gésir
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See also gesir
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French [edit]
Etymology [edit]
Old French gesir, from Latin iacēre, present active infinitive of iaceō. Cf Italian giacere, Spanish yacer.
Verb [edit]
gésir (defective)
- (intransitive) to lie (to be in a horizontal position or, more rarely, to be situated)
Conjugation [edit]
This is a defective verb, and is only conjugated in the present and imperfect indicative
Conjugation of gésir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | gésir | — | |||||
| gerund | en gisant | — | |||||
| present participle | gisant | ||||||
| past participle | — | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | gis | gis | gît | gisons | gisez | gisent |
| imperfect | gisais | gisais | gisait | gisions | gisiez | gisaient | |
| past historic1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| future | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| conditional | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| compound tenses |
present perfect | — | |||||
| pluperfect | — | ||||||
| past anterior1 | — | ||||||
| future perfect | — | ||||||
| conditional perfect | — | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| imperfect1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| compound tenses |
past | — | |||||
| pluperfect1 | — | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1literary tenses | |||||||
Usage notes [edit]
Only survives in modern French in ci-gît (“here lies”), found in graveyards and on tombstones
Related terms [edit]
See also [edit]
- English: gist
