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fournir: Conjugation

The fournir conjugation tables below show how to form the French verb fournir according to tense and person. To listen to the pronunciation of a given tense of fournir, click on the loudspeaker icon at the bottom of the table. See the notes on the conjugation of fournir at the end of this page.

Present	Perfect
je fournis tu fournis il/elle fournit nous fournissons vous fournissez ils/elles fournissent Pronounce these verb forms	j' ai fourni tu as fourni il/elle a fourni nous avons fourni vous avez fourni ils/elles ont fourni Pronounce these verb forms
Imperfect	Pluperfect
je fournissais tu fournissais il/elle fournissait nous fournissions vous fournissiez ils/elles fournissaient Pronounce these verb forms	j' avais fourni tu avais fourni il/elle avait fourni nous avions fourni vous aviez fourni ils/elles avaient fourni Pronounce these verb forms
Future	Future-perfect
je fournirai tu fourniras il/elle fournira nous fournirons vous fournirez ils/elles fourniront Pronounce these verb forms	j' aurai fourni tu auras fourni il/elle aura fourni nous aurons fourni vous aurez fourni ils/elles auront fourni Pronounce these verb forms
Conditional	Conditional perfect
je fournirais tu fournirais il/elle fournirait nous fournirions vous fourniriez ils/elles fourniraient Pronounce these verb forms	j' aurais fourni tu aurais fourni il/elle aurait fourni nous aurions fourni vous auriez fourni ils/elles auraient fourni Pronounce these verb forms
Present subjunctive	Perfect subjunctive
je fournisse tu fournisses il/elle fournisse nous fournissions vous fournissiez ils/elles fournissent Pronounce these verb forms	j' aie fourni tu aies fourni il/elle ait fourni nous ayons fourni vous ayez fourni ils/elles aient fourni Pronounce these verb forms
Past historic	Past anterior
je fournis tu fournis il/elle fournit nous fournîmes vous fournîtes ils/elles fournirent Pronounce these verb forms	j' eus fourni tu eus fourni il/elle eut fourni nous eûmes fourni vous eûtes fourni ils/elles eurent fourni Pronounce these verb forms

This verb falls into the pattern commonly termed regular -ir verb. It is characterised by the consonant -ss- which appears before any ending beginning with a vowel (in the spelling) but not in the infinitive or past participle.

This is the pattern generally followed by verbs based on colours and some other common adjectives (such as (to turn red, blush), jaunir (to turn yellow), grandir (to grow), adoucir (to soften) etc. Many English verbs ending in -ish also have French counterparts ending in -ir and following this pattern (cf finir, polir, vernir (to varnish), abolir, ternir...

Around 300 verbs are reported to follow this pattern (Beescherelle (2006), la conjugaison pour tous). The category is marginally productive:

• On analogy with other verbs of the category, very occasional -ir neologisms are formed (cf amarsir);
• There is a very slight tendancy for irregular -ir verbs to "slip into" the regular -ir pattern. In educated usage, this happens in some senses for saillir and ressortir in some senses, and sometimes for the verb vêtir (Bescherelle, op cit, p. 27). Other non-standard forms occasionally found include vous bouillissez (instead of vous bouillez: see bouillir).