sortir conjugation: all tenses in French, with meaning

/sɔʁtiʁ/

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Translation

to go out, to leave

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Word origin

Of debated origin. It is most often traced to Latin sortiri ('to draw lots, obtain by lot'), but some accounts derive it from a Vulgar Latin surrectus, from surgere ('to rise').

Origin: Latin
Root: sortiri

Other proposed origins

Most often traced to Latin sortiri ('to draw lots, obtain'). (sortiri)
Some accounts derive it from Vulgar Latin surctus, from surgere ('to rise'). (surgere)

Grammar

Verb type-ir irregular (3rd group)

Conjugation

Regular french-irregular conjugation. Pronouns: je, tu, il/elle, nous, vous, ils/elles.

Indicative

Person	Present	Imperfect	Past historic	Future	Conditional
je	sors	sortais	sortis	sortirai	sortirais
tu	sors	sortais	sortis	sortiras	sortirais
il/elle	sort	sortait	sortit	sortira	sortirait
nous	sortons	sortions	sortîmes	sortirons	sortirions
vous	sortez	sortiez	sortîtes	sortirez	sortiriez
ils/elles	sortent	sortaient	sortirent	sortiront	sortiraient

Subjunctive

Person	Present	Imperfect
je	sorte	sortisse
tu	sortes	sortisses
il/elle	sorte	sortît
nous	sortions	sortissions
vous	sortiez	sortissiez
ils/elles	sortent	sortissent

Imperative

Person	Affirmative
tu	sors
nous	sortons
vous	sortez

Non-finite

Gerund / present participle: sortant
Past participle: sorti · sortie · sortis · sorties

Examples

She goes out with her friends every Friday evening in town.

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I don't feel like going out tonight, it's raining too much.

This author's new novel came out last week.

These boxes need to be taken out of the office before the end of the day.

She left the room without saying a word.

a deux conjugaisons : intransitif (avec être aux temps composés : il est sorti) et transitif (avec avoir : il a sorti son téléphone). La distinction est importante pour l'accord du participe passé. Sortir intransitif signifie quitter un lieu ou aller dehors ; transitif signifie sortir quelque chose de quelque part.

S'en sortir (to manage, to cope, to get through it) est une expression très fréquente : tu t'en sors ? (are you coping?, do you manage?). Sortir de (to come from, to emerge from, to graduate from) : il sort de Sciences Po. Faire sortir (to take out, to produce) est la causative. En sortir (to get out of a difficult situation) : comment s'en sortir ?

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This word is taught in chapter 3, lesson 3: -ir verbs.