tonsurer

French

Etymology

From tonsure +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɔ̃.sy.ʁe/

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Verb

tonsurer

1. to tonsure

Conjugation

Conjugation of tonsurer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	tonsurer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	tonsurant /tɔ̃.sy.ʁɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		tonsuré /tɔ̃.sy.ʁe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	tonsure /tɔ̃.syʁ/	tonsures /tɔ̃.syʁ/	tonsure /tɔ̃.syʁ/	tonsurons /tɔ̃.sy.ʁɔ̃/	tonsurez /tɔ̃.sy.ʁe/	tonsurent /tɔ̃.syʁ/
	imperfect	tonsurais /tɔ̃.sy.ʁɛ/	tonsurais /tɔ̃.sy.ʁɛ/	tonsurait /tɔ̃.sy.ʁɛ/	tonsurions /tɔ̃.sy.ʁjɔ̃/	tonsuriez /tɔ̃.sy.ʁje/	tonsuraient /tɔ̃.sy.ʁɛ/
	past historic2	tonsurai /tɔ̃.sy.ʁe/	tonsuras /tɔ̃.sy.ʁa/	tonsura /tɔ̃.sy.ʁa/	tonsurâmes /tɔ̃.sy.ʁam/	tonsurâtes /tɔ̃.sy.ʁat/	tonsurèrent /tɔ̃.sy.ʁɛʁ/
	future	tonsurerai /tɔ̃.sy.ʁə.ʁe/	tonsureras /tɔ̃.sy.ʁə.ʁa/	tonsurera /tɔ̃.sy.ʁə.ʁa/	tonsurerons /tɔ̃.sy.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/	tonsurerez /tɔ̃.sy.ʁə.ʁe/	tonsureront /tɔ̃.sy.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	tonsurerais /tɔ̃.sy.ʁə.ʁɛ/	tonsurerais /tɔ̃.sy.ʁə.ʁɛ/	tonsurerait /tɔ̃.sy.ʁə.ʁɛ/	tonsurerions /tɔ̃.sy.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/	tonsureriez /tɔ̃.sy.ʁə.ʁje/	tonsureraient /tɔ̃.sy.ʁə.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	tonsure /tɔ̃.syʁ/	tonsures /tɔ̃.syʁ/	tonsure /tɔ̃.syʁ/	tonsurions /tɔ̃.sy.ʁjɔ̃/	tonsuriez /tɔ̃.sy.ʁje/	tonsurent /tɔ̃.syʁ/
	imperfect2	tonsurasse /tɔ̃.sy.ʁas/	tonsurasses /tɔ̃.sy.ʁas/	tonsurât /tɔ̃.sy.ʁa/	tonsurassions /tɔ̃.sy.ʁa.sjɔ̃/	tonsurassiez /tɔ̃.sy.ʁa.sje/	tonsurassent /tɔ̃.sy.ʁas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	tonsure /tɔ̃.syʁ/	—	tonsurons /tɔ̃.sy.ʁɔ̃/	tonsurez /tɔ̃.sy.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).

Further reading

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