arrondir

French

Etymology

From a- +‎ rond +‎ -ir.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.ʁɔ̃.diʁ/

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Verb

arrondir

1. to round (make round)
2. (of a sum of money) to round up, round down or round off

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 arrondir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	arrondir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	arrondissant /a.ʁɔ̃.di.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		arrondi /a.ʁɔ̃.di/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	arrondis /a.ʁɔ̃.di/	arrondis /a.ʁɔ̃.di/	arrondit /a.ʁɔ̃.di/	arrondissons /a.ʁɔ̃.di.sɔ̃/	arrondissez /a.ʁɔ̃.di.se/	arrondissent /a.ʁɔ̃.dis/
	imperfect	arrondissais /a.ʁɔ̃.di.sɛ/	arrondissais /a.ʁɔ̃.di.sɛ/	arrondissait /a.ʁɔ̃.di.sɛ/	arrondissions /a.ʁɔ̃.di.sjɔ̃/	arrondissiez /a.ʁɔ̃.di.sje/	arrondissaient /a.ʁɔ̃.di.sɛ/
	past historic2	arrondis /a.ʁɔ̃.di/	arrondis /a.ʁɔ̃.di/	arrondit /a.ʁɔ̃.di/	arrondîmes /a.ʁɔ̃.dim/	arrondîtes /a.ʁɔ̃.dit/	arrondirent /a.ʁɔ̃.diʁ/
	future	arrondirai /a.ʁɔ̃.di.ʁe/	arrondiras /a.ʁɔ̃.di.ʁa/	arrondira /a.ʁɔ̃.di.ʁa/	arrondirons /a.ʁɔ̃.di.ʁɔ̃/	arrondirez /a.ʁɔ̃.di.ʁe/	arrondiront /a.ʁɔ̃.di.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	arrondirais /a.ʁɔ̃.di.ʁɛ/	arrondirais /a.ʁɔ̃.di.ʁɛ/	arrondirait /a.ʁɔ̃.di.ʁɛ/	arrondirions /a.ʁɔ̃.di.ʁjɔ̃/	arrondiriez /a.ʁɔ̃.di.ʁje/	arrondiraient /a.ʁɔ̃.di.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	arrondisse /a.ʁɔ̃.dis/	arrondisses /a.ʁɔ̃.dis/	arrondisse /a.ʁɔ̃.dis/	arrondissions /a.ʁɔ̃.di.sjɔ̃/	arrondissiez /a.ʁɔ̃.di.sje/	arrondissent /a.ʁɔ̃.dis/
	imperfect2	arrondisse /a.ʁɔ̃.dis/	arrondisses /a.ʁɔ̃.dis/	arrondît /a.ʁɔ̃.di/	arrondissions /a.ʁɔ̃.di.sjɔ̃/	arrondissiez /a.ʁɔ̃.di.sje/	arrondissent /a.ʁɔ̃.dis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	arrondis /a.ʁɔ̃.di/	—	arrondissons /a.ʁɔ̃.di.sɔ̃/	arrondissez /a.ʁɔ̃.di.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

• arrondir les angles
• arrondir ses fins de mois
• arrondissement

Further reading

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