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renchérir
renchérir
French
Verb
renchérir
- (intransitive) to go further (in speech, actions etc.)
- (intransitive) to go one better
- (transitive) to increase; to put up the price of
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 renchérir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | renchérir | avoir renchéri | |||||
| gerund | en renchérissant | en ayant renchéri | |||||
| present participle | renchérissant /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.sɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | renchéri /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | renchéris /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi/ |
renchéris /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi/ |
renchérit /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi/ |
renchérissons /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.sɔ̃/ |
renchérissez /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.se/ |
renchérissent /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁis/ |
| imperfect | renchérissais /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.sɛ/ |
renchérissais /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.sɛ/ |
renchérissait /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.sɛ/ |
renchérissions /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.sjɔ̃/ |
renchérissiez /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.sje/ |
renchérissaient /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.sɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | renchéris /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi/ |
renchéris /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi/ |
renchérit /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi/ |
renchérîmes /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁim/ |
renchérîtes /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁit/ |
renchérirent /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁiʁ/ |
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| future | renchérirai /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.ʁe/ |
renchériras /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.ʁa/ |
renchérira /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.ʁa/ |
renchérirons /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.ʁɔ̃/ |
renchérirez /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.ʁe/ |
renchériront /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | renchérirais /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.ʁɛ/ |
renchérirais /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.ʁɛ/ |
renchérirait /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.ʁɛ/ |
renchéririons /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.ʁjɔ̃/ |
renchéririez /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.ʁje/ |
renchériraient /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.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 | renchérisse /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁis/ |
renchérisses /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁis/ |
renchérisse /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁis/ |
renchérissions /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.sjɔ̃/ |
renchérissiez /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.sje/ |
renchérissent /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁis/ |
| imperfect1 |
renchérisse /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁis/ |
renchérisses /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁis/ |
renchérît /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi/ |
renchérissions /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.sjɔ̃/ |
renchérissiez /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.sje/ |
renchérissent /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁis/ |
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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 | – | |
| — | renchéris /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi/ |
— | renchérissons /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.sɔ̃/ |
renchérissez /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.se/ |
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