pourvoir

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French pourveoir, from Old French porveoir (whence English purvey), from Latin prōvideō (whence English provide), from prō- +‎ videō.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /puʁ.vwaʁ/
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Rhymes: -waʁ

Verb

pourvoir

(transitive) to equip, provide, endow someone [with de ‘with’]
(transitive) to fill (a seat, job vacancy)
(intransitive) to provide [with à ‘for’]
(pronominal) to provide oneself [with de ‘with’]
(pronominal, law) to appeal [with en ‘to’]

Conjugation

Pourvoir and its derived verbs conjugate like voir, except that their past historic indicative and imperfect subjunctive are in -vu- instead of -vi-.

Conjugation of pourvoir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	compound	avoir + past participle
infinitive	simple	pourvoir
present participle or gerund¹	simple	pourvoyant /puʁ.vwa.jɑ̃/
present participle or gerund¹	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		pourvu /puʁ.vy/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	pourvois /puʁ.vwa/	pourvois /puʁ.vwa/	pourvoit /puʁ.vwa/	pourvoyons /puʁ.vwa.jɔ̃/	pourvoyez /puʁ.vwa.je/	pourvoient /puʁ.vwa/
	imperfect	pourvoyais /puʁ.vwa.jɛ/	pourvoyais /puʁ.vwa.jɛ/	pourvoyait /puʁ.vwa.jɛ/	pourvoyions /puʁ.vwaj.jɔ̃/	pourvoyiez /puʁ.vwaj.je/	pourvoyaient /puʁ.vwa.jɛ/
	past historic²	pourvus /puʁ.vy/	pourvus /puʁ.vy/	pourvut /puʁ.vy/	pourvûmes /puʁ.vym/	pourvûtes /puʁ.vyt/	pourvurent /puʁ.vyʁ/
	future	pourvoirai /puʁ.vwa.ʁe/	pourvoiras /puʁ.vwa.ʁa/	pourvoira /puʁ.vwa.ʁa/	pourvoirons /puʁ.vwa.ʁɔ̃/	pourvoirez /puʁ.vwa.ʁe/	pourvoiront /puʁ.vwa.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	pourvoirais /puʁ.vwa.ʁɛ/	pourvoirais /puʁ.vwa.ʁɛ/	pourvoirait /puʁ.vwa.ʁɛ/	pourvoirions /puʁ.vwa.ʁjɔ̃/	pourvoiriez /puʁ.vwa.ʁje/	pourvoiraient /puʁ.vwa.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	pourvoie /puʁ.vwa/	pourvoies /puʁ.vwa/	pourvoie /puʁ.vwa/	pourvoyions /puʁ.vwaj.jɔ̃/	pourvoyiez /puʁ.vwaj.je/	pourvoient /puʁ.vwa/
(simple tenses)	imperfect²	pourvusse /puʁ.vys/	pourvusses /puʁ.vys/	pourvût /puʁ.vy/	pourvussions /puʁ.vy.sjɔ̃/	pourvussiez /puʁ.vy.sje/	pourvussent /puʁ.vys/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
(compound tenses)	pluperfect²	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	~~nous~~	~~vous~~	–
simple		—	pourvois /puʁ.vwa/	—	pourvoyons /puʁ.vwa.jɔ̃/	pourvoyez /puʁ.vwa.je/	—
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).

Derived terms

Descendants

→ Romanian: prevedea (semantic loan)