parcourir
French
Etymology
From par- + courir, based on Latin percurro, percurrere.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /paʁ.ku.ʁiʁ/
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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)
| infinitive | simple | parcourir | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | parcourant /paʁ.ku.ʁɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | parcouru /paʁ.ku.ʁy/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (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/ | |
| past historic2 | parcourus /paʁ.ku.ʁy/ |
parcourus /paʁ.ku.ʁy/ |
parcourut /paʁ.ku.ʁy/ |
parcourûmes /paʁ.ku.ʁym/ |
parcourûtes /paʁ.ku.ʁyt/ |
parcoururent /paʁ.ku.ʁyʁ/ | |
| future | parcourrai /paʁ.kuʁ.ʁe/ |
parcourras /paʁ.kuʁ.ʁa/ |
parcourra /paʁ.kuʁ.ʁa/ |
parcourrons /paʁ.kuʁ.ʁɔ̃/ |
parcourrez /paʁ.kuʁ.ʁe/ |
parcourront /paʁ.kuʁ.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | parcourrais /paʁ.kuʁ.ʁɛ/ |
parcourrais /paʁ.kuʁ.ʁɛ/ |
parcourrait /paʁ.kuʁ.ʁɛ/ |
parcourrions /paʁ.kuʁ.ʁjɔ̃/ |
parcourriez /paʁ.kuʁ.ʁje/ |
parcourraient /paʁ.kuʁ.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 | parcoure /paʁ.kuʁ/ |
parcoures /paʁ.kuʁ/ |
parcoure /paʁ.kuʁ/ |
parcourions /paʁ.ku.ʁjɔ̃/ |
parcouriez /paʁ.ku.ʁje/ |
parcourent /paʁ.kuʁ/ |
| imperfect2 | 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/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | parcours /paʁ.kuʁ/ |
— | parcourons /paʁ.ku.ʁɔ̃/ |
parcourez /paʁ.ku.ʁe/ |
— | |
| 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). | |||||||
Related terms
Further reading
- “parcourir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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