fuyons

Fuyons is a French verb form derived from fuir, meaning to flee or to escape. It is most notably the first-person plural present indicative form: nous fuyons, which translates as “we flee.” The same form can also function as an inclusive imperative, as in Fuyons maintenant!, meaning “Let us flee now!” In modern French, the present tense form is used for both a simple statement about ongoing action and a collective exhortation, though the imperative is less common outside literary or rhetorical contexts.

Conjugation of the verb fuir in the present tense (illustrative forms): je fuis, tu fuis, il fuit, nous fuyons, vous fuyez, ils fuient. The form fuyons is therefore the plural first-person present. Other tenses and moods use corresponding inflected stems (for example, nous fuirions in the imperfect subjunctive, or nous fuirions in the conditional).

Etymology and usage: fuir comes from Old French fuir and ultimately from Latin fugere, “to flee.” The word is common in literary and historical registers, where characters or narrators describe escaping danger or seizing the opportunity to withdraw. In everyday speech, speakers more often use synonyms such as partir, s’enfuir, or fuir in specific idioms, but fuyons remains available for emphatic or formal contexts.

See also: fuir, fuite, fuyant, fuyard.