farcir

French

Etymology

Latin farciō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /faʁ.siʁ/

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Verb

farcir

1. (cooking) to stuff; to applying stuffing to
2. (pronominal) to get saddled with; to have to put up with

   Synonym: se taper

Conjugation

This is a regular verb of the second conjugation, like finir, choisir, and most other verbs with infinitives ending in -ir. One salient feature of this conjugation is the repeated appearance of the infix -iss-.

Conjugation of farcir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	farcir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	farcissant /faʁ.si.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		farci /faʁ.si/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	farcis /faʁ.si/	farcis /faʁ.si/	farcit /faʁ.si/	farcissons /faʁ.si.sɔ̃/	farcissez /faʁ.si.se/	farcissent /faʁ.sis/
	imperfect	farcissais /faʁ.si.sɛ/	farcissais /faʁ.si.sɛ/	farcissait /faʁ.si.sɛ/	farcissions /faʁ.si.sjɔ̃/	farcissiez /faʁ.si.sje/	farcissaient /faʁ.si.sɛ/
	past historic2	farcis /faʁ.si/	farcis /faʁ.si/	farcit /faʁ.si/	farcîmes /faʁ.sim/	farcîtes /faʁ.sit/	farcirent /faʁ.siʁ/
	future	farcirai /faʁ.si.ʁe/	farciras /faʁ.si.ʁa/	farcira /faʁ.si.ʁa/	farcirons /faʁ.si.ʁɔ̃/	farcirez /faʁ.si.ʁe/	farciront /faʁ.si.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	farcirais /faʁ.si.ʁɛ/	farcirais /faʁ.si.ʁɛ/	farcirait /faʁ.si.ʁɛ/	farcirions /faʁ.si.ʁjɔ̃/	farciriez /faʁ.si.ʁje/	farciraient /faʁ.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	farcisse /faʁ.sis/	farcisses /faʁ.sis/	farcisse /faʁ.sis/	farcissions /faʁ.si.sjɔ̃/	farcissiez /faʁ.si.sje/	farcissent /faʁ.sis/
	imperfect2	farcisse /faʁ.sis/	farcisses /faʁ.sis/	farcît /faʁ.si/	farcissions /faʁ.si.sjɔ̃/	farcissiez /faʁ.si.sje/	farcissent /faʁ.sis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	farcis /faʁ.si/	—	farcissons /faʁ.si.sɔ̃/	farcissez /faʁ.si.se/	—
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

• farce

Further reading

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