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discourir
discourir
French
Verb
discourir
- (intransitive) to talk, discourse, hold forth
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 discourir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | discourir | avoir discouru | |||||
| gerund | en discourant | en ayant discouru | |||||
| present participle | discourant /dis.ku.ʁɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | discouru /dis.ku.ʁy/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | discours /dis.kuʁ/ |
discours /dis.kuʁ/ |
discourt /dis.kuʁ/ |
discourons /dis.ku.ʁɔ̃/ |
discourez /dis.ku.ʁe/ |
discourent /dis.kuʁ/ |
| imperfect | discourais /dis.ku.ʁɛ/ |
discourais /dis.ku.ʁɛ/ |
discourait /dis.ku.ʁɛ/ |
discourions /dis.ku.ʁjɔ̃/ |
discouriez /dis.ku.ʁje/ |
discouraient /dis.ku.ʁɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | discourus /dis.ku.ʁy/ |
discourus /dis.ku.ʁy/ |
discourut /dis.ku.ʁy/ |
discourûmes /dis.ku.ʁym/ |
discourûtes /dis.ku.ʁyt/ |
discoururent /dis.ku.ʁyʁ/ |
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| future | discourrai /dis.ku.ʁe/ |
discourras /dis.ku.ʁa/ |
discourra /dis.ku.ʁa/ |
discourrons /dis.ku.ʁɔ̃/ |
discourrez /dis.ku.ʁe/ |
discourront /dis.ku.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | discourrais /dis.ku.ʁɛ/ |
discourrais /dis.ku.ʁɛ/ |
discourrait /dis.ku.ʁɛ/ |
discourrions /dis.ku.ʁjɔ̃/ |
discourriez /dis.ku.ʁje/ |
discourraient /dis.ku.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 | discoure /dis.kuʁ/ |
discoures /dis.kuʁ/ |
discoure /dis.kuʁ/ |
discourions /dis.ku.ʁjɔ̃/ |
discouriez /dis.ku.ʁje/ |
discourent /dis.kuʁ/ |
| imperfect1 |
discourusse /dis.ku.ʁys/ |
discourusses /dis.ku.ʁys/ |
discourût /dis.ku.ʁy/ |
discourussions /dis.ku.ʁy.sjɔ̃/ |
discourussiez /dis.ku.ʁy.sje/ |
discourussent /dis.ku.ʁys/ |
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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 | – | |
| — | discours /dis.kuʁ/ |
— | discourons /dis.ku.ʁɔ̃/ |
discourez /dis.ku.ʁe/ |
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