souloir

French

Etymology

Inherited from Latin solēre (“be accustomed”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /su.lwaʁ/

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Verb

souloir

1. (obsolete, archaic) to have the habit of, to be used to

Conjugation

Conjugation of souloir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	souloir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	soulant /su.lɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		soulu /su.ly/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	seux /sø/	seux /sø/	seut /sø/	soulons /su.lɔ̃/	soulez /su.le/	seulent /sœl/
	imperfect	soulais /su.lɛ/	soulais /su.lɛ/	soulait /su.lɛ/	soulions /su.ljɔ̃/	souliez /su.lje/	soulaient /su.lɛ/
	past historic2	soulus /su.ly/	soulus /su.ly/	soulut /su.ly/	soulûmes /su.lym/	soulûtes /su.lyt/	soulurent /su.lyʁ/
	future	soudrai /su.dʁe/	soudras /su.dʁa/	soudra /su.dʁa/	soudrons /su.dʁɔ̃/	soudrez /su.dʁe/	soudront /su.dʁɔ̃/
	conditional	soudrais /su.dʁɛ/	soudrais /su.dʁɛ/	soudrait /su.dʁɛ/	soudrions /su.dʁi.jɔ̃/	soudriez /su.dʁi.je/	soudraient /su.dʁɛ/
(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	seuille /sœj/	seuilles /sœj/	seuille /sœj/	soulions /su.ljɔ̃/	souliez /su.lje/	seuillent /sœj/
	imperfect2	soulusse /su.lys/	soulusses /su.lys/	soulût /su.ly/	soulussions /su.ly.sjɔ̃/	soulussiez /su.ly.sje/	soulussent /su.lys/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	seux /sø/	—	soulons /su.lɔ̃/	soulez /su.le/	—
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).

Further reading

• “souloir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French soloir. Attested in the infinitive at least as early as 1537.

Verb

souloir

1. to have a custom; to do habitually
   • 1537, Cicero (original author), Epistres familiaires traduictz de latin en francois et nouvellement imprimez link

     les hommes disent souloir estre faulsement rapporté

     the men say that are habitually falsely reported

Descendants

• French: souloir (obsolete)