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French
Etymology
Inherited from Old French gesir, from Latin iacēre.
The final -ir < Latin -ēre is regular and results from the palatalization of the preceding -c- to *, as in loisir, moisir, plaisir.
Pronunciation
Verb
gésir
- (intransitive, archaic or literary) to lie (to be in a horizontal position), especially when dead or wounded
- Ci-gît... (formula used on gravestones) ― Here lies...
- La victime gisait dans son sang. ― The victim was lying in a pool of their own blood.
- (intransitive, archaic or literary) to be located
- (intransitive, archaic or literary) to be buried, hidden
Usage notes
- This verb is mostly archaic, but survives in the literary language and in the turn of phrase ci-gît.
- The circumflex on the ‘i’ in the third-person singular present indicative has been optional since the 1990 French spelling reforms; see gît (old spelling) and git (new spelling).
Conjugation
This is a defective verb, and is only conjugated in the present and imperfect indicative.
| infinitive
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simple
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gésir
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| compound
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—
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| present participle or gerund1
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simple
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gisant
/ʒi.zɑ̃/
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| compound
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—
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| past participle
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—
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singular
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plural
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| first
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second
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third
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first
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second
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third
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| indicative
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je (j’)
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tu
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il, elle, on
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nous
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vous
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ils, elles
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(simple
tenses)
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present
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gis
/ʒi/
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gis
/ʒi/
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gît
/ʒi/
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gisons
/ʒi.zɔ̃/
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gisez
/ʒi.ze/
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gisent
/ʒiz/
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| imperfect
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gisais
/ʒi.zɛ/
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gisais
/ʒi.zɛ/
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gisait
/ʒi.zɛ/
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gisions
/ʒi.zjɔ̃/
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gisiez
/ʒi.zje/
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gisaient
/ʒi.zɛ/
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| past historic2
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—
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—
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—
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—
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—
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—
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| future
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—
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—
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—
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—
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—
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—
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| conditional
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—
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—
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—
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—
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—
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—
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(compound
tenses)
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present perfect
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—
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| pluperfect
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—
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| past anterior2
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—
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| future perfect
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—
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| conditional perfect
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—
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| subjunctive
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que je (j’)
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que tu
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qu’il, qu’elle
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que nous
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que vous
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qu’ils, qu’elles
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(simple
tenses)
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present
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—
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—
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—
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—
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—
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—
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| imperfect2
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—
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—
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—
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—
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—
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—
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(compound
tenses)
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past
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—
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| pluperfect2
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—
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| imperative
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–
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tu
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–
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nous
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vous
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–
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| simple
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—
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—
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—
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—
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—
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—
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| compound
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—
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—
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—
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—
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—
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—
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| 1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
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2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
- past historic → present perfect
- past anterior → pluperfect
- imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive
- pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive
(Christopher Kendris , Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).
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