glisser
French
Etymology
From Middle French glisser, from Old French glicier (“to slip, slide, glide”), from a merger of Old French glacier (“to slip, slide”) and Old French gliier, glier (“to slip, slide, glide”), from Old Frankish *glīdan (“to slide, glide”), from Proto-Germanic *glīdaną (“to glide, slide”). More at glide.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡli.se/
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Verb
glisser
Conjugation
Conjugation of glisser (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| present participle | glissant /ɡli.sɑ̃/ | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| past participle | glissé /ɡli.se/ | ||||||
| infinitive | |||||||
| simple | glisser | ||||||
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| gerund1 | |||||||
| simple | glissant /ɡli.sɑ̃/ | ||||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | glisse /ɡlis/ |
glisses /ɡlis/ |
glisse /ɡlis/ |
glissons /ɡli.sɔ̃/ |
glissez /ɡli.se/ |
glissent /ɡlis/ |
| imperfect | glissais /ɡli.sɛ/ |
glissais /ɡli.sɛ/ |
glissait /ɡli.sɛ/ |
glissions /ɡli.sjɔ̃/ |
glissiez /ɡli.sje/ |
glissaient /ɡli.sɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | glissai /ɡli.se/ |
glissas /ɡli.sa/ |
glissa /ɡli.sa/ |
glissâmes /ɡli.sam/ |
glissâtes /ɡli.sat/ |
glissèrent /ɡli.sɛʁ/ | |
| future | glisserai /ɡli.sʁe/ |
glisseras /ɡli.sʁa/ |
glissera /ɡli.sʁa/ |
glisserons /ɡli.sʁɔ̃/ |
glisserez /ɡli.sʁe/ |
glisseront /ɡli.sʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | glisserais /ɡli.sʁɛ/ |
glisserais /ɡli.sʁɛ/ |
glisserait /ɡli.sʁɛ/ |
glisserions /ɡli.sə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
glisseriez /ɡli.sə.ʁje/ |
glisseraient /ɡli.sʁɛ/ | |
| (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 | glisse /ɡlis/ |
glisses /ɡlis/ |
glisse /ɡlis/ |
glissions /ɡli.sjɔ̃/ |
glissiez /ɡli.sje/ |
glissent /ɡlis/ |
| imperfect2 | glissasse /ɡli.sas/ |
glissasses /ɡli.sas/ |
glissât /ɡli.sa/ |
glissassions /ɡli.sa.sjɔ̃/ |
glissassiez /ɡli.sa.sje/ |
glissassent /ɡli.sas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | glisse /ɡlis/ |
— | glissons /ɡli.sɔ̃/ |
glissez /ɡli.se/ |
— | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 Only usable with preposition en. | |||||||
| 2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Further reading
- “glisser” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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