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French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old French concevoir, from Vulgar Latin *concipēre, from Latin concipere.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]concevoir
- to conceive:
- to conceive (an idea)
- 1868, Jean Déhès, Essai sur l’amélioration des races chevalines de la France, École impériale vétérinaire de Toulouse:
- Ne regardons donc plus comme des principes absolus des faits n’ayant jamais existé que dans l’imagination de ceux qui les ont conçus […]
- Let us therefore no longer consider as absolute principles facts which have never existed, save in the imagination of those who conceived them […]
- 2006, Tom Wolfe, Moi, Charlotte Simmons, Robert Laffont:
- Il a essayé de concevoir combien des six mille deux cents étudiants de Dupont étaient à ce moment en train de forniquer. Concevoir, au sens d’être doué d’un regard qui traverserait les murs pour découvrir toutes ces bêtes à deux dos occupées à se tortiller et à ruer et à y aller.
- He tried to conceive of how many of the six thousand and two hundred students at Dupont were in the process of fornicating this very moment. Conceive, in the sense of being gifted with a sight that would go through the walls to discover all those beasts with two backs busy wriggling and bucking and going at it.
- to conceive, to conceive of; to understand, to comprehend
- 1894, Anatole France, Le Lys rouge:
- Ma chère amie, je ne vous conçois pas. Vous êtes d’une inconséquence qui peut vous faire le plus grand tort.
- My dear friend, I don't understand you. You are being thoughtless in a way that might do you the greatest harm.
- (dated) to conceive (a baby)
- to conceive (an idea)
- to design
- concevoir les plans d’un immeuble ― to design the plans for a building
Conjugation
[edit]Conjugation of concevoir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | concevoir | |||||
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compound | avoir past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | concevant /kɔ̃s.vɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant past participle | ||||||
past participle | conçu /kɔ̃.sy/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | conçois /kɔ̃.swa/ |
conçois /kɔ̃.swa/ |
conçoit /kɔ̃.swa/ |
concevons /kɔ̃s.vɔ̃/ |
concevez /kɔ̃s.ve/ |
conçoivent /kɔ̃.swav/ |
imperfect | concevais /kɔ̃s.vɛ/ |
concevais /kɔ̃s.vɛ/ |
concevait /kɔ̃s.vɛ/ |
concevions /kɔ̃.sə.vjɔ̃/ |
conceviez /kɔ̃.sə.vje/ |
concevaient /kɔ̃s.vɛ/ | |
past historic2 | conçus /kɔ̃.sy/ |
conçus /kɔ̃.sy/ |
conçut /kɔ̃.sy/ |
conçûmes /kɔ̃.sym/ |
conçûtes /kɔ̃.syt/ |
conçurent /kɔ̃.syʁ/ | |
future | concevrai /kɔ̃.sə.vʁe/ |
concevras /kɔ̃.sə.vʁa/ |
concevra /kɔ̃.sə.vʁa/ |
concevrons /kɔ̃.sə.vʁɔ̃/ |
concevrez /kɔ̃.sə.vʁe/ |
concevront /kɔ̃.sə.vʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | concevrais /kɔ̃.sə.vʁɛ/ |
concevrais /kɔ̃.sə.vʁɛ/ |
concevrait /kɔ̃.sə.vʁɛ/ |
concevrions /kɔ̃.sə.vʁi.jɔ̃/ |
concevriez /kɔ̃.sə.vʁi.je/ |
concevraient /kɔ̃.sə.vʁɛ/ | |
(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 | conçoive /kɔ̃.swav/ |
conçoives /kɔ̃.swav/ |
conçoive /kɔ̃.swav/ |
concevions /kɔ̃.sə.vjɔ̃/ |
conceviez /kɔ̃.sə.vje/ |
conçoivent /kɔ̃.swav/ |
imperfect2 | conçusse /kɔ̃.sys/ |
conçusses /kɔ̃.sys/ |
conçût /kɔ̃.sy/ |
conçussions /kɔ̃.sy.sjɔ̃/ |
conçussiez /kɔ̃.sy.sje/ |
conçussent /kɔ̃.sys/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | conçois /kɔ̃.swa/ |
— | concevons /kɔ̃s.vɔ̃/ |
concevez /kɔ̃s.ve/ |
— | |
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). |
Further reading
[edit]- “concevoir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Old French
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Vulgar Latin *concipēre, variant form of Classical Latin concipere, present active infinitive of concipiō.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]concevoir
Conjugation
[edit]This verb conjugates as a third-group verb. This verb has a stressed present stem conçoiv distinct from the unstressed stem concev, as well as other irregularities. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.
Conjugation of concevoir (see also Appendix:Old French verbs)
simple | compound | ||||||
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infinitive | concevoir | avoir conceü | |||||
gerund | en concevant | gerund of avoir past participle | |||||
present participle | concevant | ||||||
past participle | conceü | ||||||
person | singular | plural | |||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | jo | tu | il | nos | vos | il | |
simple tenses |
present | conçoif, conçoi | conçois | conçoit | concevons | concevez | conçoivent |
imperfect | concevoie, conceveie | concevoies, conceveies | concevoit, conceveit | conceviiens, conceviens | conceviiez, conceviez | concevoient, conceveient | |
preterite | conçui | conceüs | conçut | conceümes | conceüstes | conçurent | |
future | concevrai | concevras | concevra | concevrons | concevroiz, concevreiz, concevrez | concevront | |
conditional | concevroie, concevreie | concevroies, concevreies | concevroit, concevreit | concevriiens, concevriens | concevriiez, concevriez | concevroient, concevreient | |
compound tenses |
present perfect | present tense of avoir past participle | |||||
pluperfect | imperfect tense of avoir past participle | ||||||
past anterior | preterite tense of avoir past participle | ||||||
future perfect | future tense of avoir past participle | ||||||
conditional perfect | conditional tense of avoir past participle | ||||||
subjunctive | que jo | que tu | qu’il | que nos | que vos | qu’il | |
simple tenses |
present | conçoive | conçoives | conçoive | concevons | concevez | conçoivent |
imperfect | conceüsse | conceüsses | conceüst | conceüssons, conceüssiens | conceüssoiz, conceüssez, conceüssiez | conceüssent | |
compound tenses |
past | present subjunctive of avoir past participle | |||||
pluperfect | imperfect subjunctive of avoir past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | tu | – | nos | vos | – | |
— | conçoif | — | concevons | concevez | — |
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (concevoir, supplement)
- conceivre on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
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