Souffrir ("to suffer," "to endure," to tolerate," "to be in pain") is an irregular French -ir verb. Below are simple conjugations of the verb souffrir; the conjugation table does not include compound tenses, which consist of a form of the auxiliary verb avoir with the past participle souffert.

Within irregular -ir verb conjugations, there are some patterns. Two groups exhibit similar characteristics and conjugation patterns.

Then there is a final, large category of extremely irregular -ir verbs that follow no pattern.

'Souffrir' IS AN IRREGULAR '-IR-' VERB

Soufrir lies in the second group of irregular -ir verbs that display a pattern. The second group of verbs includes verbs like souffrir that all end in -frir or -vrir. These verbs, surprisingly, are all conjugated like regular -er verbs.

'Souffrir' IS CONJUGATED LIKE VERBS ENDING IN '-FRIR' AND '-VRIR'

All French verbs that end in -frir or -vrir are conjugated this way. They include:

couvrir > to cover

cueillir > to pick

découvrir > to discover

entrouvrir > to half-open

ouvrir > to open

offrir > to offer

recouvrir > to recover, conceal

rouvrir > to reopen

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