régir

See also: regir

French

Etymology

Semi-learned borrowing from Latin regere, with a change in conjugation. Cognate with Spanish regir.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ʁe.ʒiʁ/
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Verb

régir

(transitive) to govern
La grammaire étudie les règles qui régissent une langue donnée et permettent de construire des énoncés reconnus corrects par les locuteurs natifs de cette langue.
Grammar is the study of the rules that govern a particular language and allow the construction of utterances that native speakers of that language recognize as correct.

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 régir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	compound	avoir + past participle
infinitive	simple	régir
present participle or gerund¹	simple	régissant /ʁe.ʒi.sɑ̃/
present participle or gerund¹	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		régi /ʁe.ʒi/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	régis /ʁe.ʒi/	régis /ʁe.ʒi/	régit /ʁe.ʒi/	régissons /ʁe.ʒi.sɔ̃/	régissez /ʁe.ʒi.se/	régissent /ʁe.ʒis/
	imperfect	régissais /ʁe.ʒi.sɛ/	régissais /ʁe.ʒi.sɛ/	régissait /ʁe.ʒi.sɛ/	régissions /ʁe.ʒi.sjɔ̃/	régissiez /ʁe.ʒi.sje/	régissaient /ʁe.ʒi.sɛ/
	past historic²	régis /ʁe.ʒi/	régis /ʁe.ʒi/	régit /ʁe.ʒi/	régîmes /ʁe.ʒim/	régîtes /ʁe.ʒit/	régirent /ʁe.ʒiʁ/
	future	régirai /ʁe.ʒi.ʁe/	régiras /ʁe.ʒi.ʁa/	régira /ʁe.ʒi.ʁa/	régirons /ʁe.ʒi.ʁɔ̃/	régirez /ʁe.ʒi.ʁe/	régiront /ʁe.ʒi.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	régirais /ʁe.ʒi.ʁɛ/	régirais /ʁe.ʒi.ʁɛ/	régirait /ʁe.ʒi.ʁɛ/	régirions /ʁe.ʒi.ʁjɔ̃/	régiriez /ʁe.ʒi.ʁje/	régiraient /ʁe.ʒi.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	régisse /ʁe.ʒis/	régisses /ʁe.ʒis/	régisse /ʁe.ʒis/	régissions /ʁe.ʒi.sjɔ̃/	régissiez /ʁe.ʒi.sje/	régissent /ʁe.ʒis/
(simple tenses)	imperfect²	régisse /ʁe.ʒis/	régisses /ʁe.ʒis/	régît /ʁe.ʒi/	régissions /ʁe.ʒi.sjɔ̃/	régissiez /ʁe.ʒi.sje/	régissent /ʁe.ʒis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
(compound tenses)	pluperfect²	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	~~nous~~	~~vous~~	–
simple		—	régis /ʁe.ʒi/	—	régissons /ʁe.ʒi.sɔ̃/	régissez /ʁe.ʒi.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).

Derived terms

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