confier

French

Etymology

Semi-learned borrowing from Latin cōnfīdō, based on the existing French fier.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.fje/

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Verb

confier

1. to confide

   Il confie son secret à son ami.

   He confides his secret to his friend.

2. to entrust

   Il lui confie cette tâche.

   He entrusts that task to him/her.

   confier à quelqu'un le soin de faire quelque chose ― to entrust somebody with the task of doing something

Conjugation

Conjugation of confier (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	confier
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	confiant /kɔ̃.fjɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		confié /kɔ̃.fje/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	confie /kɔ̃.fi/	confies /kɔ̃.fi/	confie /kɔ̃.fi/	confions /kɔ̃.fjɔ̃/	confiez /kɔ̃.fje/	confient /kɔ̃.fi/
	imperfect	confiais /kɔ̃.fjɛ/	confiais /kɔ̃.fjɛ/	confiait /kɔ̃.fjɛ/	confiions /kɔ̃.fi.jɔ̃/	confiiez /kɔ̃.fi.je/	confiaient /kɔ̃.fjɛ/
	past historic2	confiai /kɔ̃.fje/	confias /kɔ̃.fja/	confia /kɔ̃.fja/	confiâmes /kɔ̃.fjam/	confiâtes /kɔ̃.fjat/	confièrent /kɔ̃.fjɛʁ/
	future	confierai /kɔ̃.fi.ʁe/	confieras /kɔ̃.fi.ʁa/	confiera /kɔ̃.fi.ʁa/	confierons /kɔ̃.fi.ʁɔ̃/	confierez /kɔ̃.fi.ʁe/	confieront /kɔ̃.fi.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	confierais /kɔ̃.fi.ʁɛ/	confierais /kɔ̃.fi.ʁɛ/	confierait /kɔ̃.fi.ʁɛ/	confierions /kɔ̃.fi.ʁjɔ̃/	confieriez /kɔ̃.fi.ʁje/	confieraient /kɔ̃.fi.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	confie /kɔ̃.fi/	confies /kɔ̃.fi/	confie /kɔ̃.fi/	confiions /kɔ̃.fi.jɔ̃/	confiiez /kɔ̃.fi.je/	confient /kɔ̃.fi/
	imperfect2	confiasse /kɔ̃.fjas/	confiasses /kɔ̃.fjas/	confiât /kɔ̃.fja/	confiassions /kɔ̃.fja.sjɔ̃/	confiassiez /kɔ̃.fja.sje/	confiassent /kɔ̃.fjas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	confie /kɔ̃.fi/	—	confions /kɔ̃.fjɔ̃/	confiez /kɔ̃.fje/	—
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

• confiance
• confiant

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• confire
• foncier