rassir
French
Etymology
From rassis + -ir.
Pronunciation
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Verb
rassir
- (intransitive) to go stale
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 rassir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | rassir | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | rassissant /ʁa.si.sɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | rassi /ʁa.si/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) | present | rassis /ʁa.si/ | rassis /ʁa.si/ | rassit /ʁa.si/ | rassissons /ʁa.si.sɔ̃/ | rassissez /ʁa.si.se/ | rassissent /ʁa.sis/ |
imperfect | rassissais /ʁa.si.sɛ/ | rassissais /ʁa.si.sɛ/ | rassissait /ʁa.si.sɛ/ | rassissions /ʁa.si.sjɔ̃/ | rassissiez /ʁa.si.sje/ | rassissaient /ʁa.si.sɛ/ | |
past historic2 | rassis /ʁa.si/ | rassis /ʁa.si/ | rassit /ʁa.si/ | rassîmes /ʁa.sim/ | rassîtes /ʁa.sit/ | rassirent /ʁa.siʁ/ | |
future | rassirai /ʁa.si.ʁe/ | rassiras /ʁa.si.ʁa/ | rassira /ʁa.si.ʁa/ | rassirons /ʁa.si.ʁɔ̃/ | rassirez /ʁa.si.ʁe/ | rassiront /ʁa.si.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | rassirais /ʁa.si.ʁɛ/ | rassirais /ʁa.si.ʁɛ/ | rassirait /ʁa.si.ʁɛ/ | rassirions /ʁa.si.ʁjɔ̃/ | rassiriez /ʁa.si.ʁje/ | rassiraient /ʁa.si.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 | rassisse /ʁa.sis/ | rassisses /ʁa.sis/ | rassisse /ʁa.sis/ | rassissions /ʁa.si.sjɔ̃/ | rassissiez /ʁa.si.sje/ | rassissent /ʁa.sis/ |
imperfect2 | rassisse /ʁa.sis/ | rassisses /ʁa.sis/ | rassît /ʁa.si/ | rassissions /ʁa.si.sjɔ̃/ | rassissiez /ʁa.si.sje/ | rassissent /ʁa.sis/ | |
(compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | rassis /ʁa.si/ | — | rassissons /ʁa.si.sɔ̃/ | rassissez /ʁa.si.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
- “rassir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.