accourcir
French
Etymology
From Old French acorcier (“to shorten”); morphologically, from a- + court + -ir.
Pronunciation
Verb
accourcir
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 accourcir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | accourcir | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | accourcissant /a.kuʁ.si.sɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | accourci /a.kuʁ.si/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | accourcis /a.kuʁ.si/ |
accourcis /a.kuʁ.si/ |
accourcit /a.kuʁ.si/ |
accourcissons /a.kuʁ.si.sɔ̃/ |
accourcissez /a.kuʁ.si.se/ |
accourcissent /a.kuʁ.sis/ |
| imperfect | accourcissais /a.kuʁ.si.sɛ/ |
accourcissais /a.kuʁ.si.sɛ/ |
accourcissait /a.kuʁ.si.sɛ/ |
accourcissions /a.kuʁ.si.sjɔ̃/ |
accourcissiez /a.kuʁ.si.sje/ |
accourcissaient /a.kuʁ.si.sɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | accourcis /a.kuʁ.si/ |
accourcis /a.kuʁ.si/ |
accourcit /a.kuʁ.si/ |
accourcîmes /a.kuʁ.sim/ |
accourcîtes /a.kuʁ.sit/ |
accourcirent /a.kuʁ.siʁ/ | |
| future | accourcirai /a.kuʁ.si.ʁe/ |
accourciras /a.kuʁ.si.ʁa/ |
accourcira /a.kuʁ.si.ʁa/ |
accourcirons /a.kuʁ.si.ʁɔ̃/ |
accourcirez /a.kuʁ.si.ʁe/ |
accourciront /a.kuʁ.si.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | accourcirais /a.kuʁ.si.ʁɛ/ |
accourcirais /a.kuʁ.si.ʁɛ/ |
accourcirait /a.kuʁ.si.ʁɛ/ |
accourcirions /a.kuʁ.si.ʁjɔ̃/ |
accourciriez /a.kuʁ.si.ʁje/ |
accourciraient /a.kuʁ.si.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 | accourcisse /a.kuʁ.sis/ |
accourcisses /a.kuʁ.sis/ |
accourcisse /a.kuʁ.sis/ |
accourcissions /a.kuʁ.si.sjɔ̃/ |
accourcissiez /a.kuʁ.si.sje/ |
accourcissent /a.kuʁ.sis/ |
| imperfect2 | accourcisse /a.kuʁ.sis/ |
accourcisses /a.kuʁ.sis/ |
accourcît /a.kuʁ.si/ |
accourcissions /a.kuʁ.si.sjɔ̃/ |
accourcissiez /a.kuʁ.si.sje/ |
accourcissent /a.kuʁ.sis/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | accourcis /a.kuʁ.si/ |
— | accourcissons /a.kuʁ.si.sɔ̃/ |
accourcissez /a.kuʁ.si.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). | |||||||
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Further reading
- “accourcir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.