suis
Meaning
first-person singular present indicative of être
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/sɥi/
Etymology
From Middle French suis, from Old French sui, from Latin sum. The expected Old French reflex of sum would be *son. The form sui goes back to Vulgar Latin *suiō or earlier *suī, which were probably influenced by the perfect tense fuī (“I was”, modern French fus). Compare the reverse development in Galician fun (“I was”), from Vulgar Latin *fum, influenced by the present form. Final -s was added in later Old French to the first-person singular forms by analogy with the second person; it was standardised in Modern French in most cases except after unstressed -e and in the ending -ai of the future and past historic.
être
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- to be
- Used to form the perfect and pluperfect tense of certain verbs (including all reflexive verbs)
- to be (Used to form the passive voice)
suivre
- to follow (literal sense)
- to follow; to get (figurative sense; to understand what someone is saying)
- to take (a course or a class)
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Sentences
Pour l’instant , je suis sur 🔛 le banc du prisonnier .
For now, I'm on the prisoner's bench.
