sertir

French

Etymology

From Old French sartir.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɛʁ.tiʁ/

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Verb

sertir

1. (transitive) to crimp
2. (transitive, of jewellery) to set, socket

Conjugation

This is a regular verb of the second conjugation, like finir, choisir, and most other verbs with infinitives ending in -ir. One salient feature of this conjugation is the repeated appearance of the infix -iss-.

Conjugation of sertir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	sertir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	sertissant /sɛʁ.ti.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		serti /sɛʁ.ti/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	sertis /sɛʁ.ti/	sertis /sɛʁ.ti/	sertit /sɛʁ.ti/	sertissons /sɛʁ.ti.sɔ̃/	sertissez /sɛʁ.ti.se/	sertissent /sɛʁ.tis/
	imperfect	sertissais /sɛʁ.ti.sɛ/	sertissais /sɛʁ.ti.sɛ/	sertissait /sɛʁ.ti.sɛ/	sertissions /sɛʁ.ti.sjɔ̃/	sertissiez /sɛʁ.ti.sje/	sertissaient /sɛʁ.ti.sɛ/
	past historic2	sertis /sɛʁ.ti/	sertis /sɛʁ.ti/	sertit /sɛʁ.ti/	sertîmes /sɛʁ.tim/	sertîtes /sɛʁ.tit/	sertirent /sɛʁ.tiʁ/
	future	sertirai /sɛʁ.ti.ʁe/	sertiras /sɛʁ.ti.ʁa/	sertira /sɛʁ.ti.ʁa/	sertirons /sɛʁ.ti.ʁɔ̃/	sertirez /sɛʁ.ti.ʁe/	sertiront /sɛʁ.ti.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	sertirais /sɛʁ.ti.ʁɛ/	sertirais /sɛʁ.ti.ʁɛ/	sertirait /sɛʁ.ti.ʁɛ/	sertirions /sɛʁ.ti.ʁjɔ̃/	sertiriez /sɛʁ.ti.ʁje/	sertiraient /sɛʁ.ti.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	sertisse /sɛʁ.tis/	sertisses /sɛʁ.tis/	sertisse /sɛʁ.tis/	sertissions /sɛʁ.ti.sjɔ̃/	sertissiez /sɛʁ.ti.sje/	sertissent /sɛʁ.tis/
	imperfect2	sertisse /sɛʁ.tis/	sertisses /sɛʁ.tis/	sertît /sɛʁ.ti/	sertissions /sɛʁ.ti.sjɔ̃/	sertissiez /sɛʁ.ti.sje/	sertissent /sɛʁ.tis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	sertis /sɛʁ.ti/	—	sertissons /sɛʁ.ti.sɔ̃/	sertissez /sɛʁ.ti.se/	—
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

• sertissage
• sertissure
• dessertir

Further reading

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