racornir
French
Pronunciation
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Verb
racornir
- to harden
Conjugation
This is a regular verb of the second conjugation, like finir, choisir, and most other verbs with infinitives ending in -ir. One salient feature of this conjugation is the repeated appearance of the infix -iss-.
Conjugation of racornir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | racornir | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | racornissant /ʁa.kɔʁ.ni.sɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | racorni /ʁa.kɔʁ.ni/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) | present | racornis /ʁa.kɔʁ.ni/ | racornis /ʁa.kɔʁ.ni/ | racornit /ʁa.kɔʁ.ni/ | racornissons /ʁa.kɔʁ.ni.sɔ̃/ | racornissez /ʁa.kɔʁ.ni.se/ | racornissent /ʁa.kɔʁ.nis/ |
imperfect | racornissais /ʁa.kɔʁ.ni.sɛ/ | racornissais /ʁa.kɔʁ.ni.sɛ/ | racornissait /ʁa.kɔʁ.ni.sɛ/ | racornissions /ʁa.kɔʁ.ni.sjɔ̃/ | racornissiez /ʁa.kɔʁ.ni.sje/ | racornissaient /ʁa.kɔʁ.ni.sɛ/ | |
past historic2 | racornis /ʁa.kɔʁ.ni/ | racornis /ʁa.kɔʁ.ni/ | racornit /ʁa.kɔʁ.ni/ | racornîmes /ʁa.kɔʁ.nim/ | racornîtes /ʁa.kɔʁ.nit/ | racornirent /ʁa.kɔʁ.niʁ/ | |
future | racornirai /ʁa.kɔʁ.ni.ʁe/ | racorniras /ʁa.kɔʁ.ni.ʁa/ | racornira /ʁa.kɔʁ.ni.ʁa/ | racornirons /ʁa.kɔʁ.ni.ʁɔ̃/ | racornirez /ʁa.kɔʁ.ni.ʁe/ | racorniront /ʁa.kɔʁ.ni.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | racornirais /ʁa.kɔʁ.ni.ʁɛ/ | racornirais /ʁa.kɔʁ.ni.ʁɛ/ | racornirait /ʁa.kɔʁ.ni.ʁɛ/ | racornirions /ʁa.kɔʁ.ni.ʁjɔ̃/ | racorniriez /ʁa.kɔʁ.ni.ʁje/ | racorniraient /ʁa.kɔʁ.ni.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 | racornisse /ʁa.kɔʁ.nis/ | racornisses /ʁa.kɔʁ.nis/ | racornisse /ʁa.kɔʁ.nis/ | racornissions /ʁa.kɔʁ.ni.sjɔ̃/ | racornissiez /ʁa.kɔʁ.ni.sje/ | racornissent /ʁa.kɔʁ.nis/ |
imperfect2 | racornisse /ʁa.kɔʁ.nis/ | racornisses /ʁa.kɔʁ.nis/ | racornît /ʁa.kɔʁ.ni/ | racornissions /ʁa.kɔʁ.ni.sjɔ̃/ | racornissiez /ʁa.kɔʁ.ni.sje/ | racornissent /ʁa.kɔʁ.nis/ | |
(compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | racornis /ʁa.kɔʁ.ni/ | — | racornissons /ʁa.kɔʁ.ni.sɔ̃/ | racornissez /ʁa.kɔʁ.ni.se/ | — | |
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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). |
Further reading
- “racornir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.