remercier

French

Etymology

From re- +‎ merci +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁə.mɛʁ.sje/

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Verb

remercier

1. to thank (someone)
2. (euphemistic) to fire (an employee)

Conjugation

Conjugation of remercier (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	remercier
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	remerciant /ʁə.mɛʁ.sjɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		remercié /ʁə.mɛʁ.sje/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	remercie /ʁə.mɛʁ.si/	remercies /ʁə.mɛʁ.si/	remercie /ʁə.mɛʁ.si/	remercions /ʁə.mɛʁ.sjɔ̃/	remerciez /ʁə.mɛʁ.sje/	remercient /ʁə.mɛʁ.si/
	imperfect	remerciais /ʁə.mɛʁ.sjɛ/	remerciais /ʁə.mɛʁ.sjɛ/	remerciait /ʁə.mɛʁ.sjɛ/	remerciions /ʁə.mɛʁ.si.jɔ̃/	remerciiez /ʁə.mɛʁ.si.je/	remerciaient /ʁə.mɛʁ.sjɛ/
	past historic2	remerciai /ʁə.mɛʁ.sje/	remercias /ʁə.mɛʁ.sja/	remercia /ʁə.mɛʁ.sja/	remerciâmes /ʁə.mɛʁ.sjam/	remerciâtes /ʁə.mɛʁ.sjat/	remercièrent /ʁə.mɛʁ.sjɛʁ/
	future	remercierai /ʁə.mɛʁ.si.ʁe/	remercieras /ʁə.mɛʁ.si.ʁa/	remerciera /ʁə.mɛʁ.si.ʁa/	remercierons /ʁə.mɛʁ.si.ʁɔ̃/	remercierez /ʁə.mɛʁ.si.ʁe/	remercieront /ʁə.mɛʁ.si.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	remercierais /ʁə.mɛʁ.si.ʁɛ/	remercierais /ʁə.mɛʁ.si.ʁɛ/	remercierait /ʁə.mɛʁ.si.ʁɛ/	remercierions /ʁə.mɛʁ.si.ʁjɔ̃/	remercieriez /ʁə.mɛʁ.si.ʁje/	remercieraient /ʁə.mɛʁ.si.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	remercie /ʁə.mɛʁ.si/	remercies /ʁə.mɛʁ.si/	remercie /ʁə.mɛʁ.si/	remerciions /ʁə.mɛʁ.si.jɔ̃/	remerciiez /ʁə.mɛʁ.si.je/	remercient /ʁə.mɛʁ.si/
	imperfect2	remerciasse /ʁə.mɛʁ.sjas/	remerciasses /ʁə.mɛʁ.sjas/	remerciât /ʁə.mɛʁ.sja/	remerciassions /ʁə.mɛʁ.sja.sjɔ̃/	remerciassiez /ʁə.mɛʁ.sja.sje/	remerciassent /ʁə.mɛʁ.sjas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	remercie /ʁə.mɛʁ.si/	—	remercions /ʁə.mɛʁ.sjɔ̃/	remerciez /ʁə.mɛʁ.sje/	—
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).

Derived terms

• remerciement

Further reading

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