ramollir
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʁa.mɔ.liʁ/
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Verb
ramollir
- to soften, to mollify
- (figuratively) to weaken (one's will), to soften up (someone)
- (pronominal, se ramollir) to become soft, to soften
- 2023, Fabcaro, Didier Conrad, L'iris blanc [Asterix and the White Iris] (Asterix), Vanves: Hachette, →ISBN, page 16:
- Je me demande si Panoramix n'avait pas raison. Nos amis commencent à sérieusement se ramollir …
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (pronominal, figuratively, of one's will) to weaken, to soften
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 ramollir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | ramollir | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | ramollissant /ʁa.mɔ.li.sɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | ramolli /ʁa.mɔ.li/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | ramollis /ʁa.mɔ.li/ |
ramollis /ʁa.mɔ.li/ |
ramollit /ʁa.mɔ.li/ |
ramollissons /ʁa.mɔ.li.sɔ̃/ |
ramollissez /ʁa.mɔ.li.se/ |
ramollissent /ʁa.mɔ.lis/ |
| imperfect | ramollissais /ʁa.mɔ.li.sɛ/ |
ramollissais /ʁa.mɔ.li.sɛ/ |
ramollissait /ʁa.mɔ.li.sɛ/ |
ramollissions /ʁa.mɔ.li.sjɔ̃/ |
ramollissiez /ʁa.mɔ.li.sje/ |
ramollissaient /ʁa.mɔ.li.sɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | ramollis /ʁa.mɔ.li/ |
ramollis /ʁa.mɔ.li/ |
ramollit /ʁa.mɔ.li/ |
ramollîmes /ʁa.mɔ.lim/ |
ramollîtes /ʁa.mɔ.lit/ |
ramollirent /ʁa.mɔ.liʁ/ | |
| future | ramollirai /ʁa.mɔ.li.ʁe/ |
ramolliras /ʁa.mɔ.li.ʁa/ |
ramollira /ʁa.mɔ.li.ʁa/ |
ramollirons /ʁa.mɔ.li.ʁɔ̃/ |
ramollirez /ʁa.mɔ.li.ʁe/ |
ramolliront /ʁa.mɔ.li.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | ramollirais /ʁa.mɔ.li.ʁɛ/ |
ramollirais /ʁa.mɔ.li.ʁɛ/ |
ramollirait /ʁa.mɔ.li.ʁɛ/ |
ramollirions /ʁa.mɔ.li.ʁjɔ̃/ |
ramolliriez /ʁa.mɔ.li.ʁje/ |
ramolliraient /ʁa.mɔ.li.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 | ramollisse /ʁa.mɔ.lis/ |
ramollisses /ʁa.mɔ.lis/ |
ramollisse /ʁa.mɔ.lis/ |
ramollissions /ʁa.mɔ.li.sjɔ̃/ |
ramollissiez /ʁa.mɔ.li.sje/ |
ramollissent /ʁa.mɔ.lis/ |
| imperfect2 | ramollisse /ʁa.mɔ.lis/ |
ramollisses /ʁa.mɔ.lis/ |
ramollît /ʁa.mɔ.li/ |
ramollissions /ʁa.mɔ.li.sjɔ̃/ |
ramollissiez /ʁa.mɔ.li.sje/ |
ramollissent /ʁa.mɔ.lis/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | ramollis /ʁa.mɔ.li/ |
— | ramollissons /ʁa.mɔ.li.sɔ̃/ |
ramollissez /ʁa.mɔ.li.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). | |||||||
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Further reading
- “ramollir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.