se pouvoir

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French

Verb

se pouvoir

  1. (impersonal, reflexive) to be possible; may, could be
    Il se peut que je sois malade.
    I may be ill. / I could be ill.
    (literally, “It could be that I'm ill.”)

Conjugation

  • This verb is impersonal and is conjugated only in the third-person singular.
Conjugation of se pouvoir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive simple se pouvoir
compound s'être + past participle
present participle or gerund1 simple se pouvant
/sə pu.vɑ̃/
compound ayant or étant + past participle
past participle pu
/py/
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle, on nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses) 		present —2 — se peut
/sə pø/ 		— — —
imperfect — — se pouvait
/sə pu.vɛ/ 		— — —
past historic4 — — se put
/sə py/ 		— — —
future — — se pourra
/sə pu.ʁa/ 		— — —
conditional — — se pourrait
/sə pu.ʁɛ/ 		— — —
(compound
tenses) 		present perfect present indicative of s'être + past participle
pluperfect imperfect indicative of s'être + past participle
past anterior4 past historic of s'être + past participle
future perfect future of s'être + past participle
conditional perfect conditional of s'être + past participle
subjunctive que je (j’) que tu qu’il, qu’elle que nous que vous qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple
tenses) 		present —3 — se puisse
/sə pɥis/ 		— — —
imperfect4 — — se pût
/sə py/ 		— — —
(compound
tenses) 		past present subjunctive of s'être + past participle
pluperfect4 imperfect subjunctive of s'être + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — — — — — —
compound — simple imperative of s'être + past participle — simple imperative of s'être + past participle simple imperative of s'être + past participle —
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 puis when inverted.
3 puissé when inverted.
4 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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