parcourir

French

Etymology

From par- +‎ courir, based on Latin percurrere.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /paʁ.ku.ʁiʁ/

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Verb

parcourir

1. to go through, to pass through
2. to read through, to skim

Conjugation

This verb is conjugated like other regular -ir verbs, except that in the conditional and future tenses an extra 'r' is added to the end of the stem and the past participle ends in -u. All verb ending in -courir are conjugated this way.

Conjugation of parcourir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	parcourir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	parcourant /paʁ.ku.ʁɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		parcouru /paʁ.ku.ʁy/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	parcours /paʁ.kuʁ/	parcours /paʁ.kuʁ/	parcourt /paʁ.kuʁ/	parcourons /paʁ.ku.ʁɔ̃/	parcourez /paʁ.ku.ʁe/	parcourent /paʁ.kuʁ/
	imperfect	parcourais /paʁ.ku.ʁɛ/	parcourais /paʁ.ku.ʁɛ/	parcourait /paʁ.ku.ʁɛ/	parcourions /paʁ.ku.ʁjɔ̃/	parcouriez /paʁ.ku.ʁje/	parcouraient /paʁ.ku.ʁɛ/
	past historic2	parcourus /paʁ.ku.ʁy/	parcourus /paʁ.ku.ʁy/	parcourut /paʁ.ku.ʁy/	parcourûmes /paʁ.ku.ʁym/	parcourûtes /paʁ.ku.ʁyt/	parcoururent /paʁ.ku.ʁyʁ/
	future	parcourrai /paʁ.kuʁ.ʁe/	parcourras /paʁ.kuʁ.ʁa/	parcourra /paʁ.kuʁ.ʁa/	parcourrons /paʁ.kuʁ.ʁɔ̃/	parcourrez /paʁ.kuʁ.ʁe/	parcourront /paʁ.kuʁ.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	parcourrais /paʁ.kuʁ.ʁɛ/	parcourrais /paʁ.kuʁ.ʁɛ/	parcourrait /paʁ.kuʁ.ʁɛ/	parcourrions /paʁ.kuʁ.ʁjɔ̃/	parcourriez /paʁ.kuʁ.ʁje/	parcourraient /paʁ.kuʁ.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	parcoure /paʁ.kuʁ/	parcoures /paʁ.kuʁ/	parcoure /paʁ.kuʁ/	parcourions /paʁ.ku.ʁjɔ̃/	parcouriez /paʁ.ku.ʁje/	parcourent /paʁ.kuʁ/
	imperfect2	parcourusse /paʁ.ku.ʁys/	parcourusses /paʁ.ku.ʁys/	parcourût /paʁ.ku.ʁy/	parcourussions /paʁ.ku.ʁy.sjɔ̃/	parcourussiez /paʁ.ku.ʁy.sje/	parcourussent /paʁ.ku.ʁys/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	parcours /paʁ.kuʁ/	—	parcourons /paʁ.ku.ʁɔ̃/	parcourez /paʁ.ku.ʁe/	—
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).

Related terms

• courir

Further reading

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