sertir
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old French sartir.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]sertir
- (transitive) to crimp
- (transitive, of jewellery) to set, socket
Conjugation
[edit]This is a regular verb of the second conjugation, like finir, choisir, and most other verbs with infinitives ending in -ir. One salient feature of this conjugation is the repeated appearance of the infix -iss-.
Conjugation of sertir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | sertir | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | sertissant /sɛʁ.ti.sɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | serti /sɛʁ.ti/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | sertis /sɛʁ.ti/ |
sertis /sɛʁ.ti/ |
sertit /sɛʁ.ti/ |
sertissons /sɛʁ.ti.sɔ̃/ |
sertissez /sɛʁ.ti.se/ |
sertissent /sɛʁ.tis/ |
| imperfect | sertissais /sɛʁ.ti.sɛ/ |
sertissais /sɛʁ.ti.sɛ/ |
sertissait /sɛʁ.ti.sɛ/ |
sertissions /sɛʁ.ti.sjɔ̃/ |
sertissiez /sɛʁ.ti.sje/ |
sertissaient /sɛʁ.ti.sɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | sertis /sɛʁ.ti/ |
sertis /sɛʁ.ti/ |
sertit /sɛʁ.ti/ |
sertîmes /sɛʁ.tim/ |
sertîtes /sɛʁ.tit/ |
sertirent /sɛʁ.tiʁ/ | |
| future | sertirai /sɛʁ.ti.ʁe/ |
sertiras /sɛʁ.ti.ʁa/ |
sertira /sɛʁ.ti.ʁa/ |
sertirons /sɛʁ.ti.ʁɔ̃/ |
sertirez /sɛʁ.ti.ʁe/ |
sertiront /sɛʁ.ti.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | sertirais /sɛʁ.ti.ʁɛ/ |
sertirais /sɛʁ.ti.ʁɛ/ |
sertirait /sɛʁ.ti.ʁɛ/ |
sertirions /sɛʁ.ti.ʁjɔ̃/ |
sertiriez /sɛʁ.ti.ʁje/ |
sertiraient /sɛʁ.ti.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 | sertisse /sɛʁ.tis/ |
sertisses /sɛʁ.tis/ |
sertisse /sɛʁ.tis/ |
sertissions /sɛʁ.ti.sjɔ̃/ |
sertissiez /sɛʁ.ti.sje/ |
sertissent /sɛʁ.tis/ |
| imperfect2 | sertisse /sɛʁ.tis/ |
sertisses /sɛʁ.tis/ |
sertît /sɛʁ.ti/ |
sertissions /sɛʁ.ti.sjɔ̃/ |
sertissiez /sɛʁ.ti.sje/ |
sertissent /sɛʁ.tis/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | sertis /sɛʁ.ti/ |
— | sertissons /sɛʁ.ti.sɔ̃/ |
sertissez /sɛʁ.ti.se/ |
— | |
| 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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “sertir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.