régir
See also: regir
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin regere, present active infinitive of regō, with a change in conjugation.
Pronunciation
Verb
régir
- (transitive) to govern
Conjugation
This is a regular verb of the second conjugation, like finir, choisir, and most other verbs with infinitives ending in -ir. One salient feature of this conjugation is the repeated appearance of the infix -iss-.
Conjugation of régir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | régir | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | régissant /ʁe.ʒi.sɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | régi /ʁe.ʒi/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | régis /ʁe.ʒi/ |
régis /ʁe.ʒi/ |
régit /ʁe.ʒi/ |
régissons /ʁe.ʒi.sɔ̃/ |
régissez /ʁe.ʒi.se/ |
régissent /ʁe.ʒis/ |
| imperfect | régissais /ʁe.ʒi.sɛ/ |
régissais /ʁe.ʒi.sɛ/ |
régissait /ʁe.ʒi.sɛ/ |
régissions /ʁe.ʒi.sjɔ̃/ |
régissiez /ʁe.ʒi.sje/ |
régissaient /ʁe.ʒi.sɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | régis /ʁe.ʒi/ |
régis /ʁe.ʒi/ |
régit /ʁe.ʒi/ |
régîmes /ʁe.ʒim/ |
régîtes /ʁe.ʒit/ |
régirent /ʁe.ʒiʁ/ | |
| future | régirai /ʁe.ʒi.ʁe/ |
régiras /ʁe.ʒi.ʁa/ |
régira /ʁe.ʒi.ʁa/ |
régirons /ʁe.ʒi.ʁɔ̃/ |
régirez /ʁe.ʒi.ʁe/ |
régiront /ʁe.ʒi.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | régirais /ʁe.ʒi.ʁɛ/ |
régirais /ʁe.ʒi.ʁɛ/ |
régirait /ʁe.ʒi.ʁɛ/ |
régirions /ʁe.ʒi.ʁjɔ̃/ |
régiriez /ʁe.ʒi.ʁje/ |
régiraient /ʁe.ʒi.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 | régisse /ʁe.ʒis/ |
régisses /ʁe.ʒis/ |
régisse /ʁe.ʒis/ |
régissions /ʁe.ʒi.sjɔ̃/ |
régissiez /ʁe.ʒi.sje/ |
régissent /ʁe.ʒis/ |
| imperfect2 | régisse /ʁe.ʒis/ |
régisses /ʁe.ʒis/ |
régît /ʁe.ʒi/ |
régissions /ʁe.ʒi.sjɔ̃/ |
régissiez /ʁe.ʒi.sje/ |
régissent /ʁe.ʒis/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | régis /ʁe.ʒi/ |
— | régissons /ʁe.ʒi.sɔ̃/ |
régissez /ʁe.ʒi.se/ |
— | |
| 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
- “régir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.