secourir
French
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French secourir, from an alteration of Old French sucurre, secorre (based on courir), from Latin succurrere.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sə.ku.ʁiʁ/
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Verb
secourir
Conjugation
This verb is conjugated like other regular -ir verbs, except that in the conditional and future tenses an extra 'r' is added to the end of the stem and the past participle ends in -u. All verb ending in -courir are conjugated this way.
Conjugation of secourir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | secourir | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | secourant /sə.ku.ʁɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | secouru /sə.ku.ʁy/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | secours /sə.kuʁ/ |
secours /sə.kuʁ/ |
secourt /sə.kuʁ/ |
secourons /sə.ku.ʁɔ̃/ |
secourez /sə.ku.ʁe/ |
secourent /sə.kuʁ/ |
| imperfect | secourais /sə.ku.ʁɛ/ |
secourais /sə.ku.ʁɛ/ |
secourait /sə.ku.ʁɛ/ |
secourions /sə.ku.ʁjɔ̃/ |
secouriez /sə.ku.ʁje/ |
secouraient /sə.ku.ʁɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | secourus /sə.ku.ʁy/ |
secourus /sə.ku.ʁy/ |
secourut /sə.ku.ʁy/ |
secourûmes /sə.ku.ʁym/ |
secourûtes /sə.ku.ʁyt/ |
secoururent /sə.ku.ʁyʁ/ | |
| future | secourrai /sə.kuʁ.ʁe/ |
secourras /sə.kuʁ.ʁa/ |
secourra /sə.kuʁ.ʁa/ |
secourrons /sə.kuʁ.ʁɔ̃/ |
secourrez /sə.kuʁ.ʁe/ |
secourront /sə.kuʁ.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | secourrais /sə.kuʁ.ʁɛ/ |
secourrais /sə.kuʁ.ʁɛ/ |
secourrait /sə.kuʁ.ʁɛ/ |
secourrions /sə.kuʁ.ʁjɔ̃/ |
secourriez /sə.kuʁ.ʁje/ |
secourraient /sə.kuʁ.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 | secoure /sə.kuʁ/ |
secoures /sə.kuʁ/ |
secoure /sə.kuʁ/ |
secourions /sə.ku.ʁjɔ̃/ |
secouriez /sə.ku.ʁje/ |
secourent /sə.kuʁ/ |
| imperfect2 | secourusse /sə.ku.ʁys/ |
secourusses /sə.ku.ʁys/ |
secourût /sə.ku.ʁy/ |
secourussions /sə.ku.ʁy.sjɔ̃/ |
secourussiez /sə.ku.ʁy.sje/ |
secourussent /sə.ku.ʁys/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | secours /sə.kuʁ/ |
— | secourons /sə.ku.ʁɔ̃/ |
secourez /sə.ku.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
- “secourir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
Middle French
Etymology
From an alteration of Old French sucurre, secorre (based on courir), from Latin succurrere.
Verb
secourir
Descendants
- French: secourir