jouir

See also: jouïr

French

Etymology

From Middle French jouir, jouïr, iouyr, from Old French joïr, from Vulgar Latin *gaudīre (*gaudiō), from Latin gaudēre, present active infinitive of gaudeō. , which was a borrowing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʒwiʁ/
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Verb

jouir

1. (followed by the preposition de) to enjoy

   Il jouissait d’une santé à toute épreuve. ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   Synonym: bénéficier

2. (intransitive) to have an orgasm

   Elle m’a laissé jouir dans sa bouche. ― She let me cum in her mouth.

Conjugation

This is a regular verb of the second conjugation, like finir, choisir, and most other verbs with infinitives ending in -ir. One salient feature of this conjugation is the repeated appearance of the infix -iss-.

Conjugation of jouir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	jouir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	jouissant /ʒwi.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		joui /ʒwi/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	jouis /ʒwi/	jouis /ʒwi/	jouit /ʒwi/	jouissons /ʒwi.sɔ̃/	jouissez /ʒwi.se/	jouissent /ʒwis/
	imperfect	jouissais /ʒwi.sɛ/	jouissais /ʒwi.sɛ/	jouissait /ʒwi.sɛ/	jouissions /ʒwi.sjɔ̃/	jouissiez /ʒwi.sje/	jouissaient /ʒwi.sɛ/
	past historic2	jouis /ʒwi/	jouis /ʒwi/	jouit /ʒwi/	jouîmes /ʒwim/	jouîtes /ʒwit/	jouirent /ʒwiʁ/
	future	jouirai /ʒwi.ʁe/	jouiras /ʒwi.ʁa/	jouira /ʒwi.ʁa/	jouirons /ʒwi.ʁɔ̃/	jouirez /ʒwi.ʁe/	jouiront /ʒwi.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	jouirais /ʒwi.ʁɛ/	jouirais /ʒwi.ʁɛ/	jouirait /ʒwi.ʁɛ/	jouirions /ʒwi.ʁjɔ̃/	jouiriez /ʒwi.ʁje/	jouiraient /ʒwi.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	jouisse /ʒwis/	jouisses /ʒwis/	jouisse /ʒwis/	jouissions /ʒwi.sjɔ̃/	jouissiez /ʒwi.sje/	jouissent /ʒwis/
	imperfect2	jouisse /ʒwis/	jouisses /ʒwis/	jouît /ʒwi/	jouissions /ʒwi.sjɔ̃/	jouissiez /ʒwi.sje/	jouissent /ʒwis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	jouis /ʒwi/	—	jouissons /ʒwi.sɔ̃/	jouissez /ʒwi.se/	—
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: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Derived terms

• jouissance
• jouisseur

Related terms

• joie

Further reading

• “jouir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Middle French

Verb

jouir

1. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Alternative form of iouyr