sévir
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-.
infinitive | simple | sévir | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | sévissant /se.vi.sɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | sévi /se.vi/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | sévis /se.vi/ |
sévis /se.vi/ |
sévit /se.vi/ |
sévissons /se.vi.sɔ̃/ |
sévissez /se.vi.se/ |
sévissent /se.vis/ |
imperfect | sévissais /se.vi.sɛ/ |
sévissais /se.vi.sɛ/ |
sévissait /se.vi.sɛ/ |
sévissions /se.vi.sjɔ̃/ |
sévissiez /se.vi.sje/ |
sévissaient /se.vi.sɛ/ | |
past historic2 | sévis /se.vi/ |
sévis /se.vi/ |
sévit /se.vi/ |
sévîmes /se.vim/ |
sévîtes /se.vit/ |
sévirent /se.viʁ/ | |
future | sévirai /se.vi.ʁe/ |
séviras /se.vi.ʁa/ |
sévira /se.vi.ʁa/ |
sévirons /se.vi.ʁɔ̃/ |
sévirez /se.vi.ʁe/ |
séviront /se.vi.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | sévirais /se.vi.ʁɛ/ |
sévirais /se.vi.ʁɛ/ |
sévirait /se.vi.ʁɛ/ |
sévirions /se.vi.ʁjɔ̃/ |
séviriez /se.vi.ʁje/ |
séviraient /se.vi.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 | sévisse /se.vis/ |
sévisses /se.vis/ |
sévisse /se.vis/ |
sévissions /se.vi.sjɔ̃/ |
sévissiez /se.vi.sje/ |
sévissent /se.vis/ |
imperfect2 | sévisse /se.vis/ |
sévisses /se.vis/ |
sévît /se.vi/ |
sévissions /se.vi.sjɔ̃/ |
sévissiez /se.vi.sje/ |
sévissent /se.vis/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | sévis /se.vi/ |
— | sévissons /se.vi.sɔ̃/ |
sévissez /se.vi.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). |