saurir

French

Etymology

From Middle French saurir, from Old French sorir, from Frankish *saurijan, from Proto-Germanic *sauzijaną (“to dry, sear”), from Proto-Germanic *sauzaz (“dry”), equivalent to saur +‎ -ir. Cognate with English sear.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɔ.ʁiʁ/, /sɔ.ʁiʁ/

Verb

saurir

1. (transitive) to smoke (herrings)
2. (transitive, Normandy) to smoke (ham)

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 saurir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	saurir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	saurissant /sɔ.ʁi.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		sauri /sɔ.ʁi/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	sauris /sɔ.ʁi/	sauris /sɔ.ʁi/	saurit /sɔ.ʁi/	saurissons /sɔ.ʁi.sɔ̃/	saurissez /sɔ.ʁi.se/	saurissent /sɔ.ʁis/
	imperfect	saurissais /sɔ.ʁi.sɛ/	saurissais /sɔ.ʁi.sɛ/	saurissait /sɔ.ʁi.sɛ/	saurissions /sɔ.ʁi.sjɔ̃/	saurissiez /sɔ.ʁi.sje/	saurissaient /sɔ.ʁi.sɛ/
	past historic2	sauris /sɔ.ʁi/	sauris /sɔ.ʁi/	saurit /sɔ.ʁi/	saurîmes /sɔ.ʁim/	saurîtes /sɔ.ʁit/	saurirent /sɔ.ʁiʁ/
	future	saurirai /sɔ.ʁi.ʁe/	sauriras /sɔ.ʁi.ʁa/	saurira /sɔ.ʁi.ʁa/	saurirons /sɔ.ʁi.ʁɔ̃/	saurirez /sɔ.ʁi.ʁe/	sauriront /sɔ.ʁi.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	saurirais /sɔ.ʁi.ʁɛ/	saurirais /sɔ.ʁi.ʁɛ/	saurirait /sɔ.ʁi.ʁɛ/	sauririons /sɔ.ʁi.ʁjɔ̃/	sauririez /sɔ.ʁi.ʁje/	sauriraient /sɔ.ʁi.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	saurisse /sɔ.ʁis/	saurisses /sɔ.ʁis/	saurisse /sɔ.ʁis/	saurissions /sɔ.ʁi.sjɔ̃/	saurissiez /sɔ.ʁi.sje/	saurissent /sɔ.ʁis/
	imperfect2	saurisse /sɔ.ʁis/	saurisses /sɔ.ʁis/	saurît /sɔ.ʁi/	saurissions /sɔ.ʁi.sjɔ̃/	saurissiez /sɔ.ʁi.sje/	saurissent /sɔ.ʁis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	sauris /sɔ.ʁi/	—	saurissons /sɔ.ʁi.sɔ̃/	saurissez /sɔ.ʁi.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: 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

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