raccourcir
French edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
raccourcir
- (transitive) to shorten (to make shorter)
- Antonym: allonger
- (reflexive or intransitive) to shorten (to get shorter)
- Antonym: s’allonger
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 raccourcir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | raccourcir | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | raccourcissant /ʁa.kuʁ.si.sɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | raccourci /ʁa.kuʁ.si/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | raccourcis /ʁa.kuʁ.si/ |
raccourcis /ʁa.kuʁ.si/ |
raccourcit /ʁa.kuʁ.si/ |
raccourcissons /ʁa.kuʁ.si.sɔ̃/ |
raccourcissez /ʁa.kuʁ.si.se/ |
raccourcissent /ʁa.kuʁ.sis/ |
| imperfect | raccourcissais /ʁa.kuʁ.si.sɛ/ |
raccourcissais /ʁa.kuʁ.si.sɛ/ |
raccourcissait /ʁa.kuʁ.si.sɛ/ |
raccourcissions /ʁa.kuʁ.si.sjɔ̃/ |
raccourcissiez /ʁa.kuʁ.si.sje/ |
raccourcissaient /ʁa.kuʁ.si.sɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | raccourcis /ʁa.kuʁ.si/ |
raccourcis /ʁa.kuʁ.si/ |
raccourcit /ʁa.kuʁ.si/ |
raccourcîmes /ʁa.kuʁ.sim/ |
raccourcîtes /ʁa.kuʁ.sit/ |
raccourcirent /ʁa.kuʁ.siʁ/ | |
| future | raccourcirai /ʁa.kuʁ.si.ʁe/ |
raccourciras /ʁa.kuʁ.si.ʁa/ |
raccourcira /ʁa.kuʁ.si.ʁa/ |
raccourcirons /ʁa.kuʁ.si.ʁɔ̃/ |
raccourcirez /ʁa.kuʁ.si.ʁe/ |
raccourciront /ʁa.kuʁ.si.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | raccourcirais /ʁa.kuʁ.si.ʁɛ/ |
raccourcirais /ʁa.kuʁ.si.ʁɛ/ |
raccourcirait /ʁa.kuʁ.si.ʁɛ/ |
raccourcirions /ʁa.kuʁ.si.ʁjɔ̃/ |
raccourciriez /ʁa.kuʁ.si.ʁje/ |
raccourciraient /ʁa.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 | raccourcisse /ʁa.kuʁ.sis/ |
raccourcisses /ʁa.kuʁ.sis/ |
raccourcisse /ʁa.kuʁ.sis/ |
raccourcissions /ʁa.kuʁ.si.sjɔ̃/ |
raccourcissiez /ʁa.kuʁ.si.sje/ |
raccourcissent /ʁa.kuʁ.sis/ |
| imperfect2 | raccourcisse /ʁa.kuʁ.sis/ |
raccourcisses /ʁa.kuʁ.sis/ |
raccourcît /ʁa.kuʁ.si/ |
raccourcissions /ʁa.kuʁ.si.sjɔ̃/ |
raccourcissiez /ʁa.kuʁ.si.sje/ |
raccourcissent /ʁa.kuʁ.sis/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | raccourcis /ʁa.kuʁ.si/ |
— | raccourcissons /ʁa.kuʁ.si.sɔ̃/ |
raccourcissez /ʁa.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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
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Further reading edit
- “raccourcir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.