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, se soucier) to worry (experience or feel worry)

   Je me soucie peu de vous offenser.

   I'm a little worried about offending you.

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