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rosir
rosir
French
Verb
rosir
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 rosir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | rosir | avoir rosi | |||||
| gerund | en rosissant | en ayant rosi | |||||
| present participle |  rosissant /ʁo.zi.sɑ̃/  | 
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| past participle |  rosi /ʁo.zi/  | 
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
|  simple tenses  | 
present |  rosis /ʁo.zi/  | 
 rosis /ʁo.zi/  | 
 rosit /ʁo.zi/  | 
 rosissons /ʁo.zi.sɔ̃/  | 
 rosissez /ʁo.zi.se/  | 
 rosissent /ʁo.zis/  | 
| imperfect |  rosissais /ʁo.zi.sɛ/  | 
 rosissais /ʁo.zi.sɛ/  | 
 rosissait /ʁo.zi.sɛ/  | 
 rosissions /ʁo.zi.sjɔ̃/  | 
 rosissiez /ʁo.zi.sje/  | 
 rosissaient /ʁo.zi.sɛ/  | 
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| past historic1 |  rosis /ʁo.zi/  | 
rosis /ʁo.zi/  | 
rosit /ʁo.zi/  | 
rosîmes /ʁo.zim/  | 
rosîtes /ʁo.zit/  | 
rosirent /ʁo.ziʁ/  | 
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| future |  rosirai /ʁo.zi.ʁe/  | 
 rosiras /ʁo.zi.ʁa/  | 
 rosira /ʁo.zi.ʁa/  | 
 rosirons /ʁo.zi.ʁɔ̃/  | 
 rosirez /ʁo.zi.ʁe/  | 
 rosiront /ʁo.zi.ʁɔ̃/  | 
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| conditional |  rosirais /ʁo.zi.ʁɛ/  | 
 rosirais /ʁo.zi.ʁɛ/  | 
 rosirait /ʁo.zi.ʁɛ/  | 
 rosirions /ʁo.zi.ʁjɔ̃/  | 
 rosiriez /ʁo.zi.ʁje/  | 
 rosiraient /ʁo.zi.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 |  rosisse /ʁo.zis/  | 
 rosisses /ʁo.zis/  | 
 rosisse /ʁo.zis/  | 
 rosissions /ʁo.zi.sjɔ̃/  | 
 rosissiez /ʁo.zi.sje/  | 
 rosissent /ʁo.zis/  | 
| imperfect1 | 
rosisse /ʁo.zis/  | 
rosisses /ʁo.zis/  | 
rosît /ʁo.zi/  | 
rosissions /ʁo.zi.sjɔ̃/  | 
rosissiez /ʁo.zi.sje/  | 
rosissent /ʁo.zis/  | 
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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 | – | |
| — |  rosis /ʁo.zi/  | 
— |  rosissons /ʁo.zi.sɔ̃/  | 
 rosissez /ʁo.zi.se/  | 
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