secourir

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French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French secourir, from an alteration of Old French sucurre, secorre (based on courir), from Latin succurrere.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sə.ku.ʁiʁ/
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Verb

secourir

  1. to succor; to help out

Conjugation

This verb is conjugated like other regular -ir verbs, except that in the conditional and future tenses an extra 'r' is added to the end of the stem and the past participle ends in -u. All verb ending in -courir are conjugated this way.

Conjugation of secourir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive simple secourir
compound avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1 simple secourant
/sə.ku.ʁɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
past participle secouru
/sə.ku.ʁy/
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle, on nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses) 		present secours
/sə.kuʁ/ 		secours
/sə.kuʁ/ 		secourt
/sə.kuʁ/ 		secourons
/sə.ku.ʁɔ̃/ 		secourez
/sə.ku.ʁe/ 		secourent
/sə.kuʁ/
imperfect secourais
/sə.ku.ʁɛ/ 		secourais
/sə.ku.ʁɛ/ 		secourait
/sə.ku.ʁɛ/ 		secourions
/sə.ku.ʁjɔ̃/ 		secouriez
/sə.ku.ʁje/ 		secouraient
/sə.ku.ʁɛ/
past historic2 secourus
/sə.ku.ʁy/ 		secourus
/sə.ku.ʁy/ 		secourut
/sə.ku.ʁy/ 		secourûmes
/sə.ku.ʁym/ 		secourûtes
/sə.ku.ʁyt/ 		secoururent
/sə.ku.ʁyʁ/
future secourrai
/sə.kuʁ.ʁe/ 		secourras
/sə.kuʁ.ʁa/ 		secourra
/sə.kuʁ.ʁa/ 		secourrons
/sə.kuʁ.ʁɔ̃/ 		secourrez
/sə.kuʁ.ʁe/ 		secourront
/sə.kuʁ.ʁɔ̃/
conditional secourrais
/sə.kuʁ.ʁɛ/ 		secourrais
/sə.kuʁ.ʁɛ/ 		secourrait
/sə.kuʁ.ʁɛ/ 		secourrions
/sə.kuʁ.ʁjɔ̃/ 		secourriez
/sə.kuʁ.ʁje/ 		secourraient
/sə.kuʁ.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 secoure
/sə.kuʁ/ 		secoures
/sə.kuʁ/ 		secoure
/sə.kuʁ/ 		secourions
/sə.ku.ʁjɔ̃/ 		secouriez
/sə.ku.ʁje/ 		secourent
/sə.kuʁ/
imperfect2 secourusse
/sə.ku.ʁys/ 		secourusses
/sə.ku.ʁys/ 		secourût
/sə.ku.ʁy/ 		secourussions
/sə.ku.ʁy.sjɔ̃/ 		secourussiez
/sə.ku.ʁy.sje/ 		secourussent
/sə.ku.ʁys/
(compound
tenses) 		past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — secours
/sə.kuʁ/ 		— secourons
/sə.ku.ʁɔ̃/ 		secourez
/sə.ku.ʁe/ 		—
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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Etymology

From an alteration of Old French sucurre, secorre (based on courir), from Latin succurrere, present active infinitive of succurrō.

Verb

secourir

  1. to succor; to help out

Descendants

  • French: secourir
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