rabougrir

French

Etymology

From re- +‎ abougrir.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁa.bu.ɡʁiʁ/

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Verb

rabougrir

1. (transitive) to stunt

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 rabougrir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	rabougrir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	rabougrissant /ʁa.bu.ɡʁi.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		rabougri /ʁa.bu.ɡʁi/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	rabougris /ʁa.bu.ɡʁi/	rabougris /ʁa.bu.ɡʁi/	rabougrit /ʁa.bu.ɡʁi/	rabougrissons /ʁa.bu.ɡʁi.sɔ̃/	rabougrissez /ʁa.bu.ɡʁi.se/	rabougrissent /ʁa.bu.ɡʁis/
	imperfect	rabougrissais /ʁa.bu.ɡʁi.sɛ/	rabougrissais /ʁa.bu.ɡʁi.sɛ/	rabougrissait /ʁa.bu.ɡʁi.sɛ/	rabougrissions /ʁa.bu.ɡʁi.sjɔ̃/	rabougrissiez /ʁa.bu.ɡʁi.sje/	rabougrissaient /ʁa.bu.ɡʁi.sɛ/
	past historic2	rabougris /ʁa.bu.ɡʁi/	rabougris /ʁa.bu.ɡʁi/	rabougrit /ʁa.bu.ɡʁi/	rabougrîmes /ʁa.bu.ɡʁim/	rabougrîtes /ʁa.bu.ɡʁit/	rabougrirent /ʁa.bu.ɡʁiʁ/
	future	rabougrirai /ʁa.bu.ɡʁi.ʁe/	rabougriras /ʁa.bu.ɡʁi.ʁa/	rabougrira /ʁa.bu.ɡʁi.ʁa/	rabougrirons /ʁa.bu.ɡʁi.ʁɔ̃/	rabougrirez /ʁa.bu.ɡʁi.ʁe/	rabougriront /ʁa.bu.ɡʁi.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	rabougrirais /ʁa.bu.ɡʁi.ʁɛ/	rabougrirais /ʁa.bu.ɡʁi.ʁɛ/	rabougrirait /ʁa.bu.ɡʁi.ʁɛ/	rabougririons /ʁa.bu.ɡʁi.ʁjɔ̃/	rabougririez /ʁa.bu.ɡʁi.ʁje/	rabougriraient /ʁa.bu.ɡʁi.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	rabougrisse /ʁa.bu.ɡʁis/	rabougrisses /ʁa.bu.ɡʁis/	rabougrisse /ʁa.bu.ɡʁis/	rabougrissions /ʁa.bu.ɡʁi.sjɔ̃/	rabougrissiez /ʁa.bu.ɡʁi.sje/	rabougrissent /ʁa.bu.ɡʁis/
	imperfect2	rabougrisse /ʁa.bu.ɡʁis/	rabougrisses /ʁa.bu.ɡʁis/	rabougrît /ʁa.bu.ɡʁi/	rabougrissions /ʁa.bu.ɡʁi.sjɔ̃/	rabougrissiez /ʁa.bu.ɡʁi.sje/	rabougrissent /ʁa.bu.ɡʁis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	rabougris /ʁa.bu.ɡʁi/	—	rabougrissons /ʁa.bu.ɡʁi.sɔ̃/	rabougrissez /ʁa.bu.ɡʁi.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).

Derived terms

• rabougri
• rabougrissement

Further reading

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