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raccourcir
raccourcir
French
Verb
raccourcir
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 raccourcir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | raccourcir | avoir raccourci | |||||
| gerund | en raccourcissant | en ayant raccourci | |||||
| present participle | raccourcissant /ʁa.kuʁ.si.sɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | raccourci /ʁa.kuʁ.si/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | raccourcis /ʁa.kuʁ.si/ |
raccourcis /ʁa.kuʁ.si/ |
raccourcit /ʁa.kuʁ.si/ |
raccourcissons /ʁa.kuʁ.si.sɔ̃/ |
raccourcissez /ʁa.kuʁ.si.se/ |
raccourcissent /ʁa.kuʁ.sis/ |
| imperfect | raccourcissais /ʁa.kuʁ.si.sɛ/ |
raccourcissais /ʁa.kuʁ.si.sɛ/ |
raccourcissait /ʁa.kuʁ.si.sɛ/ |
raccourcissions /ʁa.kuʁ.si.sjɔ̃/ |
raccourcissiez /ʁa.kuʁ.si.sje/ |
raccourcissaient /ʁa.kuʁ.si.sɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | raccourcis /ʁa.kuʁ.si/ |
raccourcis /ʁa.kuʁ.si/ |
raccourcit /ʁa.kuʁ.si/ |
raccourcîmes /ʁa.kuʁ.sim/ |
raccourcîtes /ʁa.kuʁ.sit/ |
raccourcirent /ʁa.kuʁ.siʁ/ |
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| future | raccourcirai /ʁa.kuʁ.si.ʁe/ |
raccourciras /ʁa.kuʁ.si.ʁa/ |
raccourcira /ʁa.kuʁ.si.ʁa/ |
raccourcirons /ʁa.kuʁ.si.ʁɔ̃/ |
raccourcirez /ʁa.kuʁ.si.ʁe/ |
raccourciront /ʁa.kuʁ.si.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | raccourcirais /ʁa.kuʁ.si.ʁɛ/ |
raccourcirais /ʁa.kuʁ.si.ʁɛ/ |
raccourcirait /ʁa.kuʁ.si.ʁɛ/ |
raccourcirions /ʁa.kuʁ.si.ʁjɔ̃/ |
raccourciriez /ʁa.kuʁ.si.ʁje/ |
raccourciraient /ʁa.kuʁ.si.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 | raccourcisse /ʁa.kuʁ.sis/ |
raccourcisses /ʁa.kuʁ.sis/ |
raccourcisse /ʁa.kuʁ.sis/ |
raccourcissions /ʁa.kuʁ.si.sjɔ̃/ |
raccourcissiez /ʁa.kuʁ.si.sje/ |
raccourcissent /ʁa.kuʁ.sis/ |
| imperfect1 |
raccourcisse /ʁa.kuʁ.sis/ |
raccourcisses /ʁa.kuʁ.sis/ |
raccourcît /ʁa.kuʁ.si/ |
raccourcissions /ʁa.kuʁ.si.sjɔ̃/ |
raccourcissiez /ʁa.kuʁ.si.sje/ |
raccourcissent /ʁa.kuʁ.sis/ |
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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 | – | |
| — | raccourcis /ʁa.kuʁ.si/ |
— | raccourcissons /ʁa.kuʁ.si.sɔ̃/ |
raccourcissez /ʁa.kuʁ.si.se/ |
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| 1literary tenses | |||||||
Related terms
- court
- racourcissement