /fɔʁ.si.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	forcisse /fɔʁ.sis/	forcisses /fɔʁ.sis/	forcisse /fɔʁ.sis/	forcissions /fɔʁ.si.sjɔ̃/	forcissiez /fɔʁ.si.sje/	forcissent /fɔʁ.sis/
(simple tenses)	imperfect²	forcisse /fɔʁ.sis/	forcisses /fɔʁ.sis/	forcît /fɔʁ.si/	forcissions /fɔʁ.si.sjɔ̃/	forcissiez /fɔʁ.si.sje/	forcissent /fɔʁ.sis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
(compound tenses)	pluperfect²	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	~~nous~~	~~vous~~	–
simple		—	forcis /fɔʁ.si/	—	forcissons /fɔʁ.si.sɔ̃/	forcissez /fɔʁ.si.se/	—
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).