discourir
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin discurrere, present active infinitive of discurrō.
Pronunciation
Verb
discourir
- (intransitive) to talk, discourse, hold forth
Conjugation
This verb is conjugated like other regular -ir verbs, except that in the conditional and future tenses an extra 'r' is added to the end of the stem and the past participle ends in -u. All verb ending in -courir are conjugated this way.
Conjugation of discourir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | discourir | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | discourant /dis.ku.ʁɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | discouru /dis.ku.ʁy/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | discours /dis.kuʁ/ |
discours /dis.kuʁ/ |
discourt /dis.kuʁ/ |
discourons /dis.ku.ʁɔ̃/ |
discourez /dis.ku.ʁe/ |
discourent /dis.kuʁ/ |
| imperfect | discourais /dis.ku.ʁɛ/ |
discourais /dis.ku.ʁɛ/ |
discourait /dis.ku.ʁɛ/ |
discourions /dis.ku.ʁjɔ̃/ |
discouriez /dis.ku.ʁje/ |
discouraient /dis.ku.ʁɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | discourus /dis.ku.ʁy/ |
discourus /dis.ku.ʁy/ |
discourut /dis.ku.ʁy/ |
discourûmes /dis.ku.ʁym/ |
discourûtes /dis.ku.ʁyt/ |
discoururent /dis.ku.ʁyʁ/ | |
| future | discourrai /dis.kuʁ.ʁe/ |
discourras /dis.kuʁ.ʁa/ |
discourra /dis.kuʁ.ʁa/ |
discourrons /dis.kuʁ.ʁɔ̃/ |
discourrez /dis.kuʁ.ʁe/ |
discourront /dis.kuʁ.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | discourrais /dis.kuʁ.ʁɛ/ |
discourrais /dis.kuʁ.ʁɛ/ |
discourrait /dis.kuʁ.ʁɛ/ |
discourrions /dis.kuʁ.ʁjɔ̃/ |
discourriez /dis.kuʁ.ʁje/ |
discourraient /dis.kuʁ.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 | discoure /dis.kuʁ/ |
discoures /dis.kuʁ/ |
discoure /dis.kuʁ/ |
discourions /dis.ku.ʁjɔ̃/ |
discouriez /dis.ku.ʁje/ |
discourent /dis.kuʁ/ |
| imperfect2 | discourusse /dis.ku.ʁys/ |
discourusses /dis.ku.ʁys/ |
discourût /dis.ku.ʁy/ |
discourussions /dis.ku.ʁy.sjɔ̃/ |
discourussiez /dis.ku.ʁy.sje/ |
discourussent /dis.ku.ʁys/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | discours /dis.kuʁ/ |
— | discourons /dis.ku.ʁɔ̃/ |
discourez /dis.ku.ʁe/ |
— | |
| 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
- “discourir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.