soucier

French

Etymology

From Middle French soucyer, from Old French, inherited from Latin sollicitāre, present active infinitive of sollicitō. Doublet of solliciter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /su.sje/

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Verb

soucier

1. (transitive, dated) to worry
2. (reflexive, se soucier) to worry (experience or feel worry)

Conjugation

  Conjugation of soucier (see also Appendix:French verbs)

		simple			compound
infinitive		soucier			avoir soucié
gerund		en souciant			en ayant soucié
present participle		souciant /su.sjɑ̃/
past participle		soucié /su.sje/
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il	nous	vous	ils
simple tenses	present	soucie /su.si/	soucies /su.si/	soucie /su.si/	soucions /su.sjɔ̃/	souciez /su.sje/	soucient /su.si/
	imperfect	souciais /su.sjɛ/	souciais /su.sjɛ/	souciait /su.sjɛ/	souciions /su.si.jɔ̃/	souciiez /su.si.je/	souciaient /su.sjɛ/
	past historic1	souciai /su.sje/	soucias /su.sja/	soucia /su.sja/	souciâmes /su.sjam/	souciâtes /su.sjat/	soucièrent /su.sjɛʁ/
	future	soucierai /su.si.ʁe/	soucieras /su.si.ʁa/	souciera /su.si.ʁa/	soucierons /su.si.ʁɔ̃/	soucierez /su.si.ʁe/	soucieront /su.si.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	soucierais /su.si.ʁɛ/	soucierais /su.si.ʁɛ/	soucierait /su.si.ʁɛ/	soucierions /su.si.ʁjɔ̃/	soucieriez /su.si.ʁje/	soucieraient /su.si.ʁɛ/
compound tenses	present perfect	Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	pluperfect	Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	past anterior1	Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	future perfect	Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	conditional perfect	Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il	que nous	que vous	qu’ils
simple tenses	present	soucie /su.si/	soucies /su.si/	soucie /su.si/	souciions /su.si.jɔ̃/	souciiez /su.si.je/	soucient /su.si/
	imperfect1	souciasse /su.sjas/	souciasses /su.sjas/	souciât /su.sja/	souciassions /su.sja.sjɔ̃/	souciassiez /su.sja.sje/	souciassent /su.sjas/
compound tenses	past	Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	pluperfect1	Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
		—	soucie /su.si/	—	soucions /su.sjɔ̃/	souciez /su.sje/	—
1literary tenses

Derived terms

• insouciant
• souci

Further reading

• “soucier” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Middle French

Verb

soucier

1. Alternative form of soucyer