régir

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See also: regir

French

Etymology

Semi-learned borrowing from Latin regere, with a change in conjugation. Cognate with Spanish regir.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʁe.ʒiʁ/
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Verb

régir

  1. (transitive) to govern
    La grammaire étudie les règles qui régissent une langue donnée et permettent de construire des énoncés reconnus corrects par les locuteurs natifs de cette langue.
    Grammar is the study of the rules that govern a particular language and allow the construction of utterances that native speakers of that language recognize as correct.

Conjugation

This is a regular verb of the second conjugation, like finir, choisir, and most other verbs with infinitives ending in -ir. One salient feature of this conjugation is the repeated appearance of the infix -iss-.

Conjugation of régir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive simple régir
compound avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1 simple régissant
/ʁe.ʒi.sɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
past participle régi
/ʁe.ʒi/
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle, on nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses) 		present régis
/ʁe.ʒi/ 		régis
/ʁe.ʒi/ 		régit
/ʁe.ʒi/ 		régissons
/ʁe.ʒi.sɔ̃/ 		régissez
/ʁe.ʒi.se/ 		régissent
/ʁe.ʒis/
imperfect régissais
/ʁe.ʒi.sɛ/ 		régissais
/ʁe.ʒi.sɛ/ 		régissait
/ʁe.ʒi.sɛ/ 		régissions
/ʁe.ʒi.sjɔ̃/ 		régissiez
/ʁe.ʒi.sje/ 		régissaient
/ʁe.ʒi.sɛ/
past historic2 régis
/ʁe.ʒi/ 		régis
/ʁe.ʒi/ 		régit
/ʁe.ʒi/ 		régîmes
/ʁe.ʒim/ 		régîtes
/ʁe.ʒit/ 		régirent
/ʁe.ʒiʁ/
future régirai
/ʁe.ʒi.ʁe/ 		régiras
/ʁe.ʒi.ʁa/ 		régira
/ʁe.ʒi.ʁa/ 		régirons
/ʁe.ʒi.ʁɔ̃/ 		régirez
/ʁe.ʒi.ʁe/ 		régiront
/ʁe.ʒi.ʁɔ̃/
conditional régirais
/ʁe.ʒi.ʁɛ/ 		régirais
/ʁe.ʒi.ʁɛ/ 		régirait
/ʁe.ʒi.ʁɛ/ 		régirions
/ʁe.ʒi.ʁjɔ̃/ 		régiriez
/ʁe.ʒi.ʁje/ 		régiraient
/ʁe.ʒi.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 régisse
/ʁe.ʒis/ 		régisses
/ʁe.ʒis/ 		régisse
/ʁe.ʒis/ 		régissions
/ʁe.ʒi.sjɔ̃/ 		régissiez
/ʁe.ʒi.sje/ 		régissent
/ʁe.ʒis/
imperfect2 régisse
/ʁe.ʒis/ 		régisses
/ʁe.ʒis/ 		régît
/ʁe.ʒi/ 		régissions
/ʁe.ʒi.sjɔ̃/ 		régissiez
/ʁe.ʒi.sje/ 		régissent
/ʁe.ʒis/
(compound
tenses) 		past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — régis
/ʁe.ʒi/ 		— régissons
/ʁe.ʒi.sɔ̃/ 		régissez
/ʁe.ʒi.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:
  • 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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