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circonscrire
circonscrire
French
Verb
circonscrire
- to circumscribe (all meanings)
Conjugation
Conjugation of circonscrire (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | circonscrire | avoir circonscrit | |||||
| gerund | en circonscrivant | en ayant circonscrit | |||||
| present participle | circonscrivant /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.vɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | circonscrit /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | circonscris /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi/ |
circonscris /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi/ |
circonscrit /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi/ |
circonscrivons /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.vɔ̃/ |
circonscrivez /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.ve/ |
circonscrivent /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁiv/ |
| imperfect | circonscrivais /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.vɛ/ |
circonscrivais /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.vɛ/ |
circonscrivait /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.vɛ/ |
circonscrivions /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.vjɔ̃/ |
circonscriviez /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.vje/ |
circonscrivaient /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.vɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | circonscrivis /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.vi/ |
circonscrivis /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.vi/ |
circonscrivit /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.vi/ |
circonscrivîmes /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.vim/ |
circonscrivîtes /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.vit/ |
circonscrivirent /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.viʁ/ |
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| future | circonscrirai /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.ʁe/ |
circonscriras /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.ʁa/ |
circonscrira /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.ʁa/ |
circonscrirons /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.ʁɔ̃/ |
circonscrirez /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.ʁe/ |
circonscriront /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | circonscrirais /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.ʁɛ/ |
circonscrirais /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.ʁɛ/ |
circonscrirait /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.ʁɛ/ |
circonscririons /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.ʁjɔ̃/ |
circonscririez /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.ʁje/ |
circonscriraient /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.ʁɛ/ |
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| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior1 | Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | circonscrive /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁiv/ |
circonscrives /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁiv/ |
circonscrive /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁiv/ |
circonscrivions /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.vjɔ̃/ |
circonscriviez /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.vje/ |
circonscrivent /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁiv/ |
| imperfect1 |
circonscrivisse /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.vis/ |
circonscrivisses /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.vis/ |
circonscrivît /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.vi/ |
circonscrivissions /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.vi.sjɔ̃/ |
circonscrivissiez /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.vi.sje/ |
circonscrivissent /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.vis/ |
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| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | circonscris /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi/ |
— | circonscrivons /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.vɔ̃/ |
circonscrivez /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.ve/ |
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| 1literary tenses | |||||||