situer

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin situāre, from situō (“to place, locate”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /si.tɥe/
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Verb

situer

  1. to locate (to find the location of something)
  2. to situate
  3. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to be located (at a certain place); To be (for a place)
    Le restaurant se situe à 200m de l’hôtel.
    The restaurant is located 200m from the hotel.

Conjugation
Conjugation of situer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive simple situer
compound avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1 simple situant
/si.tɥɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
past participle situé
/si.tɥe/
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle, on nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses)		 present situe
/si.ty/		 situes
/si.ty/		 situe
/si.ty/		 situons
/si.tɥɔ̃/		 situez
/si.tɥe/		 situent
/si.ty/
imperfect situais
/si.tɥɛ/		 situais
/si.tɥɛ/		 situait
/si.tɥɛ/		 situions
/si.ty.jɔ̃/		 situiez
/si.ty.je/		 situaient
/si.tɥɛ/
past historic2 situai
/si.tɥe/		 situas
/si.tɥa/		 situa
/si.tɥa/		 situâmes
/si.tɥam/		 situâtes
/si.tɥat/		 situèrent
/si.tɥɛʁ/
future situerai
/si.ty.ʁe/		 situeras
/si.ty.ʁa/		 situera
/si.ty.ʁa/		 situerons
/si.ty.ʁɔ̃/		 situerez
/si.ty.ʁe/		 situeront
/si.ty.ʁɔ̃/
conditional situerais
/si.ty.ʁɛ/		 situerais
/si.ty.ʁɛ/		 situerait
/si.ty.ʁɛ/		 situerions
/si.ty.ʁjɔ̃/		 situeriez
/si.ty.ʁje/		 situeraient
/si.ty.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 situe
/si.ty/		 situes
/si.ty/		 situe
/si.ty/		 situions
/si.ty.jɔ̃/		 situiez
/si.ty.je/		 situent
/si.ty/
imperfect2 situasse
/si.tɥas/		 situasses
/si.tɥas/		 situât
/si.tɥa/		 situassions
/si.tɥa.sjɔ̃/		 situassiez
/si.tɥa.sje/		 situassent
/si.tɥas/
(compound
tenses)		 past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — situe
/si.ty/		 — situons
/si.tɥɔ̃/		 situez
/si.tɥe/		 —
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).

Descendants
  • → German: situieren

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Verb

situer

  1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of situō
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