doucir
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /du.siʁ/
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Verb
doucir
- (transitive) to polish (looking-glasses)[1]
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 doucir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | doucir | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | doucissant /du.si.sɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | douci /du.si/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | doucis /du.si/ |
doucis /du.si/ |
doucit /du.si/ |
doucissons /du.si.sɔ̃/ |
doucissez /du.si.se/ |
doucissent /du.sis/ |
| imperfect | doucissais /du.si.sɛ/ |
doucissais /du.si.sɛ/ |
doucissait /du.si.sɛ/ |
doucissions /du.si.sjɔ̃/ |
doucissiez /du.si.sje/ |
doucissaient /du.si.sɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | doucis /du.si/ |
doucis /du.si/ |
doucit /du.si/ |
doucîmes /du.sim/ |
doucîtes /du.sit/ |
doucirent /du.siʁ/ | |
| future | doucirai /du.si.ʁe/ |
douciras /du.si.ʁa/ |
doucira /du.si.ʁa/ |
doucirons /du.si.ʁɔ̃/ |
doucirez /du.si.ʁe/ |
douciront /du.si.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | doucirais /du.si.ʁɛ/ |
doucirais /du.si.ʁɛ/ |
doucirait /du.si.ʁɛ/ |
doucirions /du.si.ʁjɔ̃/ |
douciriez /du.si.ʁje/ |
douciraient /du.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 | doucisse /du.sis/ |
doucisses /du.sis/ |
doucisse /du.sis/ |
doucissions /du.si.sjɔ̃/ |
doucissiez /du.si.sje/ |
doucissent /du.sis/ |
| imperfect2 | doucisse /du.sis/ |
doucisses /du.sis/ |
doucît /du.si/ |
doucissions /du.si.sjɔ̃/ |
doucissiez /du.si.sje/ |
doucissent /du.sis/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | doucis /du.si/ |
— | doucissons /du.si.sɔ̃/ |
doucissez /du.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). | |||||||
References
Further reading
- “doucir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.