rouir
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]rouir
- (transitive) to ret
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 rouir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | rouir | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | rouissant /ʁwi.sɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | roui /ʁwi/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | rouis /ʁwi/ |
rouis /ʁwi/ |
rouit /ʁwi/ |
rouissons /ʁwi.sɔ̃/ |
rouissez /ʁwi.se/ |
rouissent /ʁwis/ |
| imperfect | rouissais /ʁwi.sɛ/ |
rouissais /ʁwi.sɛ/ |
rouissait /ʁwi.sɛ/ |
rouissions /ʁwi.sjɔ̃/ |
rouissiez /ʁwi.sje/ |
rouissaient /ʁwi.sɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | rouis /ʁwi/ |
rouis /ʁwi/ |
rouit /ʁwi/ |
rouîmes /ʁwim/ |
rouîtes /ʁwit/ |
rouirent /ʁwiʁ/ | |
| future | rouirai /ʁwi.ʁe/ |
rouiras /ʁwi.ʁa/ |
rouira /ʁwi.ʁa/ |
rouirons /ʁwi.ʁɔ̃/ |
rouirez /ʁwi.ʁe/ |
rouiront /ʁwi.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | rouirais /ʁwi.ʁɛ/ |
rouirais /ʁwi.ʁɛ/ |
rouirait /ʁwi.ʁɛ/ |
rouirions /ʁwi.ʁjɔ̃/ |
rouiriez /ʁwi.ʁje/ |
rouiraient /ʁwi.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 | rouisse /ʁwis/ |
rouisses /ʁwis/ |
rouisse /ʁwis/ |
rouissions /ʁwi.sjɔ̃/ |
rouissiez /ʁwi.sje/ |
rouissent /ʁwis/ |
| imperfect2 | rouisse /ʁwis/ |
rouisses /ʁwis/ |
rouît /ʁwi/ |
rouissions /ʁwi.sjɔ̃/ |
rouissiez /ʁwi.sje/ |
rouissent /ʁwis/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | rouis /ʁwi/ |
— | rouissons /ʁwi.sɔ̃/ |
rouissez /ʁwi.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). | |||||||
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “rouir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.