ensuivre

French

Etymology

Inherited from Latin īnsequor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.sɥivʁ/

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Verb

ensuivre (defective)

1. (archaic or literary) to follow (to come after)
2. (reflexive) to follow, to come next
3. (reflexive) to ensue, to result, to come as a result

   jusqu'à ce que mort s'ensuive ― till death do us part (literally, “until death ensues”)

Conjugation

This verb is defective, and is only used in the infinitive and the third-person singular and plural forms. This verb is impersonal and is conjugated only in the third-person singular.

Conjugation of s'ensuivre (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	s'ensuivre
	compound	s'être + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	s'ensuivant /sɑ̃.sɥi.vɑ̃/
	compound	ayant or étant + past participle
past participle		ensuivi /ɑ̃.sɥi.vi/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	—	—	s'ensuit /sɑ̃.sɥi/	—	—	—
	imperfect	—	—	s'ensuivait /sɑ̃.sɥi.vɛ/	—	—	—
	past historic2	—	—	s'ensuivit /sɑ̃.sɥi.vi/	—	—	—
	future	—	—	s'ensuivra /sɑ̃.sɥi.vʁa/	—	—	—
	conditional	—	—	s'ensuivrait /sɑ̃.sɥi.vʁɛ/	—	—	—
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of s'être + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of s'être + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of s'être + past participle
	future perfect	future of s'être + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of s'être + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	—	—	s'ensuive /sɑ̃.sɥiv/	—	—	—
	imperfect2	—	—	s'ensuivît /sɑ̃.sɥi.vi/	—	—	—
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of s'être + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of s'être + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	—	—	—	—	—
compound		—	simple imperative of s'être + past participle	—	simple imperative of s'être + past participle	simple imperative of s'être + 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).

Further reading

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