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rôtir
rôtir
See also: rostir
French
Verb
rôtir
- to roast
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 rôtir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | rôtir | avoir rôti | |||||
| gerund | en rôtissant | en ayant rôti | |||||
| present participle | rôtissant /ʁo.ti.sɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | rôti /ʁo.ti/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | rôtis /ʁo.ti/ |
rôtis /ʁo.ti/ |
rôtit /ʁo.ti/ |
rôtissons /ʁo.ti.sɔ̃/ |
rôtissez /ʁo.ti.se/ |
rôtissent /ʁo.tis/ |
| imperfect | rôtissais /ʁo.ti.sɛ/ |
rôtissais /ʁo.ti.sɛ/ |
rôtissait /ʁo.ti.sɛ/ |
rôtissions /ʁo.ti.sjɔ̃/ |
rôtissiez /ʁo.ti.sje/ |
rôtissaient /ʁo.ti.sɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | rôtis /ʁo.ti/ |
rôtis /ʁo.ti/ |
rôtit /ʁo.ti/ |
rôtîmes /ʁo.tim/ |
rôtîtes /ʁo.tit/ |
rôtirent /ʁo.tiʁ/ |
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| future | rôtirai /ʁo.ti.ʁe/ |
rôtiras /ʁo.ti.ʁa/ |
rôtira /ʁo.ti.ʁa/ |
rôtirons /ʁo.ti.ʁɔ̃/ |
rôtirez /ʁo.ti.ʁe/ |
rôtiront /ʁo.ti.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | rôtirais /ʁo.ti.ʁɛ/ |
rôtirais /ʁo.ti.ʁɛ/ |
rôtirait /ʁo.ti.ʁɛ/ |
rôtirions /ʁo.ti.ʁjɔ̃/ |
rôtiriez /ʁo.ti.ʁje/ |
rôtiraient /ʁo.ti.ʁɛ/ |
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| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior1 | Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | rôtisse /ʁo.tis/ |
rôtisses /ʁo.tis/ |
rôtisse /ʁo.tis/ |
rôtissions /ʁo.ti.sjɔ̃/ |
rôtissiez /ʁo.ti.sje/ |
rôtissent /ʁo.tis/ |
| imperfect1 |
rôtisse /ʁo.tis/ |
rôtisses /ʁo.tis/ |
rôtît /ʁo.ti/ |
rôtissions /ʁo.ti.sjɔ̃/ |
rôtissiez /ʁo.ti.sje/ |
rôtissent /ʁo.tis/ |
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| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | rôtis /ʁo.ti/ |
— | rôtissons /ʁo.ti.sɔ̃/ |
rôtissez /ʁo.ti.se/ |
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