prévoir
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See also: prevoir
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Middle French prevoir, from Old French preveoir, borrowed from Latin praevidere.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]prévoir
- to anticipate, foresee, expect (reaction, event, etc.)
- to forecast (weather)
- to plan
- to allow, make plans for, prepare, make provision for
- (law) to provide for, make provision for
Conjugation
[edit]Conjugation of prévoir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | prévoir | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | prévoyant /pʁe.vwa.jɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | prévu /pʁe.vy/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | prévois /pʁe.vwa/ |
prévois /pʁe.vwa/ |
prévoit /pʁe.vwa/ |
prévoyons /pʁe.vwa.jɔ̃/ |
prévoyez /pʁe.vwa.je/ |
prévoient /pʁe.vwa/ |
imperfect | prévoyais /pʁe.vwa.jɛ/ |
prévoyais /pʁe.vwa.jɛ/ |
prévoyait /pʁe.vwa.jɛ/ |
prévoyions /pʁe.vwaj.jɔ̃/ |
prévoyiez /pʁe.vwaj.je/ |
prévoyaient /pʁe.vwa.jɛ/ | |
past historic2 | prévis /pʁe.vi/ |
prévis /pʁe.vi/ |
prévit /pʁe.vi/ |
prévîmes /pʁe.vim/ |
prévîtes /pʁe.vit/ |
prévirent /pʁe.viʁ/ | |
future | prévoirai /pʁe.vwa.ʁe/ |
prévoiras /pʁe.vwa.ʁa/ |
prévoira /pʁe.vwa.ʁa/ |
prévoirons /pʁe.vwa.ʁɔ̃/ |
prévoirez /pʁe.vwa.ʁe/ |
prévoiront /pʁe.vwa.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | prévoirais /pʁe.vwa.ʁɛ/ |
prévoirais /pʁe.vwa.ʁɛ/ |
prévoirait /pʁe.vwa.ʁɛ/ |
prévoirions /pʁe.vwa.ʁjɔ̃/ |
prévoiriez /pʁe.vwa.ʁje/ |
prévoiraient /pʁe.vwa.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 | prévoie /pʁe.vwa/ |
prévoies /pʁe.vwa/ |
prévoie /pʁe.vwa/ |
prévoyions /pʁe.vwaj.jɔ̃/ |
prévoyiez /pʁe.vwaj.je/ |
prévoient /pʁe.vwa/ |
imperfect2 | prévisse /pʁe.vis/ |
prévisses /pʁe.vis/ |
prévît /pʁe.vi/ |
prévissions /pʁe.vi.sjɔ̃/ |
prévissiez /pʁe.vi.sje/ |
prévissent /pʁe.vis/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | prévois /pʁe.vwa/ |
— | prévoyons /pʁe.vwa.jɔ̃/ |
prévoyez /pʁe.vwa.je/ |
— | |
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). |
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “prévoir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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