suivre

French

Etymology

From Middle French suyvre, from Old French sivre, siure, segre, from Vulgar Latin *sequere, from alteration of Latin sequī, present active infinitive of sequor. The current French form was influenced by Old French suit, with metathesis from earlier siut, third-person singular present of sivre. Cognate with Occitan sègre, Portuguese/Spanish: seguir, Italian seguire. Compare English sue and segue.

Cognates among regional languages of France include Angevin sieudre, Bourguignon seugre, Picard suire.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /sɥivʁ/
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  • (Louisiana) IPA(key): /sɥiv(r)/, /sɥir/, /swir/

Verb

suivre

  1. to follow (literal sense)
    Je t'invite à me suivre.
    I invite you to follow me.
  2. to follow; to get (figurative sense; to understand what someone is saying)
    Il nous faut travailler dur. Tu me suis ?
    We have to work hard. Do you get me?
  3. to take (a course or a class)
    Ma sœur suit un cours d'italien.
    My sister is taking an Italian course.

Conjugation
Conjugation of suivre (see also Appendix:French verbs)
present participle suivant
/sɥi.vɑ̃/
past participle suivi
/sɥi.vi/
infinitive
simple suivre
compound avoir + past participle
gerund1
simple suivant
/sɥi.vɑ̃/
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 suis
/sɥi/		 suis
/sɥi/		 suit
/sɥi/		 suivons
/sɥi.vɔ̃/		 suivez
/sɥi.ve/		 suivent
/sɥiv/
imperfect suivais
/sɥi.vɛ/		 suivais
/sɥi.vɛ/		 suivait
/sɥi.vɛ/		 suivions
/sɥi.vjɔ̃/		 suiviez
/sɥi.vje/		 suivaient
/sɥi.vɛ/
past historic2 suivis
/sɥi.vi/		 suivis
/sɥi.vi/		 suivit
/sɥi.vi/		 suivîmes
/sɥi.vim/		 suivîtes
/sɥi.vit/		 suivirent
/sɥi.viʁ/
future suivrai
/sɥi.vʁe/		 suivras
/sɥi.vʁa/		 suivra
/sɥi.vʁa/		 suivrons
/sɥi.vʁɔ̃/		 suivrez
/sɥi.vʁe/		 suivront
/sɥi.vʁɔ̃/
conditional suivrais
/sɥi.vʁɛ/		 suivrais
/sɥi.vʁɛ/		 suivrait
/sɥi.vʁɛ/		 suivrions
/sɥi.vʁi.jɔ̃/		 suivriez
/sɥi.vʁi.je/		 suivraient
/sɥi.vʁɛ/
(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 suive
/sɥiv/		 suives
/sɥiv/		 suive
/sɥiv/		 suivions
/sɥi.vjɔ̃/		 suiviez
/sɥi.vje/		 suivent
/sɥiv/
imperfect2 suivisse
/sɥi.vis/		 suivisses
/sɥi.vis/		 suivît
/sɥi.vi/		 suivissions
/sɥi.vi.sjɔ̃/		 suivissiez
/sɥi.vi.sje/		 suivissent
/sɥi.vis/
(compound
tenses)		 past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — suis
/sɥi/		 — suivons
/sɥi.vɔ̃/		 suivez
/sɥi.ve/		 —
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).

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