concourir
French
    
    Etymology
    
Borrowed from Latin concurrere, based on French courir.
Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): /kɔ̃.ku.ʁiʁ/
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Verb
    
concourir
- (intransitive) to compete, to contend
- (followed by the preposition à) to contribute, to play a role in
- (mathematics) to converge
Conjugation
    
This verb is conjugated like other regular -ir verbs, except that in the conditional and future tenses an extra 'r' is added to the end of the stem and the past participle ends in -u. All verb ending in -courir are conjugated this way.
Conjugation of concourir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | concourir | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | concourant /kɔ̃.ku.ʁɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | concouru /kɔ̃.ku.ʁy/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | concours /kɔ̃.kuʁ/ | concours /kɔ̃.kuʁ/ | concourt /kɔ̃.kuʁ/ | concourons /kɔ̃.ku.ʁɔ̃/ | concourez /kɔ̃.ku.ʁe/ | concourent /kɔ̃.kuʁ/ | 
| imperfect | concourais /kɔ̃.ku.ʁɛ/ | concourais /kɔ̃.ku.ʁɛ/ | concourait /kɔ̃.ku.ʁɛ/ | concourions /kɔ̃.ku.ʁjɔ̃/ | concouriez /kɔ̃.ku.ʁje/ | concouraient /kɔ̃.ku.ʁɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | concourus /kɔ̃.ku.ʁy/ | concourus /kɔ̃.ku.ʁy/ | concourut /kɔ̃.ku.ʁy/ | concourûmes /kɔ̃.ku.ʁym/ | concourûtes /kɔ̃.ku.ʁyt/ | concoururent /kɔ̃.ku.ʁyʁ/ | |
| future | concourrai /kɔ̃.kuʁ.ʁe/ | concourras /kɔ̃.kuʁ.ʁa/ | concourra /kɔ̃.kuʁ.ʁa/ | concourrons /kɔ̃.kuʁ.ʁɔ̃/ | concourrez /kɔ̃.kuʁ.ʁe/ | concourront /kɔ̃.kuʁ.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | concourrais /kɔ̃.kuʁ.ʁɛ/ | concourrais /kɔ̃.kuʁ.ʁɛ/ | concourrait /kɔ̃.kuʁ.ʁɛ/ | concourrions /kɔ̃.kuʁ.ʁjɔ̃/ | concourriez /kɔ̃.kuʁ.ʁje/ | concourraient /kɔ̃.kuʁ.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 | concoure /kɔ̃.kuʁ/ | concoures /kɔ̃.kuʁ/ | concoure /kɔ̃.kuʁ/ | concourions /kɔ̃.ku.ʁjɔ̃/ | concouriez /kɔ̃.ku.ʁje/ | concourent /kɔ̃.kuʁ/ | 
| imperfect2 | concourusse /kɔ̃.ku.ʁys/ | concourusses /kɔ̃.ku.ʁys/ | concourût /kɔ̃.ku.ʁy/ | concourussions /kɔ̃.ku.ʁy.sjɔ̃/ | concourussiez /kɔ̃.ku.ʁy.sje/ | concourussent /kɔ̃.ku.ʁys/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | concours /kɔ̃.kuʁ/ | — | concourons /kɔ̃.ku.ʁɔ̃/ | concourez /kɔ̃.ku.ʁe/ | — | |
| 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). | |||||||
Related terms
    
Further reading
    
- “concourir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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