confier

French

Etymology

Semi-learned borrowing from Latin confīdō, based on the existing French fier.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /kɔ̃.fje/
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Verb

confier

  1. to confide
    Il confie son secret à son ami.
    He confides his secret to his friend.
  2. to entrust
    Il lui confie cette tâche.
    He entrusts that task to him/her.
    confier à quelqu'un le soin de faire quelque chose ― to entrust somebody with the task of doing something

Conjugation
Conjugation of confier (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive simple confier
compound avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1 simple confiant
/kɔ̃.fjɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
past participle confié
/kɔ̃.fje/
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle, on nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses)		 present confie
/kɔ̃.fi/		 confies
/kɔ̃.fi/		 confie
/kɔ̃.fi/		 confions
/kɔ̃.fjɔ̃/		 confiez
/kɔ̃.fje/		 confient
/kɔ̃.fi/
imperfect confiais
/kɔ̃.fjɛ/		 confiais
/kɔ̃.fjɛ/		 confiait
/kɔ̃.fjɛ/		 confiions
/kɔ̃.fi.jɔ̃/		 confiiez
/kɔ̃.fi.je/		 confiaient
/kɔ̃.fjɛ/
past historic2 confiai
/kɔ̃.fje/		 confias
/kɔ̃.fja/		 confia
/kɔ̃.fja/		 confiâmes
/kɔ̃.fjam/		 confiâtes
/kɔ̃.fjat/		 confièrent
/kɔ̃.fjɛʁ/
future confierai
/kɔ̃.fi.ʁe/		 confieras
/kɔ̃.fi.ʁa/		 confiera
/kɔ̃.fi.ʁa/		 confierons
/kɔ̃.fi.ʁɔ̃/		 confierez
/kɔ̃.fi.ʁe/		 confieront
/kɔ̃.fi.ʁɔ̃/
conditional confierais
/kɔ̃.fi.ʁɛ/		 confierais
/kɔ̃.fi.ʁɛ/		 confierait
/kɔ̃.fi.ʁɛ/		 confierions
/kɔ̃.fi.ʁjɔ̃/		 confieriez
/kɔ̃.fi.ʁje/		 confieraient
/kɔ̃.fi.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 confie
/kɔ̃.fi/		 confies
/kɔ̃.fi/		 confie
/kɔ̃.fi/		 confiions
/kɔ̃.fi.jɔ̃/		 confiiez
/kɔ̃.fi.je/		 confient
/kɔ̃.fi/
imperfect2 confiasse
/kɔ̃.fjas/		 confiasses
/kɔ̃.fjas/		 confiât
/kɔ̃.fja/		 confiassions
/kɔ̃.fja.sjɔ̃/		 confiassiez
/kɔ̃.fja.sje/		 confiassent
/kɔ̃.fjas/
(compound
tenses)		 past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — confie
/kɔ̃.fi/		 — confions
/kɔ̃.fjɔ̃/		 confiez
/kɔ̃.fje/		 —
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:
  • past historic → present perfect
  • past anterior → pluperfect
  • imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive
  • pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive

(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

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