étrécir
French edit
Etymology edit
From Old French estrecier, from Vulgar Latin *strictiare, from Latin strictus.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
étrécir
- (archaic, transitive) to make narrow
Usage notes edit
Only the prefixed verb rétrécir is used in contemporary French.
Conjugation edit
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 étrécir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | étrécir | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | étrécissant /e.tʁe.si.sɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | étréci /e.tʁe.si/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | étrécis /e.tʁe.si/ |
étrécis /e.tʁe.si/ |
étrécit /e.tʁe.si/ |
étrécissons /e.tʁe.si.sɔ̃/ |
étrécissez /e.tʁe.si.se/ |
étrécissent /e.tʁe.sis/ |
| imperfect | étrécissais /e.tʁe.si.sɛ/ |
étrécissais /e.tʁe.si.sɛ/ |
étrécissait /e.tʁe.si.sɛ/ |
étrécissions /e.tʁe.si.sjɔ̃/ |
étrécissiez /e.tʁe.si.sje/ |
étrécissaient /e.tʁe.si.sɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | étrécis /e.tʁe.si/ |
étrécis /e.tʁe.si/ |
étrécit /e.tʁe.si/ |
étrécîmes /e.tʁe.sim/ |
étrécîtes /e.tʁe.sit/ |
étrécirent /e.tʁe.siʁ/ | |
| future | étrécirai /e.tʁe.si.ʁe/ |
étréciras /e.tʁe.si.ʁa/ |
étrécira /e.tʁe.si.ʁa/ |
étrécirons /e.tʁe.si.ʁɔ̃/ |
étrécirez /e.tʁe.si.ʁe/ |
étréciront /e.tʁe.si.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | étrécirais /e.tʁe.si.ʁɛ/ |
étrécirais /e.tʁe.si.ʁɛ/ |
étrécirait /e.tʁe.si.ʁɛ/ |
étrécirions /e.tʁe.si.ʁjɔ̃/ |
étréciriez /e.tʁe.si.ʁje/ |
étréciraient /e.tʁe.si.ʁɛ/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | étrécisse /e.tʁe.sis/ |
étrécisses /e.tʁe.sis/ |
étrécisse /e.tʁe.sis/ |
étrécissions /e.tʁe.si.sjɔ̃/ |
étrécissiez /e.tʁe.si.sje/ |
étrécissent /e.tʁe.sis/ |
| imperfect2 | étrécisse /e.tʁe.sis/ |
étrécisses /e.tʁe.sis/ |
étrécît /e.tʁe.si/ |
étrécissions /e.tʁe.si.sjɔ̃/ |
étrécissiez /e.tʁe.si.sje/ |
étrécissent /e.tʁe.sis/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | étrécis /e.tʁe.si/ |
— | étrécissons /e.tʁe.si.sɔ̃/ |
étrécissez /e.tʁe.si.se/ |
— | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Further reading edit
- “étrécir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.