rapetisser

French

Pronunciation

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Verb

rapetisser

1. to shrink or shorten

Conjugation

Conjugation of rapetisser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	rapetisser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	rapetissant /ʁap.ti.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		rapetissé /ʁap.ti.se/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	rapetisse /ʁap.tis/	rapetisses /ʁap.tis/	rapetisse /ʁap.tis/	rapetissons /ʁap.ti.sɔ̃/	rapetissez /ʁap.ti.se/	rapetissent /ʁap.tis/
	imperfect	rapetissais /ʁap.ti.sɛ/	rapetissais /ʁap.ti.sɛ/	rapetissait /ʁap.ti.sɛ/	rapetissions /ʁap.ti.sjɔ̃/	rapetissiez /ʁap.ti.sje/	rapetissaient /ʁap.ti.sɛ/
	past historic2	rapetissai /ʁap.ti.se/	rapetissas /ʁap.ti.sa/	rapetissa /ʁap.ti.sa/	rapetissâmes /ʁap.ti.sam/	rapetissâtes /ʁap.ti.sat/	rapetissèrent /ʁap.ti.sɛʁ/
	future	rapetisserai /ʁap.ti.sʁe/	rapetisseras /ʁap.ti.sʁa/	rapetissera /ʁap.ti.sʁa/	rapetisserons /ʁap.ti.sʁɔ̃/	rapetisserez /ʁap.ti.sʁe/	rapetisseront /ʁap.ti.sʁɔ̃/
	conditional	rapetisserais /ʁap.ti.sʁɛ/	rapetisserais /ʁap.ti.sʁɛ/	rapetisserait /ʁap.ti.sʁɛ/	rapetisserions /ʁap.ti.sə.ʁjɔ̃/	rapetisseriez /ʁap.ti.sə.ʁje/	rapetisseraient /ʁap.ti.sʁɛ/
(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	rapetisse /ʁap.tis/	rapetisses /ʁap.tis/	rapetisse /ʁap.tis/	rapetissions /ʁap.ti.sjɔ̃/	rapetissiez /ʁap.ti.sje/	rapetissent /ʁap.tis/
	imperfect2	rapetissasse /ʁap.ti.sas/	rapetissasses /ʁap.ti.sas/	rapetissât /ʁap.ti.sa/	rapetissassions /ʁap.ti.sa.sjɔ̃/	rapetissassiez /ʁap.ti.sa.sje/	rapetissassent /ʁap.ti.sas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	rapetisse /ʁap.tis/	—	rapetissons /ʁap.ti.sɔ̃/	rapetissez /ʁap.ti.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).

Further reading

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