cirer
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /si.ʁe/
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Verb
cirer
- to wax (apply wax to something)
Conjugation
Conjugation of cirer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | cirer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | cirant /si.ʁɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | ciré /si.ʁe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | cire /siʁ/ |
cires /siʁ/ |
cire /siʁ/ |
cirons /si.ʁɔ̃/ |
cirez /si.ʁe/ |
cirent /siʁ/ |
| imperfect | cirais /si.ʁɛ/ |
cirais /si.ʁɛ/ |
cirait /si.ʁɛ/ |
cirions /si.ʁjɔ̃/ |
ciriez /si.ʁje/ |
ciraient /si.ʁɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | cirai /si.ʁe/ |
ciras /si.ʁa/ |
cira /si.ʁa/ |
cirâmes /si.ʁam/ |
cirâtes /si.ʁat/ |
cirèrent /si.ʁɛʁ/ | |
| future | cirerai /si.ʁə.ʁe/ |
cireras /si.ʁə.ʁa/ |
cirera /si.ʁə.ʁa/ |
cirerons /si.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ |
cirerez /si.ʁə.ʁe/ |
cireront /si.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | cirerais /si.ʁə.ʁɛ/ |
cirerais /si.ʁə.ʁɛ/ |
cirerait /si.ʁə.ʁɛ/ |
cirerions /si.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
cireriez /si.ʁə.ʁje/ |
cireraient /si.ʁə.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 | cire /siʁ/ |
cires /siʁ/ |
cire /siʁ/ |
cirions /si.ʁjɔ̃/ |
ciriez /si.ʁje/ |
cirent /siʁ/ |
| imperfect2 | cirasse /si.ʁas/ |
cirasses /si.ʁas/ |
cirât /si.ʁa/ |
cirassions /si.ʁa.sjɔ̃/ |
cirassiez /si.ʁa.sje/ |
cirassent /si.ʁas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | cire /siʁ/ |
— | cirons /si.ʁɔ̃/ |
cirez /si.ʁe/ |
— | |
| 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
Related terms
Further reading
- “cirer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
Latin
Verb
cīrer
- first-person singular imperfect passive subjunctive of ciō