vicier

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin vitiāre (“to make faulty, to spoil, to damage”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vi.sje/

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Verb

vicier

1. (transitive) to invalidate
2. (transitive) to vitiate

Conjugation

Conjugation of vicier (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	vicier
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	viciant /vi.sjɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		vicié /vi.sje/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	vicie /vi.si/	vicies /vi.si/	vicie /vi.si/	vicions /vi.sjɔ̃/	viciez /vi.sje/	vicient /vi.si/
	imperfect	viciais /vi.sjɛ/	viciais /vi.sjɛ/	viciait /vi.sjɛ/	viciions /vi.si.jɔ̃/	viciiez /vi.si.je/	viciaient /vi.sjɛ/
	past historic2	viciai /vi.sje/	vicias /vi.sja/	vicia /vi.sja/	viciâmes /vi.sjam/	viciâtes /vi.sjat/	vicièrent /vi.sjɛʁ/
	future	vicierai /vi.si.ʁe/	vicieras /vi.si.ʁa/	viciera /vi.si.ʁa/	vicierons /vi.si.ʁɔ̃/	vicierez /vi.si.ʁe/	vicieront /vi.si.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	vicierais /vi.si.ʁɛ/	vicierais /vi.si.ʁɛ/	vicierait /vi.si.ʁɛ/	vicierions /vi.si.ʁjɔ̃/	vicieriez /vi.si.ʁje/	vicieraient /vi.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	vicie /vi.si/	vicies /vi.si/	vicie /vi.si/	viciions /vi.si.jɔ̃/	viciiez /vi.si.je/	vicient /vi.si/
	imperfect2	viciasse /vi.sjas/	viciasses /vi.sjas/	viciât /vi.sja/	viciassions /vi.sja.sjɔ̃/	viciassiez /vi.sja.sje/	viciassent /vi.sjas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	vicie /vi.si/	—	vicions /vi.sjɔ̃/	viciez /vi.sje/	—
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).

Further reading

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