scier

French

Etymology

From Middle French scier, sier, from Old French seier, sier, soiier, seër, from Latin secāre, present active infinitive of secō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sje/

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Verb

scier

1. to saw, to cut with a saw

Conjugation

Conjugation of scier (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	scier
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	sciant /sjɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		scié /sje/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	scie /si/	scies /si/	scie /si/	scions /sjɔ̃/	sciez /sje/	scient /si/
	imperfect	sciais /sjɛ/	sciais /sjɛ/	sciait /sjɛ/	sciions /si.jɔ̃/	sciiez /si.je/	sciaient /sjɛ/
	past historic2	sciai /sje/	scias /sja/	scia /sja/	sciâmes /sjam/	sciâtes /sjat/	scièrent /sjɛʁ/
	future	scierai /si.ʁe/	scieras /si.ʁa/	sciera /si.ʁa/	scierons /si.ʁɔ̃/	scierez /si.ʁe/	scieront /si.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	scierais /si.ʁɛ/	scierais /si.ʁɛ/	scierait /si.ʁɛ/	scierions /si.ʁjɔ̃/	scieriez /si.ʁje/	scieraient /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	scie /si/	scies /si/	scie /si/	sciions /si.jɔ̃/	sciiez /si.je/	scient /si/
	imperfect2	sciasse /sjas/	sciasses /sjas/	sciât /sja/	sciassions /sja.sjɔ̃/	sciassiez /sja.sje/	sciassent /sjas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	scie /si/	—	scions /sjɔ̃/	sciez /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: 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

• scie
• sciage

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• cires, cirés
• cries, criés
• crise
• écris