confier
French
Etymology
Borrowed from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin confidere, present active infinitive of confido, based on the existing French fier.
Pronunciation
Verb
confier
- to confide
- Il confie son secret à son ami.
- He confides his secret to his friend.
- Il confie son secret à son ami.
- to entrust
- Il lui confie cette tâche.
- He entrusts that task to him/her.
- confier à quelqu’un le soin de faire quelque chose ― to entrust somebody with the task of doing something
- Il lui confie cette tâche.
Conjugation
Conjugation of confier (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | confier | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | confiant /kɔ̃.fjɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | confié /kɔ̃.fje/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | confie /kɔ̃.fi/ |
confies /kɔ̃.fi/ |
confie /kɔ̃.fi/ |
confions /kɔ̃.fjɔ̃/ |
confiez /kɔ̃.fje/ |
confient /kɔ̃.fi/ |
| imperfect | confiais /kɔ̃.fjɛ/ |
confiais /kɔ̃.fjɛ/ |
confiait /kɔ̃.fjɛ/ |
confiions /kɔ̃.fi.jɔ̃/ |
confiiez /kɔ̃.fi.je/ |
confiaient /kɔ̃.fjɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | confiai /kɔ̃.fje/ |
confias /kɔ̃.fja/ |
confia /kɔ̃.fja/ |
confiâmes /kɔ̃.fjam/ |
confiâtes /kɔ̃.fjat/ |
confièrent /kɔ̃.fjɛʁ/ | |
| future | confierai /kɔ̃.fi.ʁe/ |
confieras /kɔ̃.fi.ʁa/ |
confiera /kɔ̃.fi.ʁa/ |
confierons /kɔ̃.fi.ʁɔ̃/ |
confierez /kɔ̃.fi.ʁe/ |
confieront /kɔ̃.fi.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | confierais /kɔ̃.fi.ʁɛ/ |
confierais /kɔ̃.fi.ʁɛ/ |
confierait /kɔ̃.fi.ʁɛ/ |
confierions /kɔ̃.fi.ʁjɔ̃/ |
confieriez /kɔ̃.fi.ʁje/ |
confieraient /kɔ̃.fi.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 | confie /kɔ̃.fi/ |
confies /kɔ̃.fi/ |
confie /kɔ̃.fi/ |
confiions /kɔ̃.fi.jɔ̃/ |
confiiez /kɔ̃.fi.je/ |
confient /kɔ̃.fi/ |
| imperfect2 | confiasse /kɔ̃.fjas/ |
confiasses /kɔ̃.fjas/ |
confiât /kɔ̃.fja/ |
confiassions /kɔ̃.fja.sjɔ̃/ |
confiassiez /kɔ̃.fja.sje/ |
confiassent /kɔ̃.fjas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | confie /kɔ̃.fi/ |
— | confions /kɔ̃.fjɔ̃/ |
confiez /kɔ̃.fje/ |
— | |
| 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). | |||||||
Related terms
Further reading
- “confier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.