inscrire
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin inscribere, with conjugation partially based on écrire (cf. Middle French escrire).
Pronunciation
Verb
inscrire
- (transitive) to inscribe (engrave)
- (transitive) to inscribe; jot down (make notes on paper)
- (mathematics, transitive) to inscribe
- (transitive) to inscribe, sign up (to a publication, annual pass etc.)
- (reflexive) to sign up (for)
- Je m'y suis inscrite
- I've signed up for it
- Je m'y suis inscrite
- (sports) notch up, chalk up
- il a inscrit deux buts - he chalked up two goals.
Conjugation
Conjugation of inscrire (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | inscrire | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | inscrivant /ɛ̃s.kʁi.vɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | inscrit /ɛ̃s.kʁi/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | inscris /ɛ̃s.kʁi/ |
inscris /ɛ̃s.kʁi/ |
inscrit /ɛ̃s.kʁi/ |
inscrivons /ɛ̃s.kʁi.vɔ̃/ |
inscrivez /ɛ̃s.kʁi.ve/ |
inscrivent /ɛ̃s.kʁiv/ |
imperfect | inscrivais /ɛ̃s.kʁi.vɛ/ |
inscrivais /ɛ̃s.kʁi.vɛ/ |
inscrivait /ɛ̃s.kʁi.vɛ/ |
inscrivions /ɛ̃s.kʁi.vjɔ̃/ |
inscriviez /ɛ̃s.kʁi.vje/ |
inscrivaient /ɛ̃s.kʁi.vɛ/ | |
past historic2 | inscrivis /ɛ̃s.kʁi.vi/ |
inscrivis /ɛ̃s.kʁi.vi/ |
inscrivit /ɛ̃s.kʁi.vi/ |
inscrivîmes /ɛ̃s.kʁi.vim/ |
inscrivîtes /ɛ̃s.kʁi.vit/ |
inscrivirent /ɛ̃s.kʁi.viʁ/ | |
future | inscrirai /ɛ̃s.kʁi.ʁe/ |
inscriras /ɛ̃s.kʁi.ʁa/ |
inscrira /ɛ̃s.kʁi.ʁa/ |
inscrirons /ɛ̃s.kʁi.ʁɔ̃/ |
inscrirez /ɛ̃s.kʁi.ʁe/ |
inscriront /ɛ̃s.kʁi.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | inscrirais /ɛ̃s.kʁi.ʁɛ/ |
inscrirais /ɛ̃s.kʁi.ʁɛ/ |
inscrirait /ɛ̃s.kʁi.ʁɛ/ |
inscririons /ɛ̃s.kʁi.ʁjɔ̃/ |
inscririez /ɛ̃s.kʁi.ʁje/ |
inscriraient /ɛ̃s.kʁi.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 | inscrive /ɛ̃s.kʁiv/ |
inscrives /ɛ̃s.kʁiv/ |
inscrive /ɛ̃s.kʁiv/ |
inscrivions /ɛ̃s.kʁi.vjɔ̃/ |
inscriviez /ɛ̃s.kʁi.vje/ |
inscrivent /ɛ̃s.kʁiv/ |
imperfect2 | inscrivisse /ɛ̃s.kʁi.vis/ |
inscrivisses /ɛ̃s.kʁi.vis/ |
inscrivît /ɛ̃s.kʁi.vi/ |
inscrivissions /ɛ̃s.kʁi.vi.sjɔ̃/ |
inscrivissiez /ɛ̃s.kʁi.vi.sje/ |
inscrivissent /ɛ̃s.kʁi.vis/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | inscris /ɛ̃s.kʁi/ |
— | inscrivons /ɛ̃s.kʁi.vɔ̃/ |
inscrivez /ɛ̃s.kʁi.ve/ |
— | |
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
- “inscrire”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.