Inherited from Old French coillir, formed analogically, with the verbal suffix -ir, from cueil, stressed conjugated form of the original cueudre, cueildre, cueldre, from Latin colligere (“collect”), from con- (“with, together”) + legō (“bring together, gather, collect”). Doublet of colliger.
cueillir
| infinitive | simple | cueillir | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | cueillant /kœ.jɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | cueilli /kœ.ji/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | cueille /kœj/ |
cueilles /kœj/ |
cueille /kœj/ |
cueillons /kœ.jɔ̃/ |
cueillez /kœ.je/ |
cueillent /kœj/ |
| imperfect | cueillais /kœ.jɛ/ |
cueillais /kœ.jɛ/ |
cueillait /kœ.jɛ/ |
cueillions /kœj.jɔ̃/ |
cueilliez /kœj.je/ |
cueillaient /kœ.jɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | cueillis /kœ.ji/ |
cueillis /kœ.ji/ |
cueillit /kœ.ji/ |
cueillîmes /kœ.jim/ |
cueillîtes /kœ.jit/ |
cueillirent /kœ.jiʁ/ | |
| future | cueillirai or cueillerai /kœ.ji.ʁe/ or /kœj.ʁe/ |
cueilliras or cueilleras /kœ.ji.ʁa/ or /kœj.ʁa/ |
cueillira or cueillera /kœ.ji.ʁa/ or /kœj.ʁa/ |
cueillirons or cueillerons /kœ.ji.ʁɔ̃/ or /kœj.ʁɔ̃/ |
cueillirez or cueillerez /kœ.ji.ʁe/ or /kœj.ʁe/ |
cueilliront or cueilleront /kœ.ji.ʁɔ̃/ or /kœj.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | cueillirais or cueillerais /kœ.ji.ʁɛ/ or /kœj.ʁɛ/ |
cueillirais or cueillerais /kœ.ji.ʁɛ/ or /kœj.ʁɛ/ |
cueillirait or cueillerait /kœ.ji.ʁɛ/ or /kœj.ʁɛ/ |
cueillirions or cueillerions /kœ.ji.ʁjɔ̃/ or /kœ.jə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
cueilliriez or cueilleriez /kœ.ji.ʁje/ or /kœ.jə.ʁje/ |
cueilliraient or cueilleraient /kœ.ji.ʁɛ/ or /kœj.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 | cueille /kœj/ |
cueilles /kœj/ |
cueille /kœj/ |
cueillions /kœj.jɔ̃/ |
cueilliez /kœj.je/ |
cueillent /kœj/ |
| imperfect2 | cueillisse /kœ.jis/ |
cueillisses /kœ.jis/ |
cueillît /kœ.ji/ |
cueillissions /kœ.ji.sjɔ̃/ |
cueillissiez /kœ.ji.sje/ |
cueillissent /kœ.jis/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | cueille /kœj/ |
— | cueillons /kœ.jɔ̃/ |
cueillez /kœ.je/ |
— | |
| 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 , Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||