accourcir

French

Etymology

From Old French acorcier (“to shorten”); morphologically, from a- +‎ court +‎ -ir.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.kuʁ.siʁ/

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Verb

accourcir

1. (archaic) to shorten

   Synonym: raccourcir

   Antonym: allonger

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 accourcir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	accourcir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	accourcissant /a.kuʁ.si.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		accourci /a.kuʁ.si/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	accourcis /a.kuʁ.si/	accourcis /a.kuʁ.si/	accourcit /a.kuʁ.si/	accourcissons /a.kuʁ.si.sɔ̃/	accourcissez /a.kuʁ.si.se/	accourcissent /a.kuʁ.sis/
	imperfect	accourcissais /a.kuʁ.si.sɛ/	accourcissais /a.kuʁ.si.sɛ/	accourcissait /a.kuʁ.si.sɛ/	accourcissions /a.kuʁ.si.sjɔ̃/	accourcissiez /a.kuʁ.si.sje/	accourcissaient /a.kuʁ.si.sɛ/
	past historic2	accourcis /a.kuʁ.si/	accourcis /a.kuʁ.si/	accourcit /a.kuʁ.si/	accourcîmes /a.kuʁ.sim/	accourcîtes /a.kuʁ.sit/	accourcirent /a.kuʁ.siʁ/
	future	accourcirai /a.kuʁ.si.ʁe/	accourciras /a.kuʁ.si.ʁa/	accourcira /a.kuʁ.si.ʁa/	accourcirons /a.kuʁ.si.ʁɔ̃/	accourcirez /a.kuʁ.si.ʁe/	accourciront /a.kuʁ.si.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	accourcirais /a.kuʁ.si.ʁɛ/	accourcirais /a.kuʁ.si.ʁɛ/	accourcirait /a.kuʁ.si.ʁɛ/	accourcirions /a.kuʁ.si.ʁjɔ̃/	accourciriez /a.kuʁ.si.ʁje/	accourciraient /a.kuʁ.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	accourcisse /a.kuʁ.sis/	accourcisses /a.kuʁ.sis/	accourcisse /a.kuʁ.sis/	accourcissions /a.kuʁ.si.sjɔ̃/	accourcissiez /a.kuʁ.si.sje/	accourcissent /a.kuʁ.sis/
	imperfect2	accourcisse /a.kuʁ.sis/	accourcisses /a.kuʁ.sis/	accourcît /a.kuʁ.si/	accourcissions /a.kuʁ.si.sjɔ̃/	accourcissiez /a.kuʁ.si.sje/	accourcissent /a.kuʁ.sis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	accourcis /a.kuʁ.si/	—	accourcissons /a.kuʁ.si.sɔ̃/	accourcissez /a.kuʁ.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: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Derived terms

• accourcissement
• raccourcir

Further reading

• “accourcir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.