rassir
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʁa.siʁ/
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Verb
rassir (defective)
- (intransitive) to go stale
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-. This verb is conjugated only in the third person.
Conjugation of rassir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | rassir | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | rassissant /ʁa.si.sɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | rassi /ʁa.si/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | — | — | rassit /ʁa.si/ |
— | — | rassissent /ʁa.sis/ |
| imperfect | — | — | rassissait /ʁa.si.sɛ/ |
— | — | rassissaient /ʁa.si.sɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | — | — | rassit /ʁa.si/ |
— | — | rassirent /ʁa.siʁ/ | |
| future | — | — | rassira /ʁa.si.ʁa/ |
— | — | rassiront /ʁa.si.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | — | — | rassirait /ʁa.si.ʁɛ/ |
— | — | rassiraient /ʁa.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 | — | — | rassisse /ʁa.sis/ |
— | — | rassissent /ʁa.sis/ |
| imperfect2 | — | — | rassît /ʁa.si/ |
— | — | rassissent /ʁa.sis/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| 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
- “rassir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.