Fassiez

Fassiez is a French verb form belonging to the present subjunctive of the verb faire, used with the second-person plural subject vous. In standard modern French it appears in clauses introduced by que, as in que vous fassiez, and it signals mood rather than a literal tense, conveying doubt, possibility, necessity, or a wish within subordinate sentences. The present subjunctive is a formal or literary mood, and while common in writing, it is less frequent in everyday speech where speakers may opt for other constructions.

Common uses include expressions that require the subjunctive, such as il faut que vous fassiez attention, afin qu’elle puisse progresser, or pour que vous fassiez ce que vous avez promis. In these contexts, faisiez or faisiez attention may appear in older or more formal registers, but the standard modern form for the second person plural is fassiez.

Fassiez is one of the forms produced by the irregular verb faire, whose present-subjunctive paradigm is: que je fasse, que tu fasses, qu’il fasse, que nous fassions, que vous fassiez, qu’ils fassent. The form contrasts with the other subjunctive personnels (fasse, fassent, fassions, fassiez) and with the more archaic imperfect subjunctive forms found in older texts.

Etymologically, faire derives from Latin facere, and the present-subjunctive forms, including fassiez, reflect historical phonetic and orthographic developments that stabilized in modern French. Fassiez thus functions primarily as a grammatical marker in formal or literary contexts rather than as a standalone lexical item.