prédire

See also: predire and prediré

French

Etymology

From Middle French predire, borrowed from Latin praedīcere, present active infinitive of praedīcō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pʁe.diʁ/

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Verb

prédire

1. to predict, foretell

Conjugation

This verb is one of a group of -re verbs all ending in -dire. They are conjugated exactly like dire, but with a different second-person plural indicative present (that is, like confire). Members of this group include contredire and interdire.

Conjugation of prédire (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	prédire
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	prédisant /pʁe.di.zɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		prédit /pʁe.di/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	prédis /pʁe.di/	prédis /pʁe.di/	prédit /pʁe.di/	prédisons /pʁe.di.zɔ̃/	prédisez /pʁe.di.ze/	prédisent /pʁe.diz/
	imperfect	prédisais /pʁe.di.zɛ/	prédisais /pʁe.di.zɛ/	prédisait /pʁe.di.zɛ/	prédisions /pʁe.di.zjɔ̃/	prédisiez /pʁe.di.zje/	prédisaient /pʁe.di.zɛ/
	past historic2	prédis /pʁe.di/	prédis /pʁe.di/	prédit /pʁe.di/	prédîmes /pʁe.dim/	prédîtes /pʁe.dit/	prédirent /pʁe.diʁ/
	future	prédirai /pʁe.di.ʁe/	prédiras /pʁe.di.ʁa/	prédira /pʁe.di.ʁa/	prédirons /pʁe.di.ʁɔ̃/	prédirez /pʁe.di.ʁe/	prédiront /pʁe.di.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	prédirais /pʁe.di.ʁɛ/	prédirais /pʁe.di.ʁɛ/	prédirait /pʁe.di.ʁɛ/	prédirions /pʁe.di.ʁjɔ̃/	prédiriez /pʁe.di.ʁje/	prédiraient /pʁe.di.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	prédise /pʁe.diz/	prédises /pʁe.diz/	prédise /pʁe.diz/	prédisions /pʁe.di.zjɔ̃/	prédisiez /pʁe.di.zje/	prédisent /pʁe.diz/
	imperfect2	prédisse /pʁe.dis/	prédisses /pʁe.dis/	prédît /pʁe.di/	prédissions /pʁe.di.sjɔ̃/	prédissiez /pʁe.di.sje/	prédissent /pʁe.dis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	prédis /pʁe.di/	—	prédisons /pʁe.di.zɔ̃/	prédisez /pʁe.di.ze/	—
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

• dire
• prédiction

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• dépérir