renchérir
French edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
renchérir
- (intransitive) to go further (in speech, actions etc.)
- (intransitive) to go one better
- (transitive) to increase; to put up the price of
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 renchérir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | renchérir | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | renchérissant /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.sɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | renchéri /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | renchéris /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi/ |
renchéris /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi/ |
renchérit /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi/ |
renchérissons /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.sɔ̃/ |
renchérissez /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.se/ |
renchérissent /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁis/ |
| imperfect | renchérissais /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.sɛ/ |
renchérissais /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.sɛ/ |
renchérissait /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.sɛ/ |
renchérissions /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.sjɔ̃/ |
renchérissiez /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.sje/ |
renchérissaient /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.sɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | renchéris /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi/ |
renchéris /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi/ |
renchérit /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi/ |
renchérîmes /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁim/ |
renchérîtes /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁit/ |
renchérirent /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁiʁ/ | |
| future | renchérirai /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.ʁe/ |
renchériras /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.ʁa/ |
renchérira /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.ʁa/ |
renchérirons /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.ʁɔ̃/ |
renchérirez /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.ʁe/ |
renchériront /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | renchérirais /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.ʁɛ/ |
renchérirais /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.ʁɛ/ |
renchérirait /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.ʁɛ/ |
renchéririons /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.ʁjɔ̃/ |
renchéririez /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.ʁje/ |
renchériraient /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.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 | renchérisse /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁis/ |
renchérisses /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁis/ |
renchérisse /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁis/ |
renchérissions /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.sjɔ̃/ |
renchérissiez /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.sje/ |
renchérissent /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁis/ |
| imperfect2 | renchérisse /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁis/ |
renchérisses /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁis/ |
renchérît /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi/ |
renchérissions /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.sjɔ̃/ |
renchérissiez /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.sje/ |
renchérissent /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁis/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | renchéris /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi/ |
— | renchérissons /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.sɔ̃/ |
renchérissez /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.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). | |||||||
Further reading edit
- “renchérir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.