Inherited from Middle French scier (with silent ⟨c⟩ in reminiscence of the Latin etymon), from earlier sier, from Old French seier~sier~soiier~seër, from Latin secāre.
scier
| infinitive | simple | scier | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | sciant /sjɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | scié /sje/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | scie /si/ |
scies /si/ |
scie /si/ |
scions /sjɔ̃/ |
sciez /sje/ |
scient /si/ |
| imperfect | sciais /sjɛ/ |
sciais /sjɛ/ |
sciait /sjɛ/ |
sciions /si.jɔ̃/ |
sciiez /si.je/ |
sciaient /sjɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | sciai /sje/ |
scias /sja/ |
scia /sja/ |
sciâmes /sjam/ |
sciâtes /sjat/ |
scièrent /sjɛʁ/ | |
| future | scierai /si.ʁe/ |
scieras /si.ʁa/ |
sciera /si.ʁa/ |
scierons /si.ʁɔ̃/ |
scierez /si.ʁe/ |
scieront /si.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | scierais /si.ʁɛ/ |
scierais /si.ʁɛ/ |
scierait /si.ʁɛ/ |
scierions /si.ʁjɔ̃/ |
scieriez /si.ʁje/ |
scieraient /si.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 | scie /si/ |
scies /si/ |
scie /si/ |
sciions /si.jɔ̃/ |
sciiez /si.je/ |
scient /si/ |
| imperfect2 | sciasse /sjas/ |
sciasses /sjas/ |
sciât /sja/ |
sciassions /sja.sjɔ̃/ |
sciassiez /sja.sje/ |
sciassent /sjas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | scie /si/ |
— | scions /sjɔ̃/ |
sciez /sje/ |
— | |
| 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). | |||||||