souffrir

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French sofrir, from Vulgar Latin *sufferīre, from Latin sufferre.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /su.fʁiʁ/
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Verb

souffrir

  1. (intransitive) to suffer
    • 2014, Indila, Égo
      On est loin, on est loin du Jardin d’Éden, entre joie et fatalité. Libérez, libérons-nous de nous-mêmes. Pourquoi souffrir lorsqu’on peut s’aimer ?
      We are far, we are far from the Garden of Eden, between joy and fate. Free us, let's be free from ourselves. Why suffer when we can love each other?
    souffrir d’une maladie héréditaire ― to suffer from a hereditary disease
  2. (transitive) to endure
    Synonyms: supporter, tolérer

Conjugation

This verb is conjugated like ouvrir and offrir. It is conjugated like a regular -er verb in the present and imperfect indicative, present subjunctive, imperative, and present participle; it is conjugated like a regular -ir verb in the infinitive, future indicative, conditional, past historic, and imperfect subjunctive; and its past participle souffert is irregular.

Conjugation of souffrir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive simple souffrir
compound avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1 simple souffrant
/su.fʁɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
past participle souffert
/su.fɛʁ/
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle, on nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses)		 present souffre
/sufʁ/		 souffres
/sufʁ/		 souffre
/sufʁ/		 souffrons
/su.fʁɔ̃/		 souffrez
/su.fʁe/		 souffrent
/sufʁ/
imperfect souffrais
/su.fʁɛ/		 souffrais
/su.fʁɛ/		 souffrait
/su.fʁɛ/		 souffrions
/su.fʁi.jɔ̃/		 souffriez
/su.fʁi.je/		 souffraient
/su.fʁɛ/
past historic2 souffris
/su.fʁi/		 souffris
/su.fʁi/		 souffrit
/su.fʁi/		 souffrîmes
/su.fʁim/		 souffrîtes
/su.fʁit/		 souffrirent
/su.fʁiʁ/
future souffrirai
/su.fʁi.ʁe/		 souffriras
/su.fʁi.ʁa/		 souffrira
/su.fʁi.ʁa/		 souffrirons
/su.fʁi.ʁɔ̃/		 souffrirez
/su.fʁi.ʁe/		 souffriront
/su.fʁi.ʁɔ̃/
conditional souffrirais
/su.fʁi.ʁɛ/		 souffrirais
/su.fʁi.ʁɛ/		 souffrirait
/su.fʁi.ʁɛ/		 souffririons
/su.fʁi.ʁjɔ̃/		 souffririez
/su.fʁi.ʁje/		 souffriraient
/su.fʁi.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 souffre
/sufʁ/		 souffres
/sufʁ/		 souffre
/sufʁ/		 souffrions
/su.fʁi.jɔ̃/		 souffriez
/su.fʁi.je/		 souffrent
/sufʁ/
imperfect2 souffrisse
/su.fʁis/		 souffrisses
/su.fʁis/		 souffrît
/su.fʁi/		 souffrissions
/su.fʁi.sjɔ̃/		 souffrissiez
/su.fʁi.sje/		 souffrissent
/su.fʁis/
(compound
tenses)		 past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — souffre
/sufʁ/		 — souffrons
/su.fʁɔ̃/		 souffrez
/su.fʁe/		 —
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).

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