figurer
Appearance
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]figurer (plural figurers)
- One who figures or calculates.
- 1962, The Book of Knowledge: The Children's Encyclopedia, page 1655:
- With its aid they are quick and nimble figurers. The next digital computer was the adding or calculating machine first completed in 1642 by the French mathematician Blaise Pascal.
Danish
[edit]Noun
[edit]figurer
Verb
[edit]figurer
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin figūrāre (infinitive figūrāre).
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]figurer
- to appear (in a list, etc.), to be included; to represent
- (reflexive) to imagine, picture
- 1862, Victor Hugo, chapter 6, in Les Misérables, Tome I : Fantine, book 1:
- Rien de plus simple à se figurer que la chambre à coucher de l’évêque.
- Nothing could be simpler than picturing the bishop's bed-chamber.
Conjugation
[edit]Conjugation of figurer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | figurer | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | figurant /fi.ɡy.ʁɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | figuré /fi.ɡy.ʁe/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | figure /fi.ɡyʁ/ |
figures /fi.ɡyʁ/ |
figure /fi.ɡyʁ/ |
figurons /fi.ɡy.ʁɔ̃/ |
figurez /fi.ɡy.ʁe/ |
figurent /fi.ɡyʁ/ |
imperfect | figurais /fi.ɡy.ʁɛ/ |
figurais /fi.ɡy.ʁɛ/ |
figurait /fi.ɡy.ʁɛ/ |
figurions /fi.ɡy.ʁjɔ̃/ |
figuriez /fi.ɡy.ʁje/ |
figuraient /fi.ɡy.ʁɛ/ | |
past historic2 | figurai /fi.ɡy.ʁe/ |
figuras /fi.ɡy.ʁa/ |
figura /fi.ɡy.ʁa/ |
figurâmes /fi.ɡy.ʁam/ |
figurâtes /fi.ɡy.ʁat/ |
figurèrent /fi.ɡy.ʁɛʁ/ | |
future | figurerai /fi.ɡy.ʁə.ʁe/ |
figureras /fi.ɡy.ʁə.ʁa/ |
figurera /fi.ɡy.ʁə.ʁa/ |
figurerons /fi.ɡy.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ |
figurerez /fi.ɡy.ʁə.ʁe/ |
figureront /fi.ɡy.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | figurerais /fi.ɡy.ʁə.ʁɛ/ |
figurerais /fi.ɡy.ʁə.ʁɛ/ |
figurerait /fi.ɡy.ʁə.ʁɛ/ |
figurerions /fi.ɡy.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
figureriez /fi.ɡy.ʁə.ʁje/ |
figureraient /fi.ɡy.ʁə.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 | figure /fi.ɡyʁ/ |
figures /fi.ɡyʁ/ |
figure /fi.ɡyʁ/ |
figurions /fi.ɡy.ʁjɔ̃/ |
figuriez /fi.ɡy.ʁje/ |
figurent /fi.ɡyʁ/ |
imperfect2 | figurasse /fi.ɡy.ʁas/ |
figurasses /fi.ɡy.ʁas/ |
figurât /fi.ɡy.ʁa/ |
figurassions /fi.ɡy.ʁa.sjɔ̃/ |
figurassiez /fi.ɡy.ʁa.sje/ |
figurassent /fi.ɡy.ʁas/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | figure /fi.ɡyʁ/ |
— | figurons /fi.ɡy.ʁɔ̃/ |
figurez /fi.ɡy.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
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “figurer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
[edit]Verb
[edit]figūrer
Norwegian Bokmål
[edit]Noun
[edit]figurer m
Swedish
[edit]Noun
[edit]figurer
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