rétrécir
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʁe.tʁe.siʁ/
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -iʁ
Verb
rétrécir
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 rétrécir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | rétrécir | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | rétrécissant /ʁe.tʁe.si.sɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | rétréci /ʁe.tʁe.si/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | rétrécis /ʁe.tʁe.si/ |
rétrécis /ʁe.tʁe.si/ |
rétrécit /ʁe.tʁe.si/ |
rétrécissons /ʁe.tʁe.si.sɔ̃/ |
rétrécissez /ʁe.tʁe.si.se/ |
rétrécissent /ʁe.tʁe.sis/ |
| imperfect | rétrécissais /ʁe.tʁe.si.sɛ/ |
rétrécissais /ʁe.tʁe.si.sɛ/ |
rétrécissait /ʁe.tʁe.si.sɛ/ |
rétrécissions /ʁe.tʁe.si.sjɔ̃/ |
rétrécissiez /ʁe.tʁe.si.sje/ |
rétrécissaient /ʁe.tʁe.si.sɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | rétrécis /ʁe.tʁe.si/ |
rétrécis /ʁe.tʁe.si/ |
rétrécit /ʁe.tʁe.si/ |
rétrécîmes /ʁe.tʁe.sim/ |
rétrécîtes /ʁe.tʁe.sit/ |
rétrécirent /ʁe.tʁe.siʁ/ | |
| future | rétrécirai /ʁe.tʁe.si.ʁe/ |
rétréciras /ʁe.tʁe.si.ʁa/ |
rétrécira /ʁe.tʁe.si.ʁa/ |
rétrécirons /ʁe.tʁe.si.ʁɔ̃/ |
rétrécirez /ʁe.tʁe.si.ʁe/ |
rétréciront /ʁe.tʁe.si.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | rétrécirais /ʁe.tʁe.si.ʁɛ/ |
rétrécirais /ʁe.tʁe.si.ʁɛ/ |
rétrécirait /ʁe.tʁe.si.ʁɛ/ |
rétrécirions /ʁe.tʁe.si.ʁjɔ̃/ |
rétréciriez /ʁe.tʁe.si.ʁje/ |
rétréciraient /ʁe.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 | rétrécisse /ʁe.tʁe.sis/ |
rétrécisses /ʁe.tʁe.sis/ |
rétrécisse /ʁe.tʁe.sis/ |
rétrécissions /ʁe.tʁe.si.sjɔ̃/ |
rétrécissiez /ʁe.tʁe.si.sje/ |
rétrécissent /ʁe.tʁe.sis/ |
| imperfect2 | rétrécisse /ʁe.tʁe.sis/ |
rétrécisses /ʁe.tʁe.sis/ |
rétrécît /ʁe.tʁe.si/ |
rétrécissions /ʁe.tʁe.si.sjɔ̃/ |
rétrécissiez /ʁe.tʁe.si.sje/ |
rétrécissent /ʁe.tʁe.sis/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | rétrécis /ʁe.tʁe.si/ |
— | rétrécissons /ʁe.tʁe.si.sɔ̃/ |
rétrécissez /ʁe.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). | |||||||
Derived terms
Further reading
- “rétrécir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.