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parcourir
parcourir
French
Verb
parcourir
- to go through, to pass through
- to read through, to skim
Conjugation
This verb is conjugated like other regular -ir verbs, except that in the conditional and future tenses an extra ‘r’ is added to the end of the stem and the past participle ends in -u. All verb ending in -courir are conjugated this way.
Conjugation of parcourir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | parcourir | avoir parcouru | |||||
| gerund | en parcourant | en ayant parcouru | |||||
| present participle | parcourant /paʁ.ku.ʁɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | parcouru /paʁ.ku.ʁy/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | parcours /paʁ.kuʁ/ |
parcours /paʁ.kuʁ/ |
parcourt /paʁ.kuʁ/ |
parcourons /paʁ.ku.ʁɔ̃/ |
parcourez /paʁ.ku.ʁe/ |
parcourent /paʁ.kuʁ/ |
| imperfect | parcourais /paʁ.ku.ʁɛ/ |
parcourais /paʁ.ku.ʁɛ/ |
parcourait /paʁ.ku.ʁɛ/ |
parcourions /paʁ.ku.ʁjɔ̃/ |
parcouriez /paʁ.ku.ʁje/ |
parcouraient /paʁ.ku.ʁɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | parcourus /paʁ.ku.ʁy/ |
parcourus /paʁ.ku.ʁy/ |
parcourut /paʁ.ku.ʁy/ |
parcourûmes /paʁ.ku.ʁym/ |
parcourûtes /paʁ.ku.ʁyt/ |
parcoururent /paʁ.ku.ʁyʁ/ |
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| future | parcourrai /paʁ.ku.ʁe/ |
parcourras /paʁ.ku.ʁa/ |
parcourra /paʁ.ku.ʁa/ |
parcourrons /paʁ.ku.ʁɔ̃/ |
parcourrez /paʁ.ku.ʁe/ |
parcourront /paʁ.ku.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | parcourrais /paʁ.ku.ʁɛ/ |
parcourrais /paʁ.ku.ʁɛ/ |
parcourrait /paʁ.ku.ʁɛ/ |
parcourrions /paʁ.ku.ʁjɔ̃/ |
parcourriez /paʁ.ku.ʁje/ |
parcourraient /paʁ.ku.ʁɛ/ |
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| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior1 | Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | parcoure /paʁ.kuʁ/ |
parcoures /paʁ.kuʁ/ |
parcoure /paʁ.kuʁ/ |
parcourions /paʁ.ku.ʁjɔ̃/ |
parcouriez /paʁ.ku.ʁje/ |
parcourent /paʁ.kuʁ/ |
| imperfect1 |
parcourusse /paʁ.ku.ʁys/ |
parcourusses /paʁ.ku.ʁys/ |
parcourût /paʁ.ku.ʁy/ |
parcourussions /paʁ.ku.ʁy.sjɔ̃/ |
parcourussiez /paʁ.ku.ʁy.sje/ |
parcourussent /paʁ.ku.ʁys/ |
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| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | parcours /paʁ.kuʁ/ |
— | parcourons /paʁ.ku.ʁɔ̃/ |
parcourez /paʁ.ku.ʁe/ |
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| 1literary tenses | |||||||