sourire
French
Etymology
From Old French, from Vulgar Latin *subrīdĕre, from Latin subrīdēre, present active infinitive of subrīdeō (“I smile”). Compare Catalan somriure, Italian sorridere, Occitan sorire, Portuguese sorrir and Spanish sonreír.
Pronunciation
Noun
sourire m (plural sourires)
Verb
sourire
- to smile
Conjugation
Conjugation of sourire (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | sourire | avoir souri | |||||
| gerund | en souriant | en ayant souri | |||||
| present participle | souriant /su.ʁjɑ̃/ | ||||||
| past participle | souri /su.ʁi/ | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | souris /su.ʁi/ |
souris /su.ʁi/ |
sourit /su.ʁi/ |
sourions /su.ʁjɔ̃/ |
souriez /su.ʁje/ |
sourient /su.ʁi/ |
| imperfect | souriais /su.ʁjɛ/ |
souriais /su.ʁjɛ/ |
souriait /su.ʁjɛ/ |
souriions /su.ʁi.jɔ̃/ |
souriiez /su.ʁi.je/ |
souriaient /su.ʁjɛ/ | |
| past historic1 | souris /su.ʁi/ |
souris /su.ʁi/ |
sourit /su.ʁi/ |
sourîmes /su.ʁim/ |
sourîtes /su.ʁit/ |
sourirent /su.ʁiʁ/ | |
| future | sourirai /su.ʁi.ʁe/ |
souriras /su.ʁi.ʁa/ |
sourira /su.ʁi.ʁa/ |
sourirons /su.ʁi.ʁɔ̃/ |
sourirez /su.ʁi.ʁe/ |
souriront /su.ʁi.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | sourirais /su.ʁi.ʁɛ/ |
sourirais /su.ʁi.ʁɛ/ |
sourirait /su.ʁi.ʁɛ/ |
souririons /su.ʁi.ʁjɔ̃/ |
souririez /su.ʁi.ʁje/ |
souriraient /su.ʁi.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 | sourie /su.ʁi/ |
souries /su.ʁi/ |
sourie /su.ʁi/ |
souriions /su.ʁi.jɔ̃/ |
souriiez /su.ʁi.je/ |
sourient /su.ʁi/ |
| imperfect1 | sourisse /su.ʁis/ |
sourisses /su.ʁis/ |
sourît /su.ʁi/ |
sourissions /su.ʁi.sjɔ̃/ |
sourissiez /su.ʁi.sje/ |
sourissent /su.ʁis/ | |
| 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 | – | |
| — | souris /su.ʁi/ |
— | sourions /su.ʁjɔ̃/ |
souriez /su.ʁje/ |
— | ||
| 1literary tenses | |||||||
Further reading
- “sourire” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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