circonstancier
French
Etymology
From circonstance (“circumstance”) + -ier.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /siʁ.kɔ̃s.tɑ̃.sje/
Audio (France (Lyon)): (file) Audio (France (Somain)): (file) - Homophones: circonstancié, circonstanciées, circonstanciés
Verb
circonstancier
- (transitive) to present the circumstances of an affair
Conjugation
Conjugation of circonstancier (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | circonstancier | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | circonstanciant /siʁ.kɔ̃s.tɑ̃.sjɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | circonstancié /siʁ.kɔ̃s.tɑ̃.sje/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | circonstancie /siʁ.kɔ̃s.tɑ̃.si/ |
circonstancies /siʁ.kɔ̃s.tɑ̃.si/ |
circonstancie /siʁ.kɔ̃s.tɑ̃.si/ |
circonstancions /siʁ.kɔ̃s.tɑ̃.sjɔ̃/ |
circonstanciez /siʁ.kɔ̃s.tɑ̃.sje/ |
circonstancient /siʁ.kɔ̃s.tɑ̃.si/ |
| imperfect | circonstanciais /siʁ.kɔ̃s.tɑ̃.sjɛ/ |
circonstanciais /siʁ.kɔ̃s.tɑ̃.sjɛ/ |
circonstanciait /siʁ.kɔ̃s.tɑ̃.sjɛ/ |
circonstanciions /siʁ.kɔ̃s.tɑ̃.si.jɔ̃/ |
circonstanciiez /siʁ.kɔ̃s.tɑ̃.si.je/ |
circonstanciaient /siʁ.kɔ̃s.tɑ̃.sjɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | circonstanciai /siʁ.kɔ̃s.tɑ̃.sje/ |
circonstancias /siʁ.kɔ̃s.tɑ̃.sja/ |
circonstancia /siʁ.kɔ̃s.tɑ̃.sja/ |
circonstanciâmes /siʁ.kɔ̃s.tɑ̃.sjam/ |
circonstanciâtes /siʁ.kɔ̃s.tɑ̃.sjat/ |
circonstancièrent /siʁ.kɔ̃s.tɑ̃.sjɛʁ/ | |
| future | circonstancierai /siʁ.kɔ̃s.tɑ̃.si.ʁe/ |
circonstancieras /siʁ.kɔ̃s.tɑ̃.si.ʁa/ |
circonstanciera /siʁ.kɔ̃s.tɑ̃.si.ʁa/ |
circonstancierons /siʁ.kɔ̃s.tɑ̃.si.ʁɔ̃/ |
circonstancierez /siʁ.kɔ̃s.tɑ̃.si.ʁe/ |
circonstancieront /siʁ.kɔ̃s.tɑ̃.si.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | circonstancierais /siʁ.kɔ̃s.tɑ̃.si.ʁɛ/ |
circonstancierais /siʁ.kɔ̃s.tɑ̃.si.ʁɛ/ |
circonstancierait /siʁ.kɔ̃s.tɑ̃.si.ʁɛ/ |
circonstancierions /siʁ.kɔ̃s.tɑ̃.si.ʁjɔ̃/ |
circonstancieriez /siʁ.kɔ̃s.tɑ̃.si.ʁje/ |
circonstancieraient /siʁ.kɔ̃s.tɑ̃.si.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 | circonstancie /siʁ.kɔ̃s.tɑ̃.si/ |
circonstancies /siʁ.kɔ̃s.tɑ̃.si/ |
circonstancie /siʁ.kɔ̃s.tɑ̃.si/ |
circonstanciions /siʁ.kɔ̃s.tɑ̃.si.jɔ̃/ |
circonstanciiez /siʁ.kɔ̃s.tɑ̃.si.je/ |
circonstancient /siʁ.kɔ̃s.tɑ̃.si/ |
| imperfect2 | circonstanciasse /siʁ.kɔ̃s.tɑ̃.sjas/ |
circonstanciasses /siʁ.kɔ̃s.tɑ̃.sjas/ |
circonstanciât /siʁ.kɔ̃s.tɑ̃.sja/ |
circonstanciassions /siʁ.kɔ̃s.tɑ̃.sja.sjɔ̃/ |
circonstanciassiez /siʁ.kɔ̃s.tɑ̃.sja.sje/ |
circonstanciassent /siʁ.kɔ̃s.tɑ̃.sjas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | circonstancie /siʁ.kɔ̃s.tɑ̃.si/ |
— | circonstancions /siʁ.kɔ̃s.tɑ̃.sjɔ̃/ |
circonstanciez /siʁ.kɔ̃s.tɑ̃.sje/ |
— | |
| 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). | |||||||
Further reading
- “circonstancier” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.
- “circonstancier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.