remercier
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]remercier
- to thank (someone)
- (euphemistic) to fire (an employee)
Usage notes
[edit]Remercier can be used with de or pour. De is more common when the complement is an infinitive (Je te remercie d'avoir pensé à moi); both are used when the complement is a noun (Je te remercie pour/de ce beau cadeau). De with a noun is sometimes considered more formal, but both are standard.
Conjugation
[edit]Conjugation of remercier (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | remercier | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | remerciant /ʁə.mɛʁ.sjɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | remercié /ʁə.mɛʁ.sje/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | remercie /ʁə.mɛʁ.si/ |
remercies /ʁə.mɛʁ.si/ |
remercie /ʁə.mɛʁ.si/ |
remercions /ʁə.mɛʁ.sjɔ̃/ |
remerciez /ʁə.mɛʁ.sje/ |
remercient /ʁə.mɛʁ.si/ |
| imperfect | remerciais /ʁə.mɛʁ.sjɛ/ |
remerciais /ʁə.mɛʁ.sjɛ/ |
remerciait /ʁə.mɛʁ.sjɛ/ |
remerciions /ʁə.mɛʁ.si.jɔ̃/ |
remerciiez /ʁə.mɛʁ.si.je/ |
remerciaient /ʁə.mɛʁ.sjɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | remerciai /ʁə.mɛʁ.sje/ |
remercias /ʁə.mɛʁ.sja/ |
remercia /ʁə.mɛʁ.sja/ |
remerciâmes /ʁə.mɛʁ.sjam/ |
remerciâtes /ʁə.mɛʁ.sjat/ |
remercièrent /ʁə.mɛʁ.sjɛʁ/ | |
| future | remercierai /ʁə.mɛʁ.si.ʁe/ |
remercieras /ʁə.mɛʁ.si.ʁa/ |
remerciera /ʁə.mɛʁ.si.ʁa/ |
remercierons /ʁə.mɛʁ.si.ʁɔ̃/ |
remercierez /ʁə.mɛʁ.si.ʁe/ |
remercieront /ʁə.mɛʁ.si.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | remercierais /ʁə.mɛʁ.si.ʁɛ/ |
remercierais /ʁə.mɛʁ.si.ʁɛ/ |
remercierait /ʁə.mɛʁ.si.ʁɛ/ |
remercierions /ʁə.mɛʁ.si.ʁjɔ̃/ |
remercieriez /ʁə.mɛʁ.si.ʁje/ |
remercieraient /ʁə.mɛʁ.si.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 | remercie /ʁə.mɛʁ.si/ |
remercies /ʁə.mɛʁ.si/ |
remercie /ʁə.mɛʁ.si/ |
remerciions /ʁə.mɛʁ.si.jɔ̃/ |
remerciiez /ʁə.mɛʁ.si.je/ |
remercient /ʁə.mɛʁ.si/ |
| imperfect2 | remerciasse /ʁə.mɛʁ.sjas/ |
remerciasses /ʁə.mɛʁ.sjas/ |
remerciât /ʁə.mɛʁ.sja/ |
remerciassions /ʁə.mɛʁ.sja.sjɔ̃/ |
remerciassiez /ʁə.mɛʁ.sja.sje/ |
remerciassent /ʁə.mɛʁ.sjas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | remercie /ʁə.mɛʁ.si/ |
— | remercions /ʁə.mɛʁ.sjɔ̃/ |
remerciez /ʁə.mɛʁ.sje/ |
— | |
| 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). | |||||||
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “remercier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012