soucier

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French soucyer, from Old French, inherited from Latin sollicitāre. Doublet of solliciter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /su.sje/

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Verb

soucier

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

   De quoi vous souciez-vous ?

   What are you worried about?

   Il se soucie fort peu de conserver ses amis.

   He cares very little about keeping his friends.

   Il ne se soucie de rien.

   He doesn't worry about anything.

Conjugation

Conjugation of soucier (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	soucier
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	souciant /su.sjɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		soucié /su.sje/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(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 historic2	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	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	soucie /su.si/	soucies /su.si/	soucie /su.si/	souciions /su.si.jɔ̃/	souciiez /su.si.je/	soucient /su.si/
	imperfect2	souciasse /su.sjas/	souciasses /su.sjas/	souciât /su.sja/	souciassions /su.sja.sjɔ̃/	souciassiez /su.sja.sje/	souciassent /su.sjas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	soucie /su.si/	—	soucions /su.sjɔ̃/	souciez /su.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

• insouciant
• se soucier comme d’une guigne de
• se soucier comme de l’an quarante de
• se soucier de quelque chose comme des neiges d’antan
• souci

Further reading

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

Middle French

Verb

soucier

1. Alternative form of soucyer