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gésir
gésir
See also: gesir
French
Verb
gésir (defective)
- (intransitive, literary) to lie (to be in a horizontal position)
- (intransitive) to lie (to be left in a horizontal position)
- (intransitive) to be located
- (intransitive) to be buried, hidden
Conjugation
This is a defective verb, and is only conjugated in the present and imperfect indicative.
Conjugation of gésir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | gésir | — | |||||
| gerund | en gisant | — | |||||
| present participle | gisant /ʒi.zɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | — | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | gis /ʒi/ |
gis /ʒi/ |
gît /ʒi/ |
gisons /ʒi.zɔ̃/ |
gisez /ʒi.ze/ |
gisent /ʒiz/ |
| imperfect | gisais /ʒi.zɛ/ |
gisais /ʒi.zɛ/ |
gisait /ʒi.zɛ/ |
gisions /ʒi.zjɔ̃/ |
gisiez /ʒi.zje/ |
gisaient /ʒi.zɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| future | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| conditional | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| compound tenses |
present perfect | — | |||||
| pluperfect | — | ||||||
| past anterior1 | — | ||||||
| future perfect | — | ||||||
| conditional perfect | — | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| imperfect1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| compound tenses |
past | — | |||||
| pluperfect1 | — | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1literary tenses | |||||||
Usage notes
The circumflex on the ‘i‘ in the third-person singular present indicative has been optional since the 1990 French spelling reforms; see git.
Related terms
See also
- English: gist