circonscrire

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin circumscrībō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁiʁ/

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• Rhymes: -iʁ

Verb

circonscrire

1. to circumscribe

Conjugation

Conjugation of circonscrire (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	circonscrire
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	circonscrivant /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.vɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		circonscrit /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	circonscris /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi/	circonscris /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi/	circonscrit /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi/	circonscrivons /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.vɔ̃/	circonscrivez /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.ve/	circonscrivent /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁiv/
	imperfect	circonscrivais /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.vɛ/	circonscrivais /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.vɛ/	circonscrivait /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.vɛ/	circonscrivions /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.vjɔ̃/	circonscriviez /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.vje/	circonscrivaient /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.vɛ/
	past historic2	circonscrivis /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.vi/	circonscrivis /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.vi/	circonscrivit /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.vi/	circonscrivîmes /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.vim/	circonscrivîtes /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.vit/	circonscrivirent /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.viʁ/
	future	circonscrirai /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.ʁe/	circonscriras /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.ʁa/	circonscrira /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.ʁa/	circonscrirons /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.ʁɔ̃/	circonscrirez /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.ʁe/	circonscriront /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	circonscrirais /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.ʁɛ/	circonscrirais /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.ʁɛ/	circonscrirait /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.ʁɛ/	circonscririons /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.ʁjɔ̃/	circonscririez /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.ʁje/	circonscriraient /siʁ.kɔ̃s.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	circonscrive /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁiv/	circonscrives /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁiv/	circonscrive /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁiv/	circonscrivions /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.vjɔ̃/	circonscriviez /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.vje/	circonscrivent /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁiv/
	imperfect2	circonscrivisse /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.vis/	circonscrivisses /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.vis/	circonscrivît /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.vi/	circonscrivissions /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.vi.sjɔ̃/	circonscrivissiez /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.vi.sje/	circonscrivissent /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.vis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	circonscris /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi/	—	circonscrivons /siʁ.kɔ̃s.kʁi.vɔ̃/	circonscrivez /siʁ.kɔ̃s.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).

Related terms

• circonscription

Further reading

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