séduire
See also: seduiré
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Altered or Gallicized from Latin seducere, based on other verbs such as conduire, réduire, etc.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]séduire
- to seduce
- 2014, Paradis, Garde-le pour toi:
- Tout ce qu’on a de commun, garde-le pour toi, et ce que tu seras demain encore me séduira.
- Everything we have in common, keep it to yourself, and what you will be tomorrow will still seduce me.
- to lure
Conjugation
[edit]Conjugation of séduire (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | séduire | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | séduisant /se.dɥi.zɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | séduit /se.dɥi/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | séduis /se.dɥi/ |
séduis /se.dɥi/ |
séduit /se.dɥi/ |
séduisons /se.dɥi.zɔ̃/ |
séduisez /se.dɥi.ze/ |
séduisent /se.dɥiz/ |
| imperfect | séduisais /se.dɥi.zɛ/ |
séduisais /se.dɥi.zɛ/ |
séduisait /se.dɥi.zɛ/ |
séduisions /se.dɥi.zjɔ̃/ |
séduisiez /se.dɥi.zje/ |
séduisaient /se.dɥi.zɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | séduisis /se.dɥi.zi/ |
séduisis /se.dɥi.zi/ |
séduisit /se.dɥi.zi/ |
séduisîmes /se.dɥi.zim/ |
séduisîtes /se.dɥi.zit/ |
séduisirent /se.dɥi.ziʁ/ | |
| future | séduirai /se.dɥi.ʁe/ |
séduiras /se.dɥi.ʁa/ |
séduira /se.dɥi.ʁa/ |
séduirons /se.dɥi.ʁɔ̃/ |
séduirez /se.dɥi.ʁe/ |
séduiront /se.dɥi.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | séduirais /se.dɥi.ʁɛ/ |
séduirais /se.dɥi.ʁɛ/ |
séduirait /se.dɥi.ʁɛ/ |
séduirions /se.dɥi.ʁjɔ̃/ |
séduiriez /se.dɥi.ʁje/ |
séduiraient /se.dɥi.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 | séduise /se.dɥiz/ |
séduises /se.dɥiz/ |
séduise /se.dɥiz/ |
séduisions /se.dɥi.zjɔ̃/ |
séduisiez /se.dɥi.zje/ |
séduisent /se.dɥiz/ |
| imperfect2 | séduisisse /se.dɥi.zis/ |
séduisisses /se.dɥi.zis/ |
séduisît /se.dɥi.zi/ |
séduisissions /se.dɥi.zi.sjɔ̃/ |
séduisissiez /se.dɥi.zi.sje/ |
séduisissent /se.dɥi.zis/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | séduis /se.dɥi/ |
— | séduisons /se.dɥi.zɔ̃/ |
séduisez /se.dɥi.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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “séduire”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.