sourciller

French

Etymology

From sourcil +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /suʁ.si.je/

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Verb

sourciller

1. (intransitive) to frown

Conjugation

Conjugation of sourciller (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	sourciller
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	sourcillant /suʁ.si.jɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		sourcillé /suʁ.si.je/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	sourcille /suʁ.sij/	sourcilles /suʁ.sij/	sourcille /suʁ.sij/	sourcillons /suʁ.si.jɔ̃/	sourcillez /suʁ.si.je/	sourcillent /suʁ.sij/
	imperfect	sourcillais /suʁ.si.jɛ/	sourcillais /suʁ.si.jɛ/	sourcillait /suʁ.si.jɛ/	sourcillions /suʁ.sij.jɔ̃/	sourcilliez /suʁ.sij.je/	sourcillaient /suʁ.si.jɛ/
	past historic2	sourcillai /suʁ.si.je/	sourcillas /suʁ.si.ja/	sourcilla /suʁ.si.ja/	sourcillâmes /suʁ.si.jam/	sourcillâtes /suʁ.si.jat/	sourcillèrent /suʁ.si.jɛʁ/
	future	sourcillerai /suʁ.sij.ʁe/	sourcilleras /suʁ.sij.ʁa/	sourcillera /suʁ.sij.ʁa/	sourcillerons /suʁ.sij.ʁɔ̃/	sourcillerez /suʁ.sij.ʁe/	sourcilleront /suʁ.sij.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	sourcillerais /suʁ.sij.ʁɛ/	sourcillerais /suʁ.sij.ʁɛ/	sourcillerait /suʁ.sij.ʁɛ/	sourcillerions /suʁ.si.jə.ʁjɔ̃/	sourcilleriez /suʁ.si.jə.ʁje/	sourcilleraient /suʁ.sij.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	sourcille /suʁ.sij/	sourcilles /suʁ.sij/	sourcille /suʁ.sij/	sourcillions /suʁ.sij.jɔ̃/	sourcilliez /suʁ.sij.je/	sourcillent /suʁ.sij/
	imperfect2	sourcillasse /suʁ.si.jas/	sourcillasses /suʁ.si.jas/	sourcillât /suʁ.si.ja/	sourcillassions /suʁ.si.ja.sjɔ̃/	sourcillassiez /suʁ.si.ja.sje/	sourcillassent /suʁ.si.jas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	sourcille /suʁ.sij/	—	sourcillons /suʁ.si.jɔ̃/	sourcillez /suʁ.si.je/	—
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

• sourcilleux

Further reading

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