obéir
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French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Middle French obeir, from Old French obeir, borrowed from Latin oboedīre.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]obéir
- (intransitive) to obey (+ à a person)
- obéir à son patron.
- To obey one's boss.
- (intransitive) to obey, to follow (+ à a rule or instruction)
- Obéir aux instructions.
- To obey the instructions.
Conjugation
[edit]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 obéir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | obéir | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | obéissant /ɔ.be.i.sɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | obéi /ɔ.be.i/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | obéis /ɔ.be.i/ |
obéis /ɔ.be.i/ |
obéit /ɔ.be.i/ |
obéissons /ɔ.be.i.sɔ̃/ |
obéissez /ɔ.be.i.se/ |
obéissent /ɔ.be.is/ |
imperfect | obéissais /ɔ.be.i.sɛ/ |
obéissais /ɔ.be.i.sɛ/ |
obéissait /ɔ.be.i.sɛ/ |
obéissions /ɔ.be.i.sjɔ̃/ |
obéissiez /ɔ.be.i.sje/ |
obéissaient /ɔ.be.i.sɛ/ | |
past historic2 | obéis /ɔ.be.i/ |
obéis /ɔ.be.i/ |
obéit /ɔ.be.i/ |
obéîmes /ɔ.be.im/ |
obéîtes /ɔ.be.it/ |
obéirent /ɔ.be.iʁ/ | |
future | obéirai /ɔ.be.i.ʁe/ |
obéiras /ɔ.be.i.ʁa/ |
obéira /ɔ.be.i.ʁa/ |
obéirons /ɔ.be.i.ʁɔ̃/ |
obéirez /ɔ.be.i.ʁe/ |
obéiront /ɔ.be.i.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | obéirais /ɔ.be.i.ʁɛ/ |
obéirais /ɔ.be.i.ʁɛ/ |
obéirait /ɔ.be.i.ʁɛ/ |
obéirions /ɔ.be.i.ʁjɔ̃/ |
obéiriez /ɔ.be.i.ʁje/ |
obéiraient /ɔ.be.i.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 | obéisse /ɔ.be.is/ |
obéisses /ɔ.be.is/ |
obéisse /ɔ.be.is/ |
obéissions /ɔ.be.i.sjɔ̃/ |
obéissiez /ɔ.be.i.sje/ |
obéissent /ɔ.be.is/ |
imperfect2 | obéisse /ɔ.be.is/ |
obéisses /ɔ.be.is/ |
obéît /ɔ.be.i/ |
obéissions /ɔ.be.i.sjɔ̃/ |
obéissiez /ɔ.be.i.sje/ |
obéissent /ɔ.be.is/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | obéis /ɔ.be.i/ |
— | obéissons /ɔ.be.i.sɔ̃/ |
obéissez /ɔ.be.i.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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). |
Antonyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “obéir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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