circonstancier

French

Etymology

From circonstance (“circumstance”) +‎ -ier.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /siʁ.kɔ̃s.tɑ̃.sje/

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• Homophones: circonstancié, circonstanciées, circonstanciés

Verb

circonstancier

1. (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		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
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: 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).

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.