From Middle French glisser, from Old French glicier (“to slip, slide, glide”), from a merger of Old French glacier (“to slip, slide”) and Old French gliier, glier (“to slip, slide, glide”), from Frankish *glīdan (“to slide, glide”), from Proto-Germanic *glīdaną (“to glide, slide”). More at glide.
glisser
| infinitive | simple | glisser | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | glissant /ɡli.sɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | glissé /ɡli.se/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | glisse /ɡlis/ |
glisses /ɡlis/ |
glisse /ɡlis/ |
glissons /ɡli.sɔ̃/ |
glissez /ɡli.se/ |
glissent /ɡlis/ |
| imperfect | glissais /ɡli.sɛ/ |
glissais /ɡli.sɛ/ |
glissait /ɡli.sɛ/ |
glissions /ɡli.sjɔ̃/ |
glissiez /ɡli.sje/ |
glissaient /ɡli.sɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | glissai /ɡli.se/ |
glissas /ɡli.sa/ |
glissa /ɡli.sa/ |
glissâmes /ɡli.sam/ |
glissâtes /ɡli.sat/ |
glissèrent /ɡli.sɛʁ/ | |
| future | glisserai /ɡli.sʁe/ |
glisseras /ɡli.sʁa/ |
glissera /ɡli.sʁa/ |
glisserons /ɡli.sʁɔ̃/ |
glisserez /ɡli.sʁe/ |
glisseront /ɡli.sʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | glisserais /ɡli.sʁɛ/ |
glisserais /ɡli.sʁɛ/ |
glisserait /ɡli.sʁɛ/ |
glisserions /ɡli.sə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
glisseriez /ɡli.sə.ʁje/ |
glisseraient /ɡli.sʁɛ/ | |
| (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 | glisse /ɡlis/ |
glisses /ɡlis/ |
glisse /ɡlis/ |
glissions /ɡli.sjɔ̃/ |
glissiez /ɡli.sje/ |
glissent /ɡlis/ |
| imperfect2 | glissasse /ɡli.sas/ |
glissasses /ɡli.sas/ |
glissât /ɡli.sa/ |
glissassions /ɡli.sa.sjɔ̃/ |
glissassiez /ɡli.sa.sje/ |
glissassent /ɡli.sas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | glisse /ɡlis/ |
— | glissons /ɡli.sɔ̃/ |
glissez /ɡli.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 , Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||