suffire
French edit
Etymology edit
From Middle French, from Old French sufire, susfire et al., from Latin sufficiō.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
suffire
Usage notes edit
- When followed by que, suffire gives the subjunctive mood.
- The past participle of suffire is always invariable, even when used pronominally.
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of suffire (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | suffire | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | suffisant /sy.fi.zɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | suffi /sy.fi/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | suffis /sy.fi/ |
suffis /sy.fi/ |
suffit /sy.fi/ |
suffisons /sy.fi.zɔ̃/ |
suffisez /sy.fi.ze/ |
suffisent /sy.fiz/ |
| imperfect | suffisais /sy.fi.zɛ/ |
suffisais /sy.fi.zɛ/ |
suffisait /sy.fi.zɛ/ |
suffisions /sy.fi.zjɔ̃/ |
suffisiez /sy.fi.zje/ |
suffisaient /sy.fi.zɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | suffis /sy.fi/ |
suffis /sy.fi/ |
suffit /sy.fi/ |
suffîmes /sy.fim/ |
suffîtes /sy.fit/ |
suffirent /sy.fiʁ/ | |
| future | suffirai /sy.fi.ʁe/ |
suffiras /sy.fi.ʁa/ |
suffira /sy.fi.ʁa/ |
suffirons /sy.fi.ʁɔ̃/ |
suffirez /sy.fi.ʁe/ |
suffiront /sy.fi.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | suffirais /sy.fi.ʁɛ/ |
suffirais /sy.fi.ʁɛ/ |
suffirait /sy.fi.ʁɛ/ |
suffirions /sy.fi.ʁjɔ̃/ |
suffiriez /sy.fi.ʁje/ |
suffiraient /sy.fi.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 | suffise /sy.fiz/ |
suffises /sy.fiz/ |
suffise /sy.fiz/ |
suffisions /sy.fi.zjɔ̃/ |
suffisiez /sy.fi.zje/ |
suffisent /sy.fiz/ |
| imperfect2 | suffisse /sy.fis/ |
suffisses /sy.fis/ |
suffît /sy.fi/ |
suffissions /sy.fi.sjɔ̃/ |
suffissiez /sy.fi.sje/ |
suffissent /sy.fis/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | suffis /sy.fi/ |
— | suffisons /sy.fi.zɔ̃/ |
suffisez /sy.fi.ze/ |
— | |
| 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). | |||||||
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- “suffire”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin edit
Verb edit
suffīre
- inflection of suffiō: