sourire
French
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French soubrire (silent b), from Old French sorrirre, from Vulgar Latin *subrīdĕre, from Latin subrīdēre.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /su.ʁiʁ/
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- Hyphenation: sou‧rire
Noun
sourire m (plural sourires)
Verb
sourire
- to smile
Conjugation
Conjugation of sourire (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | sourire | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | souriant /su.ʁjɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | souri /su.ʁi/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (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 historic2 | 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 | 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 | sourie /su.ʁi/ |
souries /su.ʁi/ |
sourie /su.ʁi/ |
souriions /su.ʁi.jɔ̃/ |
souriiez /su.ʁi.je/ |
sourient /su.ʁi/ |
| imperfect2 | sourisse /su.ʁis/ |
sourisses /su.ʁis/ |
sourît /su.ʁi/ |
sourissions /su.ʁi.sjɔ̃/ |
sourissiez /su.ʁi.sje/ |
sourissent /su.ʁis/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | souris /su.ʁi/ |
— | sourions /su.ʁjɔ̃/ |
souriez /su.ʁje/ |
— | |
| 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). | |||||||
Derived terms
Related terms
- see rire
Further reading
- “sourire”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.