saisir

French

Etymology

From Old French seisir (whence English seize), from Medieval Latin saciō, sacīre (“lay claim to, take seisin”), from Frankish *sakjan (“to sue, litigate; accuse”).[1][2] Compare Old English sacian (“to strive, brawl”), Faroese saka (“to hurt; accuse”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sɛ.ziʁ/
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Verb

saisir

  1. to take hold of; to grab
  2. to seize, to take (an illegal product), to capture
  3. to grasp mentally; understand
  4. (computing) to capture (screen or data)
  5. (computing) To type (something) into a computer; to input.
  6. (accounting) To record (something) in an account, ledger, etc.
  7. (law) To vest a court with a case; to refer a matter to a court.

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 saisir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
simple compound
infinitive saisir avoir saisi
gerund en saisissant en ayant saisi
present participle saisissant
/sɛ.zi.sɑ̃/
past participle saisi
/sɛ.zi/
person singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il nous vous ils
simple
tenses		 present saisis
/sɛ.zi/		 saisis
/sɛ.zi/		 saisit
/sɛ.zi/		 saisissons
/sɛ.zi.sɔ̃/		 saisissez
/sɛ.zi.se/		 saisissent
/sɛ.zis/
imperfect saisissais
/sɛ.zi.sɛ/		 saisissais
/sɛ.zi.sɛ/		 saisissait
/sɛ.zi.sɛ/		 saisissions
/sɛ.zi.sjɔ̃/		 saisissiez
/sɛ.zi.sje/		 saisissaient
/sɛ.zi.sɛ/
past historic1 saisis
/sɛ.zi/		 saisis
/sɛ.zi/		 saisit
/sɛ.zi/		 saisîmes
/sɛ.zim/		 saisîtes
/sɛ.zit/		 saisirent
/sɛ.ziʁ/
future saisirai
/sɛ.zi.ʁe/		 saisiras
/sɛ.zi.ʁa/		 saisira
/sɛ.zi.ʁa/		 saisirons
/sɛ.zi.ʁɔ̃/		 saisirez
/sɛ.zi.ʁe/		 saisiront
/sɛ.zi.ʁɔ̃/
conditional saisirais
/sɛ.zi.ʁɛ/		 saisirais
/sɛ.zi.ʁɛ/		 saisirait
/sɛ.zi.ʁɛ/		 saisirions
/sɛ.zi.ʁjɔ̃/		 saisiriez
/sɛ.zi.ʁje/		 saisiraient
/sɛ.zi.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 saisisse
/sɛ.zis/		 saisisses
/sɛ.zis/		 saisisse
/sɛ.zis/		 saisissions
/sɛ.zi.sjɔ̃/		 saisissiez
/sɛ.zi.sje/		 saisissent
/sɛ.zis/
imperfect1 saisisse
/sɛ.zis/		 saisisses
/sɛ.zis/		 saisît
/sɛ.zi/		 saisissions
/sɛ.zi.sjɔ̃/		 saisissiez
/sɛ.zi.sje/		 saisissent
/sɛ.zis/
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 –
— saisis
/sɛ.zi/		 — saisissons
/sɛ.zi.sɔ̃/		 saisissez
/sɛ.zi.se/		 —
1literary tenses

References

  1. ↑ C. T. Onions, ed., Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology, s.v. “seize” (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1966), 807.
  2. ↑ Robert K. Barnhart & Sol Steinmetz, eds., Barnhart Dictionary of Etymology, s.v. “seize” (Bronx, NY: H. W. Wilson, 1988), 980.
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