sourire
French
Etymology
From Old French, from Vulgar Latin *subrīdĕre, from Latin subrīdēre, present active infinitive of subrīdeō (“I smile”). Compare Catalan somriure, Italian sorridere, Occitan sorire, Portuguese sorrir and Spanish sonreír.
Pronunciation
Conjugation
Conjugation of sourire (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| present participle | souriant /su.ʁjɑ̃/ | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| past participle | souri /su.ʁi/ | ||||||
| infinitive | |||||||
| simple | sourire | ||||||
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| gerund1 | |||||||
| simple | souriant /su.ʁjɑ̃/ | ||||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | souris /su.ʁi/ |
souris /su.ʁi/ |
sourit /su.ʁi/ |
sourions /su.ʁjɔ̃/ |
souriez /su.ʁje/ |
sourient /su.ʁi/ |
| imperfect | souriais /su.ʁjɛ/ |
souriais /su.ʁjɛ/ |
souriait /su.ʁjɛ/ |
souriions /su.ʁi.jɔ̃/ |
souriiez /su.ʁi.je/ |
souriaient /su.ʁjɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | souris /su.ʁi/ |
souris /su.ʁi/ |
sourit /su.ʁi/ |
sourîmes /su.ʁim/ |
sourîtes /su.ʁit/ |
sourirent /su.ʁiʁ/ | |
| future | sourirai /su.ʁi.ʁe/ |
souriras /su.ʁi.ʁa/ |
sourira /su.ʁi.ʁa/ |
sourirons /su.ʁi.ʁɔ̃/ |
sourirez /su.ʁi.ʁe/ |
souriront /su.ʁi.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | sourirais /su.ʁi.ʁɛ/ |
sourirais /su.ʁi.ʁɛ/ |
sourirait /su.ʁi.ʁɛ/ |
souririons /su.ʁi.ʁjɔ̃/ |
souririez /su.ʁi.ʁje/ |
souriraient /su.ʁi.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 | sourie /su.ʁi/ |
souries /su.ʁi/ |
sourie /su.ʁi/ |
souriions /su.ʁi.jɔ̃/ |
souriiez /su.ʁi.je/ |
sourient /su.ʁi/ |
| imperfect2 | sourisse /su.ʁis/ |
sourisses /su.ʁis/ |
sourît /su.ʁi/ |
sourissions /su.ʁi.sjɔ̃/ |
sourissiez /su.ʁi.sje/ |
sourissent /su.ʁis/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | souris /su.ʁi/ |
— | sourions /su.ʁjɔ̃/ |
souriez /su.ʁje/ |
— | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 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). | |||||||
Related terms
- see rire
Further reading
- “sourire” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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