spécifier
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See also: specifier
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Loaned, not inherited, from Vulgar Latin *specificāre, from specificus (“specific, particular”), from Latin speciēs (“kind, quality, species”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file)
Verb
[edit]spécifier
- to specify
Conjugation
[edit]Conjugation of spécifier (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | spécifier | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | spécifiant /spe.si.fjɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | spécifié /spe.si.fje/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | spécifie /spe.si.fi/ |
spécifies /spe.si.fi/ |
spécifie /spe.si.fi/ |
spécifions /spe.si.fjɔ̃/ |
spécifiez /spe.si.fje/ |
spécifient /spe.si.fi/ |
| imperfect | spécifiais /spe.si.fjɛ/ |
spécifiais /spe.si.fjɛ/ |
spécifiait /spe.si.fjɛ/ |
spécifiions /spe.si.fi.jɔ̃/ |
spécifiiez /spe.si.fi.je/ |
spécifiaient /spe.si.fjɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | spécifiai /spe.si.fje/ |
spécifias /spe.si.fja/ |
spécifia /spe.si.fja/ |
spécifiâmes /spe.si.fjam/ |
spécifiâtes /spe.si.fjat/ |
spécifièrent /spe.si.fjɛʁ/ | |
| future | spécifierai /spe.si.fi.ʁe/ |
spécifieras /spe.si.fi.ʁa/ |
spécifiera /spe.si.fi.ʁa/ |
spécifierons /spe.si.fi.ʁɔ̃/ |
spécifierez /spe.si.fi.ʁe/ |
spécifieront /spe.si.fi.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | spécifierais /spe.si.fi.ʁɛ/ |
spécifierais /spe.si.fi.ʁɛ/ |
spécifierait /spe.si.fi.ʁɛ/ |
spécifierions /spe.si.fi.ʁjɔ̃/ |
spécifieriez /spe.si.fi.ʁje/ |
spécifieraient /spe.si.fi.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 | spécifie /spe.si.fi/ |
spécifies /spe.si.fi/ |
spécifie /spe.si.fi/ |
spécifiions /spe.si.fi.jɔ̃/ |
spécifiiez /spe.si.fi.je/ |
spécifient /spe.si.fi/ |
| imperfect2 | spécifiasse /spe.si.fjas/ |
spécifiasses /spe.si.fjas/ |
spécifiât /spe.si.fja/ |
spécifiassions /spe.si.fja.sjɔ̃/ |
spécifiassiez /spe.si.fja.sje/ |
spécifiassent /spe.si.fjas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | spécifie /spe.si.fi/ |
— | spécifions /spe.si.fjɔ̃/ |
spécifiez /spe.si.fje/ |
— | |
| 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]- “spécifier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.