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

Further reading

Middle French

Verb

soucier

  1. Alternative form of soucyer
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