doucir

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /du.siʁ/

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Verb

doucir

1. (transitive) to polish (looking-glasses)

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 doucir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	doucir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	doucissant /du.si.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		douci /du.si/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	doucis /du.si/	doucis /du.si/	doucit /du.si/	doucissons /du.si.sɔ̃/	doucissez /du.si.se/	doucissent /du.sis/
	imperfect	doucissais /du.si.sɛ/	doucissais /du.si.sɛ/	doucissait /du.si.sɛ/	doucissions /du.si.sjɔ̃/	doucissiez /du.si.sje/	doucissaient /du.si.sɛ/
	past historic2	doucis /du.si/	doucis /du.si/	doucit /du.si/	doucîmes /du.sim/	doucîtes /du.sit/	doucirent /du.siʁ/
	future	doucirai /du.si.ʁe/	douciras /du.si.ʁa/	doucira /du.si.ʁa/	doucirons /du.si.ʁɔ̃/	doucirez /du.si.ʁe/	douciront /du.si.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	doucirais /du.si.ʁɛ/	doucirais /du.si.ʁɛ/	doucirait /du.si.ʁɛ/	doucirions /du.si.ʁjɔ̃/	douciriez /du.si.ʁje/	douciraient /du.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	doucisse /du.sis/	doucisses /du.sis/	doucisse /du.sis/	doucissions /du.si.sjɔ̃/	doucissiez /du.si.sje/	doucissent /du.sis/
	imperfect2	doucisse /du.sis/	doucisses /du.sis/	doucît /du.si/	doucissions /du.si.sjɔ̃/	doucissiez /du.si.sje/	doucissent /du.sis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	doucis /du.si/	—	doucissons /du.si.sɔ̃/	doucissez /du.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: 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).