vagir

French

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin vāgīre, present active infinitive of vāgiō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /va.ʒiʁ/

Verb

vagir

1. (chiefly of a baby or child) to wail; to howl; to bawl

Conjugation

This is a regular verb of the second conjugation, like finir, choisir, and most other verbs with infinitives ending in -ir. One salient feature of this conjugation is the repeated appearance of the infix -iss-.

Conjugation of vagir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	vagir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	vagissant /va.ʒi.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		vagi /va.ʒi/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	vagis /va.ʒi/	vagis /va.ʒi/	vagit /va.ʒi/	vagissons /va.ʒi.sɔ̃/	vagissez /va.ʒi.se/	vagissent /va.ʒis/
	imperfect	vagissais /va.ʒi.sɛ/	vagissais /va.ʒi.sɛ/	vagissait /va.ʒi.sɛ/	vagissions /va.ʒi.sjɔ̃/	vagissiez /va.ʒi.sje/	vagissaient /va.ʒi.sɛ/
	past historic2	vagis /va.ʒi/	vagis /va.ʒi/	vagit /va.ʒi/	vagîmes /va.ʒim/	vagîtes /va.ʒit/	vagirent /va.ʒiʁ/
	future	vagirai /va.ʒi.ʁe/	vagiras /va.ʒi.ʁa/	vagira /va.ʒi.ʁa/	vagirons /va.ʒi.ʁɔ̃/	vagirez /va.ʒi.ʁe/	vagiront /va.ʒi.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	vagirais /va.ʒi.ʁɛ/	vagirais /va.ʒi.ʁɛ/	vagirait /va.ʒi.ʁɛ/	vagirions /va.ʒi.ʁjɔ̃/	vagiriez /va.ʒi.ʁje/	vagiraient /va.ʒi.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	vagisse /va.ʒis/	vagisses /va.ʒis/	vagisse /va.ʒis/	vagissions /va.ʒi.sjɔ̃/	vagissiez /va.ʒi.sje/	vagissent /va.ʒis/
	imperfect2	vagisse /va.ʒis/	vagisses /va.ʒis/	vagît /va.ʒi/	vagissions /va.ʒi.sjɔ̃/	vagissiez /va.ʒi.sje/	vagissent /va.ʒis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	vagis /va.ʒi/	—	vagissons /va.ʒi.sɔ̃/	vagissez /va.ʒi.se/	—
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

• vagissement

Further reading

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