radoucir
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]radoucir
- to sweeten
- (figuratively, by extension) to appease
Conjugation
[edit]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 radoucir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | radoucir | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | radoucissant /ʁa.du.si.sɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | radouci /ʁa.du.si/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | radoucis /ʁa.du.si/ |
radoucis /ʁa.du.si/ |
radoucit /ʁa.du.si/ |
radoucissons /ʁa.du.si.sɔ̃/ |
radoucissez /ʁa.du.si.se/ |
radoucissent /ʁa.du.sis/ |
imperfect | radoucissais /ʁa.du.si.sɛ/ |
radoucissais /ʁa.du.si.sɛ/ |
radoucissait /ʁa.du.si.sɛ/ |
radoucissions /ʁa.du.si.sjɔ̃/ |
radoucissiez /ʁa.du.si.sje/ |
radoucissaient /ʁa.du.si.sɛ/ | |
past historic2 | radoucis /ʁa.du.si/ |
radoucis /ʁa.du.si/ |
radoucit /ʁa.du.si/ |
radoucîmes /ʁa.du.sim/ |
radoucîtes /ʁa.du.sit/ |
radoucirent /ʁa.du.siʁ/ | |
future | radoucirai /ʁa.du.si.ʁe/ |
radouciras /ʁa.du.si.ʁa/ |
radoucira /ʁa.du.si.ʁa/ |
radoucirons /ʁa.du.si.ʁɔ̃/ |
radoucirez /ʁa.du.si.ʁe/ |
radouciront /ʁa.du.si.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | radoucirais /ʁa.du.si.ʁɛ/ |
radoucirais /ʁa.du.si.ʁɛ/ |
radoucirait /ʁa.du.si.ʁɛ/ |
radoucirions /ʁa.du.si.ʁjɔ̃/ |
radouciriez /ʁa.du.si.ʁje/ |
radouciraient /ʁa.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 | radoucisse /ʁa.du.sis/ |
radoucisses /ʁa.du.sis/ |
radoucisse /ʁa.du.sis/ |
radoucissions /ʁa.du.si.sjɔ̃/ |
radoucissiez /ʁa.du.si.sje/ |
radoucissent /ʁa.du.sis/ |
imperfect2 | radoucisse /ʁa.du.sis/ |
radoucisses /ʁa.du.sis/ |
radoucît /ʁa.du.si/ |
radoucissions /ʁa.du.si.sjɔ̃/ |
radoucissiez /ʁa.du.si.sje/ |
radoucissent /ʁa.du.sis/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | radoucis /ʁa.du.si/ |
— | radoucissons /ʁa.du.si.sɔ̃/ |
radoucissez /ʁa.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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). |
Further reading
[edit]- “radoucir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.