pressentir
This is one of a fairly large group of irregular -ir verbs that are all conjugated the same way. Other members of this group include sortir and dormir. The most significant difference between these verbs' conjugation and that of the regular -ir verbs is that these verbs' conjugation does not use the infix -iss-. Further, this conjugation has the forms (je, tu) pressens and (il) pressent in the present indicative and imperative, whereas a regular -ir verb would have *pressentis and *pressentit (as in the past historic).
| infinitive | simple | pressentir | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | pressentant /pʁe.sɑ̃.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | pressenti /pʁe.sɑ̃.ti/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | pressens /pʁe.sɑ̃/ |
pressens /pʁe.sɑ̃/ |
pressent /pʁe.sɑ̃/ |
pressentons /pʁe.sɑ̃.tɔ̃/ |
pressentez /pʁe.sɑ̃.te/ |
pressentent /pʁe.sɑ̃t/ |
| imperfect | pressentais /pʁe.sɑ̃.tɛ/ |
pressentais /pʁe.sɑ̃.tɛ/ |
pressentait /pʁe.sɑ̃.tɛ/ |
pressentions /pʁe.sɑ̃.tjɔ̃/ |
pressentiez /pʁe.sɑ̃.tje/ |
pressentaient /pʁe.sɑ̃.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | pressentis /pʁe.sɑ̃.ti/ |
pressentis /pʁe.sɑ̃.ti/ |
pressentit /pʁe.sɑ̃.ti/ |
pressentîmes /pʁe.sɑ̃.tim/ |
pressentîtes /pʁe.sɑ̃.tit/ |
pressentirent /pʁe.sɑ̃.tiʁ/ | |
| future | pressentirai /pʁe.sɑ̃.ti.ʁe/ |
pressentiras /pʁe.sɑ̃.ti.ʁa/ |
pressentira /pʁe.sɑ̃.ti.ʁa/ |
pressentirons /pʁe.sɑ̃.ti.ʁɔ̃/ |
pressentirez /pʁe.sɑ̃.ti.ʁe/ |
pressentiront /pʁe.sɑ̃.ti.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | pressentirais /pʁe.sɑ̃.ti.ʁɛ/ |
pressentirais /pʁe.sɑ̃.ti.ʁɛ/ |
pressentirait /pʁe.sɑ̃.ti.ʁɛ/ |
pressentirions /pʁe.sɑ̃.ti.ʁjɔ̃/ |
pressentiriez /pʁe.sɑ̃.ti.ʁje/ |
pressentiraient /pʁe.sɑ̃.ti.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 | pressente /pʁe.sɑ̃t/ |
pressentes /pʁe.sɑ̃t/ |
pressente /pʁe.sɑ̃t/ |
pressentions /pʁe.sɑ̃.tjɔ̃/ |
pressentiez /pʁe.sɑ̃.tje/ |
pressentent /pʁe.sɑ̃t/ |
| imperfect2 | pressentisse /pʁe.sɑ̃.tis/ |
pressentisses /pʁe.sɑ̃.tis/ |
pressentît /pʁe.sɑ̃.ti/ |
pressentissions /pʁe.sɑ̃.ti.sjɔ̃/ |
pressentissiez /pʁe.sɑ̃.ti.sje/ |
pressentissent /pʁe.sɑ̃.tis/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | pressens /pʁe.sɑ̃/ |
— | pressentons /pʁe.sɑ̃.tɔ̃/ |
pressentez /pʁe.sɑ̃.te/ |
— | |
| 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). | |||||||
pressentir (first-person singular present pressinto, third-person singular present pressente, first-person singular preterite pressenti, past participle pressentido)