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suffire
suffire
French
Verb
suffire
Conjugation
Conjugation of suffire (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | suffire | avoir suffi | |||||
| gerund | en suffisant | en ayant suffi | |||||
| present participle | suffisant /sy.fi.zɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | suffi /sy.fi/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | suffis /sy.fi/ |
suffis /sy.fi/ |
suffit /sy.fi/ |
suffisons /sy.fi.zɔ̃/ |
suffisez /sy.fi.ze/ |
suffisent /sy.fiz/ |
| imperfect | suffisais /sy.fi.zɛ/ |
suffisais /sy.fi.zɛ/ |
suffisait /sy.fi.zɛ/ |
suffisions /sy.fi.zjɔ̃/ |
suffisiez /sy.fi.zje/ |
suffisaient /sy.fi.zɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | suffis /sy.fi/ |
suffis /sy.fi/ |
suffit /sy.fi/ |
suffîmes /sy.fim/ |
suffîtes /sy.fit/ |
suffirent /sy.fiʁ/ |
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| future | suffirai /sy.fi.ʁe/ |
suffiras /sy.fi.ʁa/ |
suffira /sy.fi.ʁa/ |
suffirons /sy.fi.ʁɔ̃/ |
suffirez /sy.fi.ʁe/ |
suffiront /sy.fi.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | suffirais /sy.fi.ʁɛ/ |
suffirais /sy.fi.ʁɛ/ |
suffirait /sy.fi.ʁɛ/ |
suffirions /sy.fi.ʁjɔ̃/ |
suffiriez /sy.fi.ʁje/ |
suffiraient /sy.fi.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 | suffise /sy.fiz/ |
suffises /sy.fiz/ |
suffise /sy.fiz/ |
suffisions /sy.fi.zjɔ̃/ |
suffisiez /sy.fi.zje/ |
suffisent /sy.fiz/ |
| imperfect1 |
suffisse /sy.fis/ |
suffisses /sy.fis/ |
suffît /sy.fi/ |
suffissions /sy.fi.sjɔ̃/ |
suffissiez /sy.fi.sje/ |
suffissent /sy.fis/ |
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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 | – | |
| — | suffis /sy.fi/ |
— | suffisons /sy.fi.zɔ̃/ |
suffisez /sy.fi.ze/ |
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| 1literary tenses | |||||||
Related terms
Usage notes
- When followed by que, suffire gives the subjunctive mood.
- The past participle of suffire is always invariable, even when used pronominally.