circonscrire
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin circumscrībō.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁiʁ/
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Verb
circonscrire
- to circumscribe
Conjugation
Conjugation of circonscrire (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | circonscrire | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | circonscrivant /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.vɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | circonscrit /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | circonscris /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi/ |
circonscris /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi/ |
circonscrit /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi/ |
circonscrivons /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.vɔ̃/ |
circonscrivez /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.ve/ |
circonscrivent /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁiv/ |
| imperfect | circonscrivais /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.vɛ/ |
circonscrivais /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.vɛ/ |
circonscrivait /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.vɛ/ |
circonscrivions /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.vjɔ̃/ |
circonscriviez /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.vje/ |
circonscrivaient /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.vɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | circonscrivis /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.vi/ |
circonscrivis /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.vi/ |
circonscrivit /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.vi/ |
circonscrivîmes /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.vim/ |
circonscrivîtes /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.vit/ |
circonscrivirent /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.viʁ/ | |
| future | circonscrirai /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.ʁe/ |
circonscriras /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.ʁa/ |
circonscrira /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.ʁa/ |
circonscrirons /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.ʁɔ̃/ |
circonscrirez /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.ʁe/ |
circonscriront /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | circonscrirais /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.ʁɛ/ |
circonscrirais /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.ʁɛ/ |
circonscrirait /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.ʁɛ/ |
circonscririons /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.ʁjɔ̃/ |
circonscririez /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.ʁje/ |
circonscriraient /siʁ.kɔ̃s.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 | circonscrive /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁiv/ |
circonscrives /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁiv/ |
circonscrive /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁiv/ |
circonscrivions /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.vjɔ̃/ |
circonscriviez /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.vje/ |
circonscrivent /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁiv/ |
| imperfect2 | circonscrivisse /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.vis/ |
circonscrivisses /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.vis/ |
circonscrivît /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.vi/ |
circonscrivissions /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.vi.sjɔ̃/ |
circonscrivissiez /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.vi.sje/ |
circonscrivissent /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.vis/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | circonscris /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi/ |
— | circonscrivons /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.vɔ̃/ |
circonscrivez /siʁ.kɔ̃s.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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Related terms
Further reading
- “circonscrire”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.