froidir

French

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French, from froid +‎ -ir

Pronunciation

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Verb

froidir

1. (archaic) to cool; to cool off; to cool down

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 froidir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	froidir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	froidissant /fʁwa.di.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		froidi /fʁwa.di/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	froidis /fʁwa.di/	froidis /fʁwa.di/	froidit /fʁwa.di/	froidissons /fʁwa.di.sɔ̃/	froidissez /fʁwa.di.se/	froidissent /fʁwa.dis/
	imperfect	froidissais /fʁwa.di.sɛ/	froidissais /fʁwa.di.sɛ/	froidissait /fʁwa.di.sɛ/	froidissions /fʁwa.di.sjɔ̃/	froidissiez /fʁwa.di.sje/	froidissaient /fʁwa.di.sɛ/
	past historic2	froidis /fʁwa.di/	froidis /fʁwa.di/	froidit /fʁwa.di/	froidîmes /fʁwa.dim/	froidîtes /fʁwa.dit/	froidirent /fʁwa.diʁ/
	future	froidirai /fʁwa.di.ʁe/	froidiras /fʁwa.di.ʁa/	froidira /fʁwa.di.ʁa/	froidirons /fʁwa.di.ʁɔ̃/	froidirez /fʁwa.di.ʁe/	froidiront /fʁwa.di.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	froidirais /fʁwa.di.ʁɛ/	froidirais /fʁwa.di.ʁɛ/	froidirait /fʁwa.di.ʁɛ/	froidirions /fʁwa.di.ʁjɔ̃/	froidiriez /fʁwa.di.ʁje/	froidiraient /fʁwa.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	froidisse /fʁwa.dis/	froidisses /fʁwa.dis/	froidisse /fʁwa.dis/	froidissions /fʁwa.di.sjɔ̃/	froidissiez /fʁwa.di.sje/	froidissent /fʁwa.dis/
	imperfect2	froidisse /fʁwa.dis/	froidisses /fʁwa.dis/	froidît /fʁwa.di/	froidissions /fʁwa.di.sjɔ̃/	froidissiez /fʁwa.di.sje/	froidissent /fʁwa.dis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	froidis /fʁwa.di/	—	froidissons /fʁwa.di.sɔ̃/	froidissez /fʁwa.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).

Derived terms

• refroidir

Further reading

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

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Old French

Etymology

froide +‎ -ir

Verb

froidir

1. to chill; to cool
   • 12^th Century, Béroul, Tristan et Iseut:

     Li cuer el ventre li froidis.

     His heart in his stomach chilled him.