raccourcir

French

Etymology

From r- +‎ accourcir.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁa.kuʁ.siʁ/

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Verb

raccourcir

1. (transitive) to shorten (to make shorter)

   Antonym: allonger

2. (reflexive or intransitive) to shorten (to get shorter)

   Antonym: s'allonger

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 raccourcir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	raccourcir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	raccourcissant /ʁa.kuʁ.si.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		raccourci /ʁa.kuʁ.si/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	raccourcis /ʁa.kuʁ.si/	raccourcis /ʁa.kuʁ.si/	raccourcit /ʁa.kuʁ.si/	raccourcissons /ʁa.kuʁ.si.sɔ̃/	raccourcissez /ʁa.kuʁ.si.se/	raccourcissent /ʁa.kuʁ.sis/
	imperfect	raccourcissais /ʁa.kuʁ.si.sɛ/	raccourcissais /ʁa.kuʁ.si.sɛ/	raccourcissait /ʁa.kuʁ.si.sɛ/	raccourcissions /ʁa.kuʁ.si.sjɔ̃/	raccourcissiez /ʁa.kuʁ.si.sje/	raccourcissaient /ʁa.kuʁ.si.sɛ/
	past historic2	raccourcis /ʁa.kuʁ.si/	raccourcis /ʁa.kuʁ.si/	raccourcit /ʁa.kuʁ.si/	raccourcîmes /ʁa.kuʁ.sim/	raccourcîtes /ʁa.kuʁ.sit/	raccourcirent /ʁa.kuʁ.siʁ/
	future	raccourcirai /ʁa.kuʁ.si.ʁe/	raccourciras /ʁa.kuʁ.si.ʁa/	raccourcira /ʁa.kuʁ.si.ʁa/	raccourcirons /ʁa.kuʁ.si.ʁɔ̃/	raccourcirez /ʁa.kuʁ.si.ʁe/	raccourciront /ʁa.kuʁ.si.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	raccourcirais /ʁa.kuʁ.si.ʁɛ/	raccourcirais /ʁa.kuʁ.si.ʁɛ/	raccourcirait /ʁa.kuʁ.si.ʁɛ/	raccourcirions /ʁa.kuʁ.si.ʁjɔ̃/	raccourciriez /ʁa.kuʁ.si.ʁje/	raccourciraient /ʁa.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	raccourcisse /ʁa.kuʁ.sis/	raccourcisses /ʁa.kuʁ.sis/	raccourcisse /ʁa.kuʁ.sis/	raccourcissions /ʁa.kuʁ.si.sjɔ̃/	raccourcissiez /ʁa.kuʁ.si.sje/	raccourcissent /ʁa.kuʁ.sis/
	imperfect2	raccourcisse /ʁa.kuʁ.sis/	raccourcisses /ʁa.kuʁ.sis/	raccourcît /ʁa.kuʁ.si/	raccourcissions /ʁa.kuʁ.si.sjɔ̃/	raccourcissiez /ʁa.kuʁ.si.sje/	raccourcissent /ʁa.kuʁ.sis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	raccourcis /ʁa.kuʁ.si/	—	raccourcissons /ʁa.kuʁ.si.sɔ̃/	raccourcissez /ʁa.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: 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

• à bras raccourcis
• raccourcissement

Related terms

• court

Further reading

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