sourcer
English
Etymology
Noun
sourcer (plural sourcers)
- One who sources something.
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French
Etymology
Pronunciation
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Verb
sourcer
- to source (provide a source for)
- Dans un travail universitaire, il est important de sourcer ses assertions.
- In university work, it is important to source one's statements.
- (rare) to emerge, to spring
Conjugation
This verb is part of a group of -er verbs for which 'c' is softened to a 'ç' before the vowels 'a' and 'o'.
Conjugation of sourcer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | sourcer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | sourçant /suʁ.sɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | sourcé /suʁ.se/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | source /suʁs/ |
sources /suʁs/ |
source /suʁs/ |
sourçons /suʁ.sɔ̃/ |
sourcez /suʁ.se/ |
sourcent /suʁs/ |
| imperfect | sourçais /suʁ.sɛ/ |
sourçais /suʁ.sɛ/ |
sourçait /suʁ.sɛ/ |
sourcions /suʁ.sjɔ̃/ |
sourciez /suʁ.sje/ |
sourçaient /suʁ.sɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | sourçai /suʁ.se/ |
sourças /suʁ.sa/ |
sourça /suʁ.sa/ |
sourçâmes /suʁ.sam/ |
sourçâtes /suʁ.sat/ |
sourcèrent /suʁ.sɛʁ/ | |
| future | sourcerai /suʁ.sə.ʁe/ |
sourceras /suʁ.sə.ʁa/ |
sourcera /suʁ.sə.ʁa/ |
sourcerons /suʁ.sə.ʁɔ̃/ |
sourcerez /suʁ.sə.ʁe/ |
sourceront /suʁ.sə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | sourcerais /suʁ.sə.ʁɛ/ |
sourcerais /suʁ.sə.ʁɛ/ |
sourcerait /suʁ.sə.ʁɛ/ |
sourcerions /suʁ.sə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
sourceriez /suʁ.sə.ʁje/ |
sourceraient /suʁ.sə.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 | source /suʁs/ |
sources /suʁs/ |
source /suʁs/ |
sourcions /suʁ.sjɔ̃/ |
sourciez /suʁ.sje/ |
sourcent /suʁs/ |
| imperfect2 | sourçasse /suʁ.sas/ |
sourçasses /suʁ.sas/ |
sourçât /suʁ.sa/ |
sourçassions /suʁ.sa.sjɔ̃/ |
sourçassiez /suʁ.sa.sje/ |
sourçassent /suʁ.sas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | source /suʁs/ |
— | sourçons /suʁ.sɔ̃/ |
sourcez /suʁ.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
- “sourcer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.