inscrire

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin īnscribere, with conjugation partially based on écrire (cf. Middle French escrire).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃s.kʁiʁ/

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Verb

inscrire

1. (transitive) to inscribe (engrave)
2. (transitive) to inscribe; jot down (make notes on paper)
3. (mathematics, transitive) to inscribe
4. (transitive) to inscribe, sign up (to a publication, annual pass etc.)
5. (reflexive) to sign up (for)

   Je m’y suis inscrite

   I've signed up for it

6. (sports) notch up, chalk up

   il a inscrit deux buts ― he chalked up two goals.

Conjugation

Conjugation of inscrire (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	inscrire
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	inscrivant /ɛ̃s.kʁi.vɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		inscrit /ɛ̃s.kʁi/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	inscris /ɛ̃s.kʁi/	inscris /ɛ̃s.kʁi/	inscrit /ɛ̃s.kʁi/	inscrivons /ɛ̃s.kʁi.vɔ̃/	inscrivez /ɛ̃s.kʁi.ve/	inscrivent /ɛ̃s.kʁiv/
	imperfect	inscrivais /ɛ̃s.kʁi.vɛ/	inscrivais /ɛ̃s.kʁi.vɛ/	inscrivait /ɛ̃s.kʁi.vɛ/	inscrivions /ɛ̃s.kʁi.vjɔ̃/	inscriviez /ɛ̃s.kʁi.vje/	inscrivaient /ɛ̃s.kʁi.vɛ/
	past historic2	inscrivis /ɛ̃s.kʁi.vi/	inscrivis /ɛ̃s.kʁi.vi/	inscrivit /ɛ̃s.kʁi.vi/	inscrivîmes /ɛ̃s.kʁi.vim/	inscrivîtes /ɛ̃s.kʁi.vit/	inscrivirent /ɛ̃s.kʁi.viʁ/
	future	inscrirai /ɛ̃s.kʁi.ʁe/	inscriras /ɛ̃s.kʁi.ʁa/	inscrira /ɛ̃s.kʁi.ʁa/	inscrirons /ɛ̃s.kʁi.ʁɔ̃/	inscrirez /ɛ̃s.kʁi.ʁe/	inscriront /ɛ̃s.kʁi.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	inscrirais /ɛ̃s.kʁi.ʁɛ/	inscrirais /ɛ̃s.kʁi.ʁɛ/	inscrirait /ɛ̃s.kʁi.ʁɛ/	inscririons /ɛ̃s.kʁi.ʁjɔ̃/	inscririez /ɛ̃s.kʁi.ʁje/	inscriraient /ɛ̃s.kʁi.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	inscrive /ɛ̃s.kʁiv/	inscrives /ɛ̃s.kʁiv/	inscrive /ɛ̃s.kʁiv/	inscrivions /ɛ̃s.kʁi.vjɔ̃/	inscriviez /ɛ̃s.kʁi.vje/	inscrivent /ɛ̃s.kʁiv/
	imperfect2	inscrivisse /ɛ̃s.kʁi.vis/	inscrivisses /ɛ̃s.kʁi.vis/	inscrivît /ɛ̃s.kʁi.vi/	inscrivissions /ɛ̃s.kʁi.vi.sjɔ̃/	inscrivissiez /ɛ̃s.kʁi.vi.sje/	inscrivissent /ɛ̃s.kʁi.vis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	inscris /ɛ̃s.kʁi/	—	inscrivons /ɛ̃s.kʁi.vɔ̃/	inscrivez /ɛ̃s.kʁi.ve/	—
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

• barre inscrite
• s’inscrire en faux

Related terms

• inscription

Further reading

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