rajuster

French

Etymology

From re- +‎ ajuster.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁa.ʒys.te/

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Verb

rajuster

1. (transitive) to adjust, readjust, correct
2. (transitive) to straighten, tidy (clothes)

Conjugation

Conjugation of rajuster (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	rajuster
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	rajustant /ʁa.ʒys.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		rajusté /ʁa.ʒys.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	rajuste /ʁa.ʒyst/	rajustes /ʁa.ʒyst/	rajuste /ʁa.ʒyst/	rajustons /ʁa.ʒys.tɔ̃/	rajustez /ʁa.ʒys.te/	rajustent /ʁa.ʒyst/
	imperfect	rajustais /ʁa.ʒys.tɛ/	rajustais /ʁa.ʒys.tɛ/	rajustait /ʁa.ʒys.tɛ/	rajustions /ʁa.ʒys.tjɔ̃/	rajustiez /ʁa.ʒys.tje/	rajustaient /ʁa.ʒys.tɛ/
	past historic2	rajustai /ʁa.ʒys.te/	rajustas /ʁa.ʒys.ta/	rajusta /ʁa.ʒys.ta/	rajustâmes /ʁa.ʒys.tam/	rajustâtes /ʁa.ʒys.tat/	rajustèrent /ʁa.ʒys.tɛʁ/
	future	rajusterai /ʁa.ʒys.tə.ʁe/	rajusteras /ʁa.ʒys.tə.ʁa/	rajustera /ʁa.ʒys.tə.ʁa/	rajusterons /ʁa.ʒys.tə.ʁɔ̃/	rajusterez /ʁa.ʒys.tə.ʁe/	rajusteront /ʁa.ʒys.tə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	rajusterais /ʁa.ʒys.tə.ʁɛ/	rajusterais /ʁa.ʒys.tə.ʁɛ/	rajusterait /ʁa.ʒys.tə.ʁɛ/	rajusterions /ʁa.ʒys.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	rajusteriez /ʁa.ʒys.tə.ʁje/	rajusteraient /ʁa.ʒys.tə.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	rajuste /ʁa.ʒyst/	rajustes /ʁa.ʒyst/	rajuste /ʁa.ʒyst/	rajustions /ʁa.ʒys.tjɔ̃/	rajustiez /ʁa.ʒys.tje/	rajustent /ʁa.ʒyst/
	imperfect2	rajustasse /ʁa.ʒys.tas/	rajustasses /ʁa.ʒys.tas/	rajustât /ʁa.ʒys.ta/	rajustassions /ʁa.ʒys.ta.sjɔ̃/	rajustassiez /ʁa.ʒys.ta.sje/	rajustassent /ʁa.ʒys.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	rajuste /ʁa.ʒyst/	—	rajustons /ʁa.ʒys.tɔ̃/	rajustez /ʁa.ʒys.te/	—
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

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