circonvenir

French

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin circumveniō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /siʁ.kɔ̃v.niʁ/

Verb

circonvenir

1. (transitive) to circumvent

Conjugation

This is a verb in a group of -ir verbs. All verbs ending in -venir, such as convenir and devenir, are conjugated this way. Such verbs are the only verbs whose the past historic and subjunctive imperfect endings do not start in one of these thematic vowels (-a-, -i-, -u-).

Conjugation of circonvenir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	circonvenir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	circonvenant /siʁ.kɔ̃v.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		circonvenu /siʁ.kɔ̃v.ny/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	circonviens /siʁ.kɔ̃.vjɛ̃/	circonviens /siʁ.kɔ̃.vjɛ̃/	circonvient /siʁ.kɔ̃.vjɛ̃/	circonvenons /siʁ.kɔ̃v.nɔ̃/	circonvenez /siʁ.kɔ̃v.ne/	circonviennent /siʁ.kɔ̃.vjɛn/
	imperfect	circonvenais /siʁ.kɔ̃v.nɛ/	circonvenais /siʁ.kɔ̃v.nɛ/	circonvenait /siʁ.kɔ̃v.nɛ/	circonvenions /siʁ.kɔ̃.və.njɔ̃/	circonveniez /siʁ.kɔ̃.və.nje/	circonvenaient /siʁ.kɔ̃v.nɛ/
	past historic2	circonvins /siʁ.kɔ̃.vɛ̃/	circonvins /siʁ.kɔ̃.vɛ̃/	circonvint /siʁ.kɔ̃.vɛ̃/	circonvînmes /siʁ.kɔ̃.vɛ̃m/	circonvîntes /siʁ.kɔ̃.vɛ̃t/	circonvinrent /siʁ.kɔ̃.vɛ̃ʁ/
	future	circonviendrai /siʁ.kɔ̃.vjɛ̃.dʁe/	circonviendras /siʁ.kɔ̃.vjɛ̃.dʁa/	circonviendra /siʁ.kɔ̃.vjɛ̃.dʁa/	circonviendrons /siʁ.kɔ̃.vjɛ̃.dʁɔ̃/	circonviendrez /siʁ.kɔ̃.vjɛ̃.dʁe/	circonviendront /siʁ.kɔ̃.vjɛ̃.dʁɔ̃/
	conditional	circonviendrais /siʁ.kɔ̃.vjɛ̃.dʁɛ/	circonviendrais /siʁ.kɔ̃.vjɛ̃.dʁɛ/	circonviendrait /siʁ.kɔ̃.vjɛ̃.dʁɛ/	circonviendrions /siʁ.kɔ̃.vjɛ̃.dʁi.jɔ̃/	circonviendriez /siʁ.kɔ̃.vjɛ̃.dʁi.je/	circonviendraient /siʁ.kɔ̃.vjɛ̃.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	circonvienne /siʁ.kɔ̃.vjɛn/	circonviennes /siʁ.kɔ̃.vjɛn/	circonvienne /siʁ.kɔ̃.vjɛn/	circonvenions /siʁ.kɔ̃.və.njɔ̃/	circonveniez /siʁ.kɔ̃.və.nje/	circonviennent /siʁ.kɔ̃.vjɛn/
	imperfect2	circonvinsse /siʁ.kɔ̃.vɛ̃s/	circonvinsses /siʁ.kɔ̃.vɛ̃s/	circonvînt /siʁ.kɔ̃.vɛ̃/	circonvinssions /siʁ.kɔ̃.vɛ̃.sjɔ̃/	circonvinssiez /siʁ.kɔ̃.vɛ̃.sje/	circonvinssent /siʁ.kɔ̃.vɛ̃s/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	circonviens /siʁ.kɔ̃.vjɛ̃/	—	circonvenons /siʁ.kɔ̃v.nɔ̃/	circonvenez /siʁ.kɔ̃v.ne/	—
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

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