étrécir
French
Etymology
Old French estrecier, from Vulgar Latin *strictiare, from Latin strictus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /e.tʁe.siʁ/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -iʁ
Verb
étrécir
- (archaic, transitive) to make narrow
Usage notes
Only the prefixed verb rétrécir is used in contemporary French.
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 étrécir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | étrécir | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | étrécissant /e.tʁe.si.sɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | étréci /e.tʁe.si/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) | present | étrécis /e.tʁe.si/ | étrécis /e.tʁe.si/ | étrécit /e.tʁe.si/ | étrécissons /e.tʁe.si.sɔ̃/ | étrécissez /e.tʁe.si.se/ | étrécissent /e.tʁe.sis/ |
imperfect | étrécissais /e.tʁe.si.sɛ/ | étrécissais /e.tʁe.si.sɛ/ | étrécissait /e.tʁe.si.sɛ/ | étrécissions /e.tʁe.si.sjɔ̃/ | étrécissiez /e.tʁe.si.sje/ | étrécissaient /e.tʁe.si.sɛ/ | |
past historic2 | étrécis /e.tʁe.si/ | étrécis /e.tʁe.si/ | étrécit /e.tʁe.si/ | étrécîmes /e.tʁe.sim/ | étrécîtes /e.tʁe.sit/ | étrécirent /e.tʁe.siʁ/ | |
future | étrécirai /e.tʁe.si.ʁe/ | étréciras /e.tʁe.si.ʁa/ | étrécira /e.tʁe.si.ʁa/ | étrécirons /e.tʁe.si.ʁɔ̃/ | étrécirez /e.tʁe.si.ʁe/ | étréciront /e.tʁe.si.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | étrécirais /e.tʁe.si.ʁɛ/ | étrécirais /e.tʁe.si.ʁɛ/ | étrécirait /e.tʁe.si.ʁɛ/ | étrécirions /e.tʁe.si.ʁjɔ̃/ | étréciriez /e.tʁe.si.ʁje/ | étréciraient /e.tʁe.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 | étrécisse /e.tʁe.sis/ | étrécisses /e.tʁe.sis/ | étrécisse /e.tʁe.sis/ | étrécissions /e.tʁe.si.sjɔ̃/ | étrécissiez /e.tʁe.si.sje/ | étrécissent /e.tʁe.sis/ |
imperfect2 | étrécisse /e.tʁe.sis/ | étrécisses /e.tʁe.sis/ | étrécît /e.tʁe.si/ | étrécissions /e.tʁe.si.sjɔ̃/ | étrécissiez /e.tʁe.si.sje/ | étrécissent /e.tʁe.sis/ | |
(compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | étrécis /e.tʁe.si/ | — | étrécissons /e.tʁe.si.sɔ̃/ | étrécissez /e.tʁe.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
- “étrécir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- critère, réciter, récrite, rétréci, tiercer