pressentir

French

Etymology

From pré- +‎ sentir.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pʁe.sɑ̃.tiʁ/

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Verb

pressentir

1. to have a premonition
2. to foresee (mysteriously)

Conjugation

This is one of a fairly large group of irregular -ir verbs that are all conjugated the same way. Other members of this group include sortir and dormir. The most significant difference between these verbs' conjugation and that of the regular -ir verbs is that these verbs' conjugation does not use the infix -iss-. Further, this conjugation has the forms (je, tu) pressens and (il) pressent in the present indicative and imperative, whereas a regular -ir verb would have *pressentis and *pressentit (as in the past historic).

Conjugation of pressentir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	pressentir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	pressentant /pʁe.sɑ̃.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		pressenti /pʁe.sɑ̃.ti/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	pressens /pʁe.sɑ̃/	pressens /pʁe.sɑ̃/	pressent /pʁe.sɑ̃/	pressentons /pʁe.sɑ̃.tɔ̃/	pressentez /pʁe.sɑ̃.te/	pressentent /pʁe.sɑ̃t/
	imperfect	pressentais /pʁe.sɑ̃.tɛ/	pressentais /pʁe.sɑ̃.tɛ/	pressentait /pʁe.sɑ̃.tɛ/	pressentions /pʁe.sɑ̃.tjɔ̃/	pressentiez /pʁe.sɑ̃.tje/	pressentaient /pʁe.sɑ̃.tɛ/
	past historic2	pressentis /pʁe.sɑ̃.ti/	pressentis /pʁe.sɑ̃.ti/	pressentit /pʁe.sɑ̃.ti/	pressentîmes /pʁe.sɑ̃.tim/	pressentîtes /pʁe.sɑ̃.tit/	pressentirent /pʁe.sɑ̃.tiʁ/
	future	pressentirai /pʁe.sɑ̃.ti.ʁe/	pressentiras /pʁe.sɑ̃.ti.ʁa/	pressentira /pʁe.sɑ̃.ti.ʁa/	pressentirons /pʁe.sɑ̃.ti.ʁɔ̃/	pressentirez /pʁe.sɑ̃.ti.ʁe/	pressentiront /pʁe.sɑ̃.ti.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	pressentirais /pʁe.sɑ̃.ti.ʁɛ/	pressentirais /pʁe.sɑ̃.ti.ʁɛ/	pressentirait /pʁe.sɑ̃.ti.ʁɛ/	pressentirions /pʁe.sɑ̃.ti.ʁjɔ̃/	pressentiriez /pʁe.sɑ̃.ti.ʁje/	pressentiraient /pʁe.sɑ̃.ti.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	pressente /pʁe.sɑ̃t/	pressentes /pʁe.sɑ̃t/	pressente /pʁe.sɑ̃t/	pressentions /pʁe.sɑ̃.tjɔ̃/	pressentiez /pʁe.sɑ̃.tje/	pressentent /pʁe.sɑ̃t/
	imperfect2	pressentisse /pʁe.sɑ̃.tis/	pressentisses /pʁe.sɑ̃.tis/	pressentît /pʁe.sɑ̃.ti/	pressentissions /pʁe.sɑ̃.ti.sjɔ̃/	pressentissiez /pʁe.sɑ̃.ti.sje/	pressentissent /pʁe.sɑ̃.tis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	pressens /pʁe.sɑ̃/	—	pressentons /pʁe.sɑ̃.tɔ̃/	pressentez /pʁe.sɑ̃.te/	—
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

• pressentiment

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• reprissent

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /pɾe.sẽˈt͡ʃi(ʁ)/ [pɾe.sẽˈt͡ʃi(h)]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /pɾe.sẽˈt͡ʃi(ʁ)/ [pɾe.sẽˈt͡ʃi(h)]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /pɾe.sẽˈt͡ʃi(ɾ)/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /pɾe.sẽˈt͡ʃi(ʁ)/ [pɾe.sẽˈt͡ʃi(χ)]
  • (Caipira) IPA^(key): /pɾe.sẽˈt͡ʃi(ɻ)/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /pɾɨ.sẽˈtiɾ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /pɾɨ.sẽˈtiɾ/
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /pɾɨ.sẽˈti.ɾi/

• Hyphenation: pres‧sen‧tir

Verb

pressentir (first-person singular present pressinto, third-person singular present pressente, first-person singular preterite pressenti, past participle pressentido)

1. to sense, feel (have a presentment)
2. to predict

Conjugation

    Conjugation of pressentir (i-e alternation in present singular) (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)

	Singular			Plural
	First-person (eu)	Second-person (tu)	Third-person (ele / ela / você)	First-person (nós)	Second-person (vós)	Third-person (eles / elas / vocês)
Infinitive
Impersonal	pressentir
Personal	pressentir	pressentires	pressentir	pressentirmos	pressentirdes	pressentirem
Gerund
	pressentindo
Past participle
Masculine	pressentido			pressentidos
Feminine	pressentida			pressentidas
Indicative
Present	pressinto	pressentes	pressente	pressentimos	pressentis	pressentem
Imperfect	pressentia	pressentias	pressentia	pressentíamos	pressentíeis	pressentiam
Preterite	pressenti	pressentiste	pressentiu	pressentimos	pressentistes	pressentiram
Pluperfect	pressentira	pressentiras	pressentira	pressentíramos	pressentíreis	pressentiram
Future	pressentirei	pressentirás	pressentirá	pressentiremos	pressentireis	pressentirão
Conditional	pressentiria	pressentirias	pressentiria	pressentiríamos	pressentiríeis	pressentiriam
Subjunctive
Present	pressinta	pressintas	pressinta	pressintamos	pressintais	pressintam
Imperfect	pressentisse	pressentisses	pressentisse	pressentíssemos	pressentísseis	pressentissem
Future	pressentir	pressentires	pressentir	pressentirmos	pressentirdes	pressentirem
Imperative
Affirmative		pressente	pressinta	pressintamos	pressenti	pressintam
Negative (não)		não pressintas	não pressinta	não pressintamos	não pressintais	não pressintam

Further reading

• “pressentir”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “pressentir”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026