solfier

French

Etymology

sol + fa +‎ -ier

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɔl.fje/

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Verb

solfier

1. (transitive, intransitive) (singing) to sing using the sol-fa system

Conjugation

Conjugation of solfier (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	solfier
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	solfiant /sɔl.fjɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		solfié /sɔl.fje/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	solfie /sɔl.fi/	solfies /sɔl.fi/	solfie /sɔl.fi/	solfions /sɔl.fjɔ̃/	solfiez /sɔl.fje/	solfient /sɔl.fi/
	imperfect	solfiais /sɔl.fjɛ/	solfiais /sɔl.fjɛ/	solfiait /sɔl.fjɛ/	solfiions /sɔl.fi.jɔ̃/	solfiiez /sɔl.fi.je/	solfiaient /sɔl.fjɛ/
	past historic2	solfiai /sɔl.fje/	solfias /sɔl.fja/	solfia /sɔl.fja/	solfiâmes /sɔl.fjam/	solfiâtes /sɔl.fjat/	solfièrent /sɔl.fjɛʁ/
	future	solfierai /sɔl.fi.ʁe/	solfieras /sɔl.fi.ʁa/	solfiera /sɔl.fi.ʁa/	solfierons /sɔl.fi.ʁɔ̃/	solfierez /sɔl.fi.ʁe/	solfieront /sɔl.fi.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	solfierais /sɔl.fi.ʁɛ/	solfierais /sɔl.fi.ʁɛ/	solfierait /sɔl.fi.ʁɛ/	solfierions /sɔl.fi.ʁjɔ̃/	solfieriez /sɔl.fi.ʁje/	solfieraient /sɔl.fi.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	solfie /sɔl.fi/	solfies /sɔl.fi/	solfie /sɔl.fi/	solfiions /sɔl.fi.jɔ̃/	solfiiez /sɔl.fi.je/	solfient /sɔl.fi/
	imperfect2	solfiasse /sɔl.fjas/	solfiasses /sɔl.fjas/	solfiât /sɔl.fja/	solfiassions /sɔl.fja.sjɔ̃/	solfiassiez /sɔl.fja.sje/	solfiassent /sɔl.fjas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	solfie /sɔl.fi/	—	solfions /sɔl.fjɔ̃/	solfiez /sɔl.fje/	—
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).

Related terms

• solfège

Further reading

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