Borrowed from Latin subscribere (“to sign, subscribe to”), and adapted to the French words sous and écrire.
souscrire
| infinitive | simple | souscrire | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | souscrivant /sus.kʁi.vɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | souscrit /sus.kʁi/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | souscris /sus.kʁi/ |
souscris /sus.kʁi/ |
souscrit /sus.kʁi/ |
souscrivons /sus.kʁi.vɔ̃/ |
souscrivez /sus.kʁi.ve/ |
souscrivent /sus.kʁiv/ |
| imperfect | souscrivais /sus.kʁi.vɛ/ |
souscrivais /sus.kʁi.vɛ/ |
souscrivait /sus.kʁi.vɛ/ |
souscrivions /sus.kʁi.vjɔ̃/ |
souscriviez /sus.kʁi.vje/ |
souscrivaient /sus.kʁi.vɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | souscrivis /sus.kʁi.vi/ |
souscrivis /sus.kʁi.vi/ |
souscrivit /sus.kʁi.vi/ |
souscrivîmes /sus.kʁi.vim/ |
souscrivîtes /sus.kʁi.vit/ |
souscrivirent /sus.kʁi.viʁ/ | |
| future | souscrirai /sus.kʁi.ʁe/ |
souscriras /sus.kʁi.ʁa/ |
souscrira /sus.kʁi.ʁa/ |
souscrirons /sus.kʁi.ʁɔ̃/ |
souscrirez /sus.kʁi.ʁe/ |
souscriront /sus.kʁi.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | souscrirais /sus.kʁi.ʁɛ/ |
souscrirais /sus.kʁi.ʁɛ/ |
souscrirait /sus.kʁi.ʁɛ/ |
souscririons /sus.kʁi.ʁjɔ̃/ |
souscririez /sus.kʁi.ʁje/ |
souscriraient /sus.kʁi.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 | souscrive /sus.kʁiv/ |
souscrives /sus.kʁiv/ |
souscrive /sus.kʁiv/ |
souscrivions /sus.kʁi.vjɔ̃/ |
souscriviez /sus.kʁi.vje/ |
souscrivent /sus.kʁiv/ |
| imperfect2 | souscrivisse /sus.kʁi.vis/ |
souscrivisses /sus.kʁi.vis/ |
souscrivît /sus.kʁi.vi/ |
souscrivissions /sus.kʁi.vi.sjɔ̃/ |
souscrivissiez /sus.kʁi.vi.sje/ |
souscrivissent /sus.kʁi.vis/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | souscris /sus.kʁi/ |
— | souscrivons /sus.kʁi.vɔ̃/ |
souscrivez /sus.kʁi.ve/ |
— | |
| 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). | |||||||