circoncire

French

Etymology

From Latin circumcidere.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /siʁ.kɔ̃.siʁ/

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Verb

circoncire

1. to circumcise

Conjugation

Conjugation of circoncire (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	circoncire
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	circoncisant /siʁ.kɔ̃.si.zɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		circoncis /siʁ.kɔ̃.si/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	circoncis /siʁ.kɔ̃.si/	circoncis /siʁ.kɔ̃.si/	circoncit /siʁ.kɔ̃.si/	circoncisons /siʁ.kɔ̃.si.zɔ̃/	circoncisez /siʁ.kɔ̃.si.ze/	circoncisent /siʁ.kɔ̃.siz/
	imperfect	circoncisais /siʁ.kɔ̃.si.zɛ/	circoncisais /siʁ.kɔ̃.si.zɛ/	circoncisait /siʁ.kɔ̃.si.zɛ/	circoncisions /siʁ.kɔ̃.si.zjɔ̃/	circoncisiez /siʁ.kɔ̃.si.zje/	circoncisaient /siʁ.kɔ̃.si.zɛ/
	past historic2	circoncis /siʁ.kɔ̃.si/	circoncis /siʁ.kɔ̃.si/	circoncit /siʁ.kɔ̃.si/	circoncîmes /siʁ.kɔ̃.sim/	circoncîtes /siʁ.kɔ̃.sit/	circoncirent /siʁ.kɔ̃.siʁ/
	future	circoncirai /siʁ.kɔ̃.si.ʁe/	circonciras /siʁ.kɔ̃.si.ʁa/	circoncira /siʁ.kɔ̃.si.ʁa/	circoncirons /siʁ.kɔ̃.si.ʁɔ̃/	circoncirez /siʁ.kɔ̃.si.ʁe/	circonciront /siʁ.kɔ̃.si.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	circoncirais /siʁ.kɔ̃.si.ʁɛ/	circoncirais /siʁ.kɔ̃.si.ʁɛ/	circoncirait /siʁ.kɔ̃.si.ʁɛ/	circoncirions /siʁ.kɔ̃.si.ʁjɔ̃/	circonciriez /siʁ.kɔ̃.si.ʁje/	circonciraient /siʁ.kɔ̃.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	circoncise /siʁ.kɔ̃.siz/	circoncises /siʁ.kɔ̃.siz/	circoncise /siʁ.kɔ̃.siz/	circoncisions /siʁ.kɔ̃.si.zjɔ̃/	circoncisiez /siʁ.kɔ̃.si.zje/	circoncisent /siʁ.kɔ̃.siz/
	imperfect2	circoncisse /siʁ.kɔ̃.sis/	circoncisses /siʁ.kɔ̃.sis/	circoncît /siʁ.kɔ̃.si/	circoncissions /siʁ.kɔ̃.si.sjɔ̃/	circoncissiez /siʁ.kɔ̃.si.sje/	circoncissent /siʁ.kɔ̃.sis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	circoncis /siʁ.kɔ̃.si/	—	circoncisons /siʁ.kɔ̃.si.zɔ̃/	circoncisez /siʁ.kɔ̃.si.ze/	—
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: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Derived terms

• circoncision

Further reading

• “circoncire”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.