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radoucir
radoucir
French
Verb
radoucir
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 radoucir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | radoucir | avoir radouci | |||||
| gerund | en radoucissant | en ayant radouci | |||||
| present participle | radoucissant /ʁa.du.si.sɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | radouci /ʁa.du.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 | radoucis /ʁa.du.si/ |
radoucis /ʁa.du.si/ |
radoucit /ʁa.du.si/ |
radoucissons /ʁa.du.si.sɔ̃/ |
radoucissez /ʁa.du.si.se/ |
radoucissent /ʁa.du.sis/ |
| imperfect | radoucissais /ʁa.du.si.sɛ/ |
radoucissais /ʁa.du.si.sɛ/ |
radoucissait /ʁa.du.si.sɛ/ |
radoucissions /ʁa.du.si.sjɔ̃/ |
radoucissiez /ʁa.du.si.sje/ |
radoucissaient /ʁa.du.si.sɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | radoucis /ʁa.du.si/ |
radoucis /ʁa.du.si/ |
radoucit /ʁa.du.si/ |
radoucîmes /ʁa.du.sim/ |
radoucîtes /ʁa.du.sit/ |
radoucirent /ʁa.du.siʁ/ |
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| future | radoucirai /ʁa.du.si.ʁe/ |
radouciras /ʁa.du.si.ʁa/ |
radoucira /ʁa.du.si.ʁa/ |
radoucirons /ʁa.du.si.ʁɔ̃/ |
radoucirez /ʁa.du.si.ʁe/ |
radouciront /ʁa.du.si.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | radoucirais /ʁa.du.si.ʁɛ/ |
radoucirais /ʁa.du.si.ʁɛ/ |
radoucirait /ʁa.du.si.ʁɛ/ |
radoucirions /ʁa.du.si.ʁjɔ̃/ |
radouciriez /ʁa.du.si.ʁje/ |
radouciraient /ʁa.du.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 | radoucisse /ʁa.du.sis/ |
radoucisses /ʁa.du.sis/ |
radoucisse /ʁa.du.sis/ |
radoucissions /ʁa.du.si.sjɔ̃/ |
radoucissiez /ʁa.du.si.sje/ |
radoucissent /ʁa.du.sis/ |
| imperfect1 |
radoucisse /ʁa.du.sis/ |
radoucisses /ʁa.du.sis/ |
radoucît /ʁa.du.si/ |
radoucissions /ʁa.du.si.sjɔ̃/ |
radoucissiez /ʁa.du.si.sje/ |
radoucissent /ʁa.du.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 | – | |
| — | radoucis /ʁa.du.si/ |
— | radoucissons /ʁa.du.si.sɔ̃/ |
radoucissez /ʁa.du.si.se/ |
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