candir

French

Etymology

candi +‎ -ir.

Pronunciation

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Verb

candir

1. (intransitive) to crystallize
2. (transitive) to cover with crystallized sugar

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 candir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	candir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	candissant /kɑ̃.di.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		candi /kɑ̃.di/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	candis /kɑ̃.di/	candis /kɑ̃.di/	candit /kɑ̃.di/	candissons /kɑ̃.di.sɔ̃/	candissez /kɑ̃.di.se/	candissent /kɑ̃.dis/
	imperfect	candissais /kɑ̃.di.sɛ/	candissais /kɑ̃.di.sɛ/	candissait /kɑ̃.di.sɛ/	candissions /kɑ̃.di.sjɔ̃/	candissiez /kɑ̃.di.sje/	candissaient /kɑ̃.di.sɛ/
	past historic2	candis /kɑ̃.di/	candis /kɑ̃.di/	candit /kɑ̃.di/	candîmes /kɑ̃.dim/	candîtes /kɑ̃.dit/	candirent /kɑ̃.diʁ/
	future	candirai /kɑ̃.di.ʁe/	candiras /kɑ̃.di.ʁa/	candira /kɑ̃.di.ʁa/	candirons /kɑ̃.di.ʁɔ̃/	candirez /kɑ̃.di.ʁe/	candiront /kɑ̃.di.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	candirais /kɑ̃.di.ʁɛ/	candirais /kɑ̃.di.ʁɛ/	candirait /kɑ̃.di.ʁɛ/	candirions /kɑ̃.di.ʁjɔ̃/	candiriez /kɑ̃.di.ʁje/	candiraient /kɑ̃.di.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	candisse /kɑ̃.dis/	candisses /kɑ̃.dis/	candisse /kɑ̃.dis/	candissions /kɑ̃.di.sjɔ̃/	candissiez /kɑ̃.di.sje/	candissent /kɑ̃.dis/
	imperfect2	candisse /kɑ̃.dis/	candisses /kɑ̃.dis/	candît /kɑ̃.di/	candissions /kɑ̃.di.sjɔ̃/	candissiez /kɑ̃.di.sje/	candissent /kɑ̃.dis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	candis /kɑ̃.di/	—	candissons /kɑ̃.di.sɔ̃/	candissez /kɑ̃.di.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).

Further reading

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