gésir
See also: gesir
French
Etymology
From Old French gesir, from Latin jacēre, iacēre, present active infinitive of iaceō, from Proto-Italic *jakēō. Cognate with Italian giacere, Spanish yacer.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʒe.ziʁ/
Verb
gésir
Usage notes
The circumflex on the ‘i‘ in the third-person singular present indicative has been optional since the 1990 French spelling reforms; see git.
Conjugation
This is a defective verb, and is only conjugated in the present and imperfect indicative.
Conjugation of gésir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| present participle | gisant /ʒi.zɑ̃/ | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| past participle | — | ||||||
| infinitive | |||||||
| simple | gésir | ||||||
| compound | — | ||||||
| gerund1 | |||||||
| simple | gisant /ʒi.zɑ̃/ | ||||||
| compound | — | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | gis /ʒi/ |
gis /ʒi/ |
gît /ʒi/ |
gisons /ʒi.zɔ̃/ |
gisez /ʒi.ze/ |
gisent /ʒiz/ |
| imperfect | gisais /ʒi.zɛ/ |
gisais /ʒi.zɛ/ |
gisait /ʒi.zɛ/ |
gisions /ʒi.zjɔ̃/ |
gisiez /ʒi.zje/ |
gisaient /ʒi.zɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| future | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| conditional | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| (compound tenses) |
present perfect | — | |||||
| pluperfect | — | ||||||
| past anterior2 | — | ||||||
| future perfect | — | ||||||
| conditional perfect | — | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| imperfect2 | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | — | |||||
| pluperfect2 | — | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| compound | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| 1 Only usable with preposition en. | |||||||
| 2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
See also
- English: gist
Further reading
- “gésir” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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