concourir

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin concurrere, based on French courir.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.ku.ʁiʁ/

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Verb

concourir

1. (intransitive) to compete, to contend
2. (followed by the preposition à) to contribute, to play a role in
3. (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		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
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: 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).

Related terms

• concours

Further reading

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