licencier
French
Etymology
From Middle French licencier, licensier, licentier, borrowed from Medieval Latin licentiō.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /li.sɑ̃.sje/
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- Homophones: licenciai, licencié, licenciée, licenciées, licenciés, licenciez
Verb
licencier
Conjugation
Conjugation of licencier (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | licencier | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | licenciant /li.sɑ̃.sjɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | licencié /li.sɑ̃.sje/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | licencie /li.sɑ̃.si/ |
licencies /li.sɑ̃.si/ |
licencie /li.sɑ̃.si/ |
licencions /li.sɑ̃.sjɔ̃/ |
licenciez /li.sɑ̃.sje/ |
licencient /li.sɑ̃.si/ |
| imperfect | licenciais /li.sɑ̃.sjɛ/ |
licenciais /li.sɑ̃.sjɛ/ |
licenciait /li.sɑ̃.sjɛ/ |
licenciions /li.sɑ̃.si.jɔ̃/ |
licenciiez /li.sɑ̃.si.je/ |
licenciaient /li.sɑ̃.sjɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | licenciai /li.sɑ̃.sje/ |
licencias /li.sɑ̃.sja/ |
licencia /li.sɑ̃.sja/ |
licenciâmes /li.sɑ̃.sjam/ |
licenciâtes /li.sɑ̃.sjat/ |
licencièrent /li.sɑ̃.sjɛʁ/ | |
| future | licencierai /li.sɑ̃.si.ʁe/ |
licencieras /li.sɑ̃.si.ʁa/ |
licenciera /li.sɑ̃.si.ʁa/ |
licencierons /li.sɑ̃.si.ʁɔ̃/ |
licencierez /li.sɑ̃.si.ʁe/ |
licencieront /li.sɑ̃.si.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | licencierais /li.sɑ̃.si.ʁɛ/ |
licencierais /li.sɑ̃.si.ʁɛ/ |
licencierait /li.sɑ̃.si.ʁɛ/ |
licencierions /li.sɑ̃.si.ʁjɔ̃/ |
licencieriez /li.sɑ̃.si.ʁje/ |
licencieraient /li.sɑ̃.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 | licencie /li.sɑ̃.si/ |
licencies /li.sɑ̃.si/ |
licencie /li.sɑ̃.si/ |
licenciions /li.sɑ̃.si.jɔ̃/ |
licenciiez /li.sɑ̃.si.je/ |
licencient /li.sɑ̃.si/ |
| imperfect2 | licenciasse /li.sɑ̃.sjas/ |
licenciasses /li.sɑ̃.sjas/ |
licenciât /li.sɑ̃.sja/ |
licenciassions /li.sɑ̃.sja.sjɔ̃/ |
licenciassiez /li.sɑ̃.sja.sje/ |
licenciassent /li.sɑ̃.sjas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | licencie /li.sɑ̃.si/ |
— | licencions /li.sɑ̃.sjɔ̃/ |
licenciez /li.sɑ̃.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). | |||||||
Related terms
Further reading
- “licencier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.