transcrire

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin trānscrībō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʁɑ̃s.kʁiʁ/

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Verb

transcrire

1. to transcribe (all senses)

Conjugation

Conjugation of transcrire (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	transcrire
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	transcrivant /tʁɑ̃s.kʁi.vɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		transcrit /tʁɑ̃s.kʁi/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	transcris /tʁɑ̃s.kʁi/	transcris /tʁɑ̃s.kʁi/	transcrit /tʁɑ̃s.kʁi/	transcrivons /tʁɑ̃s.kʁi.vɔ̃/	transcrivez /tʁɑ̃s.kʁi.ve/	transcrivent /tʁɑ̃s.kʁiv/
	imperfect	transcrivais /tʁɑ̃s.kʁi.vɛ/	transcrivais /tʁɑ̃s.kʁi.vɛ/	transcrivait /tʁɑ̃s.kʁi.vɛ/	transcrivions /tʁɑ̃s.kʁi.vjɔ̃/	transcriviez /tʁɑ̃s.kʁi.vje/	transcrivaient /tʁɑ̃s.kʁi.vɛ/
	past historic2	transcrivis /tʁɑ̃s.kʁi.vi/	transcrivis /tʁɑ̃s.kʁi.vi/	transcrivit /tʁɑ̃s.kʁi.vi/	transcrivîmes /tʁɑ̃s.kʁi.vim/	transcrivîtes /tʁɑ̃s.kʁi.vit/	transcrivirent /tʁɑ̃s.kʁi.viʁ/
	future	transcrirai /tʁɑ̃s.kʁi.ʁe/	transcriras /tʁɑ̃s.kʁi.ʁa/	transcrira /tʁɑ̃s.kʁi.ʁa/	transcrirons /tʁɑ̃s.kʁi.ʁɔ̃/	transcrirez /tʁɑ̃s.kʁi.ʁe/	transcriront /tʁɑ̃s.kʁi.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	transcrirais /tʁɑ̃s.kʁi.ʁɛ/	transcrirais /tʁɑ̃s.kʁi.ʁɛ/	transcrirait /tʁɑ̃s.kʁi.ʁɛ/	transcririons /tʁɑ̃s.kʁi.ʁjɔ̃/	transcririez /tʁɑ̃s.kʁi.ʁje/	transcriraient /tʁɑ̃s.kʁi.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	transcrive /tʁɑ̃s.kʁiv/	transcrives /tʁɑ̃s.kʁiv/	transcrive /tʁɑ̃s.kʁiv/	transcrivions /tʁɑ̃s.kʁi.vjɔ̃/	transcriviez /tʁɑ̃s.kʁi.vje/	transcrivent /tʁɑ̃s.kʁiv/
	imperfect2	transcrivisse /tʁɑ̃s.kʁi.vis/	transcrivisses /tʁɑ̃s.kʁi.vis/	transcrivît /tʁɑ̃s.kʁi.vi/	transcrivissions /tʁɑ̃s.kʁi.vi.sjɔ̃/	transcrivissiez /tʁɑ̃s.kʁi.vi.sje/	transcrivissent /tʁɑ̃s.kʁi.vis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	transcris /tʁɑ̃s.kʁi/	—	transcrivons /tʁɑ̃s.kʁi.vɔ̃/	transcrivez /tʁɑ̃s.kʁi.ve/	—
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).

Related terms

• transcription

Further reading

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