suivre
French
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French suyvre, from Old French sivre, siure, segre, from Vulgar Latin *sequere of deponent Latin sequī.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sɥivʁ/
audio (file) - (Louisiana) IPA(key): [sɥiv(r)], [sɥir], [swir]
Verb
suivre
- to follow (literal sense)
- Je t’invite à me suivre.
- I invite you to follow me.
- to follow; to get (figurative sense; to understand what someone is saying)
- Il nous faut travailler dur. Tu me suis ?
- We have to work hard. Do you get me?
- to take (a course or a class)
- Ma sœur suit un cours d’italien.
- My sister is taking an Italian course.
Conjugation
Conjugation of suivre (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | suivre | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | suivant /sɥi.vɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | suivi /sɥi.vi/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | suis /sɥi/ |
suis /sɥi/ |
suit /sɥi/ |
suivons /sɥi.vɔ̃/ |
suivez /sɥi.ve/ |
suivent /sɥiv/ |
| imperfect | suivais /sɥi.vɛ/ |
suivais /sɥi.vɛ/ |
suivait /sɥi.vɛ/ |
suivions /sɥi.vjɔ̃/ |
suiviez /sɥi.vje/ |
suivaient /sɥi.vɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | suivis /sɥi.vi/ |
suivis /sɥi.vi/ |
suivit /sɥi.vi/ |
suivîmes /sɥi.vim/ |
suivîtes /sɥi.vit/ |
suivirent /sɥi.viʁ/ | |
| future | suivrai /sɥi.vʁe/ |
suivras /sɥi.vʁa/ |
suivra /sɥi.vʁa/ |
suivrons /sɥi.vʁɔ̃/ |
suivrez /sɥi.vʁe/ |
suivront /sɥi.vʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | suivrais /sɥi.vʁɛ/ |
suivrais /sɥi.vʁɛ/ |
suivrait /sɥi.vʁɛ/ |
suivrions /sɥi.vʁi.jɔ̃/ |
suivriez /sɥi.vʁi.je/ |
suivraient /sɥi.vʁɛ/ | |
| (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 | suive /sɥiv/ |
suives /sɥiv/ |
suive /sɥiv/ |
suivions /sɥi.vjɔ̃/ |
suiviez /sɥi.vje/ |
suivent /sɥiv/ |
| imperfect2 | suivisse /sɥi.vis/ |
suivisses /sɥi.vis/ |
suivît /sɥi.vi/ |
suivissions /sɥi.vi.sjɔ̃/ |
suivissiez /sɥi.vi.sje/ |
suivissent /sɥi.vis/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | suis /sɥi/ |
— | suivons /sɥi.vɔ̃/ |
suivez /sɥi.ve/ |
— | |
| 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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Antonyms
Derived terms
Further reading
- “suivre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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