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rassir
rassir
French
Verb
rassir
- (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-.
  Conjugation of rassir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | rassir | avoir rassi | |||||
| gerund | en rassissant | en ayant rassi | |||||
| present participle |  rassissant /ʁa.si.sɑ̃/  | 
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| past participle |  rassi /ʁa.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 |  rassis /ʁa.si/  | 
 rassis /ʁa.si/  | 
 rassit /ʁa.si/  | 
 rassissons /ʁa.si.sɔ̃/  | 
 rassissez /ʁa.si.se/  | 
 rassissent /ʁa.sis/  | 
| imperfect |  rassissais /ʁa.si.sɛ/  | 
 rassissais /ʁa.si.sɛ/  | 
 rassissait /ʁa.si.sɛ/  | 
 rassissions /ʁa.si.sjɔ̃/  | 
 rassissiez /ʁa.si.sje/  | 
 rassissaient /ʁa.si.sɛ/  | 
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| past historic1 |  rassis /ʁa.si/  | 
rassis /ʁa.si/  | 
rassit /ʁa.si/  | 
rassîmes /ʁa.sim/  | 
rassîtes /ʁa.sit/  | 
rassirent /ʁa.siʁ/  | 
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| future |  rassirai /ʁa.si.ʁe/  | 
 rassiras /ʁa.si.ʁa/  | 
 rassira /ʁa.si.ʁa/  | 
 rassirons /ʁa.si.ʁɔ̃/  | 
 rassirez /ʁa.si.ʁe/  | 
 rassiront /ʁa.si.ʁɔ̃/  | 
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| conditional |  rassirais /ʁa.si.ʁɛ/  | 
 rassirais /ʁa.si.ʁɛ/  | 
 rassirait /ʁa.si.ʁɛ/  | 
 rassirions /ʁa.si.ʁjɔ̃/  | 
 rassiriez /ʁa.si.ʁje/  | 
 rassiraient /ʁa.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 |  rassisse /ʁa.sis/  | 
 rassisses /ʁa.sis/  | 
 rassisse /ʁa.sis/  | 
 rassissions /ʁa.si.sjɔ̃/  | 
 rassissiez /ʁa.si.sje/  | 
 rassissent /ʁa.sis/  | 
| imperfect1 | 
rassisse /ʁa.sis/  | 
rassisses /ʁa.sis/  | 
rassît /ʁa.si/  | 
rassissions /ʁa.si.sjɔ̃/  | 
rassissiez /ʁa.si.sje/  | 
rassissent /ʁa.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 | – | |
| — |  rassis /ʁa.si/  | 
— |  rassissons /ʁa.si.sɔ̃/  | 
 rassissez /ʁa.si.se/  | 
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