suivre
French
Etymology
From Middle French suyvre, from Old French sivre, siure, segre, from Vulgar Latin *sequere, from alteration of Latin sequī, present active infinitive of sequor. The current French form was influenced by Old French suit, with metathesis from earlier siut, third-person singular present of sivre. Cognate with Occitan sègre, Portuguese/Spanish: seguir, Italian seguire. Compare English sue and segue.
Cognates among regional languages of France include Angevin sieudre, Bourguignon seugre, Picard suire.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sɥivʁ/
audio (file) - (Louisiana) IPA(key): /sɥiv(r)/, /sɥir/, /swir/
Verb
suivre
- to follow (literal sense)
- Je t'invite à me suivre.
- I invite you to follow me.
- Je t'invite à me suivre.
- to follow; to get (figurative sense; to understand what someone is saying)
- Il nous faut travailler dur. Tu me suis ?
- We have to work hard. Do you get me?
- Il nous faut travailler dur. Tu me suis ?
- to take (a course or a class)
- Ma sœur suit un cours d'italien.
- My sister is taking an Italian course.
- Ma sœur suit un cours d'italien.
Conjugation
Conjugation of suivre (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| present participle | suivant /sɥi.vɑ̃/ | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| past participle | suivi /sɥi.vi/ | ||||||
| infinitive | |||||||
| simple | suivre | ||||||
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| gerund1 | |||||||
| simple | suivant /sɥi.vɑ̃/ | ||||||
| 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 | suis /sɥi/ |
suis /sɥi/ |
suit /sɥi/ |
suivons /sɥi.vɔ̃/ |
suivez /sɥi.ve/ |
suivent /sɥiv/ |
| imperfect | suivais /sɥi.vɛ/ |
suivais /sɥi.vɛ/ |
suivait /sɥi.vɛ/ |
suivions /sɥi.vjɔ̃/ |
suiviez /sɥi.vje/ |
suivaient /sɥi.vɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | suivis /sɥi.vi/ |
suivis /sɥi.vi/ |
suivit /sɥi.vi/ |
suivîmes /sɥi.vim/ |
suivîtes /sɥi.vit/ |
suivirent /sɥi.viʁ/ | |
| future | suivrai /sɥi.vʁe/ |
suivras /sɥi.vʁa/ |
suivra /sɥi.vʁa/ |
suivrons /sɥi.vʁɔ̃/ |
suivrez /sɥi.vʁe/ |
suivront /sɥi.vʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | suivrais /sɥi.vʁɛ/ |
suivrais /sɥi.vʁɛ/ |
suivrait /sɥi.vʁɛ/ |
suivrions /sɥi.vʁi.jɔ̃/ |
suivriez /sɥi.vʁi.je/ |
suivraient /sɥi.vʁɛ/ | |
| (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 | suive /sɥiv/ |
suives /sɥiv/ |
suive /sɥiv/ |
suivions /sɥi.vjɔ̃/ |
suiviez /sɥi.vje/ |
suivent /sɥiv/ |
| imperfect2 | suivisse /sɥi.vis/ |
suivisses /sɥi.vis/ |
suivît /sɥi.vi/ |
suivissions /sɥi.vi.sjɔ̃/ |
suivissiez /sɥi.vi.sje/ |
suivissent /sɥi.vis/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | suis /sɥi/ |
— | suivons /sɥi.vɔ̃/ |
suivez /sɥi.ve/ |
— | |
| 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). | |||||||
Antonyms
Related terms
- poursuivre
- suite
- suiveur
- suivisme
- suiviste
- à suivre
Further reading
- “suivre” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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