raciner

French

Etymology

From racine +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

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Verb

raciner

1. (of plants, intransitive) to take root

Conjugation

Conjugation of raciner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	raciner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	racinant /ʁa.si.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		raciné /ʁa.si.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	racine /ʁa.sin/	racines /ʁa.sin/	racine /ʁa.sin/	racinons /ʁa.si.nɔ̃/	racinez /ʁa.si.ne/	racinent /ʁa.sin/
	imperfect	racinais /ʁa.si.nɛ/	racinais /ʁa.si.nɛ/	racinait /ʁa.si.nɛ/	racinions /ʁa.si.njɔ̃/	raciniez /ʁa.si.nje/	racinaient /ʁa.si.nɛ/
	past historic2	racinai /ʁa.si.ne/	racinas /ʁa.si.na/	racina /ʁa.si.na/	racinâmes /ʁa.si.nam/	racinâtes /ʁa.si.nat/	racinèrent /ʁa.si.nɛʁ/
	future	racinerai /ʁa.sin.ʁe/	racineras /ʁa.sin.ʁa/	racinera /ʁa.sin.ʁa/	racinerons /ʁa.sin.ʁɔ̃/	racinerez /ʁa.sin.ʁe/	racineront /ʁa.sin.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	racinerais /ʁa.sin.ʁɛ/	racinerais /ʁa.sin.ʁɛ/	racinerait /ʁa.sin.ʁɛ/	racinerions /ʁa.si.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	racineriez /ʁa.si.nə.ʁje/	racineraient /ʁa.sin.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	racine /ʁa.sin/	racines /ʁa.sin/	racine /ʁa.sin/	racinions /ʁa.si.njɔ̃/	raciniez /ʁa.si.nje/	racinent /ʁa.sin/
	imperfect2	racinasse /ʁa.si.nas/	racinasses /ʁa.si.nas/	racinât /ʁa.si.na/	racinassions /ʁa.si.na.sjɔ̃/	racinassiez /ʁa.si.na.sje/	racinassent /ʁa.si.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	racine /ʁa.sin/	—	racinons /ʁa.si.nɔ̃/	racinez /ʁa.si.ne/	—
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).

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• ricaner, rincera