rosir

French

Etymology

From rose +‎ -ir.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ʁo.ziʁ/
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Verb

rosir

to blush
to become or make pink

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 rosir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	compound	avoir + past participle
infinitive	simple	rosir
present participle or gerund¹	simple	rosissant /ʁo.zi.sɑ̃/
present participle or gerund¹	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		rosi /ʁo.zi/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	rosis /ʁo.zi/	rosis /ʁo.zi/	rosit /ʁo.zi/	rosissons /ʁo.zi.sɔ̃/	rosissez /ʁo.zi.se/	rosissent /ʁo.zis/
	imperfect	rosissais /ʁo.zi.sɛ/	rosissais /ʁo.zi.sɛ/	rosissait /ʁo.zi.sɛ/	rosissions /ʁo.zi.sjɔ̃/	rosissiez /ʁo.zi.sje/	rosissaient /ʁo.zi.sɛ/
	past historic²	rosis /ʁo.zi/	rosis /ʁo.zi/	rosit /ʁo.zi/	rosîmes /ʁo.zim/	rosîtes /ʁo.zit/	rosirent /ʁo.ziʁ/
	future	rosirai /ʁo.zi.ʁe/	rosiras /ʁo.zi.ʁa/	rosira /ʁo.zi.ʁa/	rosirons /ʁo.zi.ʁɔ̃/	rosirez /ʁo.zi.ʁe/	rosiront /ʁo.zi.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	rosirais /ʁo.zi.ʁɛ/	rosirais /ʁo.zi.ʁɛ/	rosirait /ʁo.zi.ʁɛ/	rosirions /ʁo.zi.ʁjɔ̃/	rosiriez /ʁo.zi.ʁje/	rosiraient /ʁo.zi.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	rosisse /ʁo.zis/	rosisses /ʁo.zis/	rosisse /ʁo.zis/	rosissions /ʁo.zi.sjɔ̃/	rosissiez /ʁo.zi.sje/	rosissent /ʁo.zis/
(simple tenses)	imperfect²	rosisse /ʁo.zis/	rosisses /ʁo.zis/	rosît /ʁo.zi/	rosissions /ʁo.zi.sjɔ̃/	rosissiez /ʁo.zi.sje/	rosissent /ʁo.zis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
(compound tenses)	pluperfect²	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	~~nous~~	~~vous~~	–
simple		—	rosis /ʁo.zi/	—	rosissons /ʁo.zi.sɔ̃/	rosissez /ʁo.zi.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).