rancir
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
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Verb
rancir
- (intransitive) to go rancid
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 rancir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | rancir | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | rancissant /ʁɑ̃.si.sɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | ranci /ʁɑ̃.si/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | rancis /ʁɑ̃.si/ |
rancis /ʁɑ̃.si/ |
rancit /ʁɑ̃.si/ |
rancissons /ʁɑ̃.si.sɔ̃/ |
rancissez /ʁɑ̃.si.se/ |
rancissent /ʁɑ̃.sis/ |
| imperfect | rancissais /ʁɑ̃.si.sɛ/ |
rancissais /ʁɑ̃.si.sɛ/ |
rancissait /ʁɑ̃.si.sɛ/ |
rancissions /ʁɑ̃.si.sjɔ̃/ |
rancissiez /ʁɑ̃.si.sje/ |
rancissaient /ʁɑ̃.si.sɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | rancis /ʁɑ̃.si/ |
rancis /ʁɑ̃.si/ |
rancit /ʁɑ̃.si/ |
rancîmes /ʁɑ̃.sim/ |
rancîtes /ʁɑ̃.sit/ |
rancirent /ʁɑ̃.siʁ/ | |
| future | rancirai /ʁɑ̃.si.ʁe/ |
ranciras /ʁɑ̃.si.ʁa/ |
rancira /ʁɑ̃.si.ʁa/ |
rancirons /ʁɑ̃.si.ʁɔ̃/ |
rancirez /ʁɑ̃.si.ʁe/ |
ranciront /ʁɑ̃.si.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | rancirais /ʁɑ̃.si.ʁɛ/ |
rancirais /ʁɑ̃.si.ʁɛ/ |
rancirait /ʁɑ̃.si.ʁɛ/ |
rancirions /ʁɑ̃.si.ʁjɔ̃/ |
ranciriez /ʁɑ̃.si.ʁje/ |
ranciraient /ʁɑ̃.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 | rancisse /ʁɑ̃.sis/ |
rancisses /ʁɑ̃.sis/ |
rancisse /ʁɑ̃.sis/ |
rancissions /ʁɑ̃.si.sjɔ̃/ |
rancissiez /ʁɑ̃.si.sje/ |
rancissent /ʁɑ̃.sis/ |
| imperfect2 | rancisse /ʁɑ̃.sis/ |
rancisses /ʁɑ̃.sis/ |
rancît /ʁɑ̃.si/ |
rancissions /ʁɑ̃.si.sjɔ̃/ |
rancissiez /ʁɑ̃.si.sje/ |
rancissent /ʁɑ̃.sis/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | rancis /ʁɑ̃.si/ |
— | rancissons /ʁɑ̃.si.sɔ̃/ |
rancissez /ʁɑ̃.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
- rancissement
- rancissure
Further reading
- “rancir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.