forcir
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fɔʁ.siʁ/
Verb
forcir
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 forcir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | forcir | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | forcissant /fɔʁ.si.sɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | forci /fɔʁ.si/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | forcis /fɔʁ.si/ |
forcis /fɔʁ.si/ |
forcit /fɔʁ.si/ |
forcissons /fɔʁ.si.sɔ̃/ |
forcissez /fɔʁ.si.se/ |
forcissent /fɔʁ.sis/ |
| imperfect | forcissais /fɔʁ.si.sɛ/ |
forcissais /fɔʁ.si.sɛ/ |
forcissait /fɔʁ.si.sɛ/ |
forcissions /fɔʁ.si.sjɔ̃/ |
forcissiez /fɔʁ.si.sje/ |
forcissaient /fɔʁ.si.sɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | forcis /fɔʁ.si/ |
forcis /fɔʁ.si/ |
forcit /fɔʁ.si/ |
forcîmes /fɔʁ.sim/ |
forcîtes /fɔʁ.sit/ |
forcirent /fɔʁ.siʁ/ | |
| future | forcirai /fɔʁ.si.ʁe/ |
forciras /fɔʁ.si.ʁa/ |
forcira /fɔʁ.si.ʁa/ |
forcirons /fɔʁ.si.ʁɔ̃/ |
forcirez /fɔʁ.si.ʁe/ |
forciront /fɔʁ.si.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | forcirais /fɔʁ.si.ʁɛ/ |
forcirais /fɔʁ.si.ʁɛ/ |
forcirait /fɔʁ.si.ʁɛ/ |
forcirions /fɔʁ.si.ʁjɔ̃/ |
forciriez /fɔʁ.si.ʁje/ |
forciraient /fɔʁ.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 | forcisse /fɔʁ.sis/ |
forcisses /fɔʁ.sis/ |
forcisse /fɔʁ.sis/ |
forcissions /fɔʁ.si.sjɔ̃/ |
forcissiez /fɔʁ.si.sje/ |
forcissent /fɔʁ.sis/ |
| imperfect2 | forcisse /fɔʁ.sis/ |
forcisses /fɔʁ.sis/ |
forcît /fɔʁ.si/ |
forcissions /fɔʁ.si.sjɔ̃/ |
forcissiez /fɔʁ.si.sje/ |
forcissent /fɔʁ.sis/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | forcis /fɔʁ.si/ |
— | forcissons /fɔʁ.si.sɔ̃/ |
forcissez /fɔʁ.si.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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Further reading
- “forcir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.