manuscrire

French

Etymology

Back-formation from manuscrit

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma.nys.kʁiʁ/

Verb

manuscrire

1. to handwrite

Conjugation

Conjugation of manuscrire (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	manuscrire
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	manuscrivant /ma.nys.kʁi.vɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		manuscrit /ma.nys.kʁi/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	manuscris /ma.nys.kʁi/	manuscris /ma.nys.kʁi/	manuscrit /ma.nys.kʁi/	manuscrivons /ma.nys.kʁi.vɔ̃/	manuscrivez /ma.nys.kʁi.ve/	manuscrivent /ma.nys.kʁiv/
	imperfect	manuscrivais /ma.nys.kʁi.vɛ/	manuscrivais /ma.nys.kʁi.vɛ/	manuscrivait /ma.nys.kʁi.vɛ/	manuscrivions /ma.nys.kʁi.vjɔ̃/	manuscriviez /ma.nys.kʁi.vje/	manuscrivaient /ma.nys.kʁi.vɛ/
	past historic2	manuscrivis /ma.nys.kʁi.vi/	manuscrivis /ma.nys.kʁi.vi/	manuscrivit /ma.nys.kʁi.vi/	manuscrivîmes /ma.nys.kʁi.vim/	manuscrivîtes /ma.nys.kʁi.vit/	manuscrivirent /ma.nys.kʁi.viʁ/
	future	manuscrirai /ma.nys.kʁi.ʁe/	manuscriras /ma.nys.kʁi.ʁa/	manuscrira /ma.nys.kʁi.ʁa/	manuscrirons /ma.nys.kʁi.ʁɔ̃/	manuscrirez /ma.nys.kʁi.ʁe/	manuscriront /ma.nys.kʁi.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	manuscrirais /ma.nys.kʁi.ʁɛ/	manuscrirais /ma.nys.kʁi.ʁɛ/	manuscrirait /ma.nys.kʁi.ʁɛ/	manuscririons /ma.nys.kʁi.ʁjɔ̃/	manuscririez /ma.nys.kʁi.ʁje/	manuscriraient /ma.nys.kʁi.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	manuscrive /ma.nys.kʁiv/	manuscrives /ma.nys.kʁiv/	manuscrive /ma.nys.kʁiv/	manuscrivions /ma.nys.kʁi.vjɔ̃/	manuscriviez /ma.nys.kʁi.vje/	manuscrivent /ma.nys.kʁiv/
	imperfect2	manuscrivisse /ma.nys.kʁi.vis/	manuscrivisses /ma.nys.kʁi.vis/	manuscrivît /ma.nys.kʁi.vi/	manuscrivissions /ma.nys.kʁi.vi.sjɔ̃/	manuscrivissiez /ma.nys.kʁi.vi.sje/	manuscrivissent /ma.nys.kʁi.vis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	manuscris /ma.nys.kʁi/	—	manuscrivons /ma.nys.kʁi.vɔ̃/	manuscrivez /ma.nys.kʁi.ve/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).