situer

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin situāre, from situō (“to place, locate”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /si.tɥe/

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Verb

situer

1. to locate (to find the location of something)
2. to situate
3. (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

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		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
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: 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).

Descendants

• → German: situieren

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• truies

Latin

Verb

situer

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of situō