remercier
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
Verb
remercier
Usage notes
Remercier can be used with de or pour. De is more common when the complement is an infinitive (Je te remercie d'avoir pensé à moi); both are used when the complement is a noun (Je te remercie pour/de ce beau cadeau). De with a noun is sometimes considered more formal, but both are standard.
Conjugation
Conjugation of remercier (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | remercier | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | remerciant /ʁə.mɛʁ.sjɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | remercié /ʁə.mɛʁ.sje/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | remercie /ʁə.mɛʁ.si/ |
remercies /ʁə.mɛʁ.si/ |
remercie /ʁə.mɛʁ.si/ |
remercions /ʁə.mɛʁ.sjɔ̃/ |
remerciez /ʁə.mɛʁ.sje/ |
remercient /ʁə.mɛʁ.si/ |
| imperfect | remerciais /ʁə.mɛʁ.sjɛ/ |
remerciais /ʁə.mɛʁ.sjɛ/ |
remerciait /ʁə.mɛʁ.sjɛ/ |
remerciions /ʁə.mɛʁ.si.jɔ̃/ |
remerciiez /ʁə.mɛʁ.si.je/ |
remerciaient /ʁə.mɛʁ.sjɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | remerciai /ʁə.mɛʁ.sje/ |
remercias /ʁə.mɛʁ.sja/ |
remercia /ʁə.mɛʁ.sja/ |
remerciâmes /ʁə.mɛʁ.sjam/ |
remerciâtes /ʁə.mɛʁ.sjat/ |
remercièrent /ʁə.mɛʁ.sjɛʁ/ | |
| future | remercierai /ʁə.mɛʁ.si.ʁe/ |
remercieras /ʁə.mɛʁ.si.ʁa/ |
remerciera /ʁə.mɛʁ.si.ʁa/ |
remercierons /ʁə.mɛʁ.si.ʁɔ̃/ |
remercierez /ʁə.mɛʁ.si.ʁe/ |
remercieront /ʁə.mɛʁ.si.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | remercierais /ʁə.mɛʁ.si.ʁɛ/ |
remercierais /ʁə.mɛʁ.si.ʁɛ/ |
remercierait /ʁə.mɛʁ.si.ʁɛ/ |
remercierions /ʁə.mɛʁ.si.ʁjɔ̃/ |
remercieriez /ʁə.mɛʁ.si.ʁje/ |
remercieraient /ʁə.mɛʁ.si.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 | remercie /ʁə.mɛʁ.si/ |
remercies /ʁə.mɛʁ.si/ |
remercie /ʁə.mɛʁ.si/ |
remerciions /ʁə.mɛʁ.si.jɔ̃/ |
remerciiez /ʁə.mɛʁ.si.je/ |
remercient /ʁə.mɛʁ.si/ |
| imperfect2 | remerciasse /ʁə.mɛʁ.sjas/ |
remerciasses /ʁə.mɛʁ.sjas/ |
remerciât /ʁə.mɛʁ.sja/ |
remerciassions /ʁə.mɛʁ.sja.sjɔ̃/ |
remerciassiez /ʁə.mɛʁ.sja.sje/ |
remerciassent /ʁə.mɛʁ.sjas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | remercie /ʁə.mɛʁ.si/ |
— | remercions /ʁə.mɛʁ.sjɔ̃/ |
remerciez /ʁə.mɛʁ.sje/ |
— | |
| 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). | |||||||
Derived terms
Further reading
- “remercier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012