rafraichir

See also: rafraîchir

French

Verb

rafraichir

1. Alternative form of rafraîchir

Usage notes

This spelling was a product of the 1990 French spelling reforms.

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 rafraichir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	rafraichir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	rafraichissant /ʁa.fʁɛ.ʃi.sɑ̃/ or /ʁa.fʁe.ʃi.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		rafraichi /ʁa.fʁɛ.ʃi/ or /ʁa.fʁe.ʃi/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	rafraichis /ʁa.fʁɛ.ʃi/ or /ʁa.fʁe.ʃi/	rafraichis /ʁa.fʁɛ.ʃi/ or /ʁa.fʁe.ʃi/	rafraichit /ʁa.fʁɛ.ʃi/ or /ʁa.fʁe.ʃi/	rafraichissons /ʁa.fʁɛ.ʃi.sɔ̃/ or /ʁa.fʁe.ʃi.sɔ̃/	rafraichissez /ʁa.fʁɛ.ʃi.se/ or /ʁa.fʁe.ʃi.se/	rafraichissent /ʁa.fʁɛ.ʃis/ or /ʁa.fʁe.ʃis/
	imperfect	rafraichissais /ʁa.fʁɛ.ʃi.sɛ/ or /ʁa.fʁe.ʃi.sɛ/	rafraichissais /ʁa.fʁɛ.ʃi.sɛ/ or /ʁa.fʁe.ʃi.sɛ/	rafraichissait /ʁa.fʁɛ.ʃi.sɛ/ or /ʁa.fʁe.ʃi.sɛ/	rafraichissions /ʁa.fʁɛ.ʃi.sjɔ̃/ or /ʁa.fʁe.ʃi.sjɔ̃/	rafraichissiez /ʁa.fʁɛ.ʃi.sje/ or /ʁa.fʁe.ʃi.sje/	rafraichissaient /ʁa.fʁɛ.ʃi.sɛ/ or /ʁa.fʁe.ʃi.sɛ/
	past historic2	rafraichis /ʁa.fʁɛ.ʃi/ or /ʁa.fʁe.ʃi/	rafraichis /ʁa.fʁɛ.ʃi/ or /ʁa.fʁe.ʃi/	rafraichit /ʁa.fʁɛ.ʃi/ or /ʁa.fʁe.ʃi/	rafraichîmes /ʁa.fʁɛ.ʃim/ or /ʁa.fʁe.ʃim/	rafraichîtes /ʁa.fʁɛ.ʃit/ or /ʁa.fʁe.ʃit/	rafraichirent /ʁa.fʁɛ.ʃiʁ/ or /ʁa.fʁe.ʃiʁ/
	future	rafraichirai /ʁa.fʁɛ.ʃi.ʁe/ or /ʁa.fʁe.ʃi.ʁe/	rafraichiras /ʁa.fʁɛ.ʃi.ʁa/ or /ʁa.fʁe.ʃi.ʁa/	rafraichira /ʁa.fʁɛ.ʃi.ʁa/ or /ʁa.fʁe.ʃi.ʁa/	rafraichirons /ʁa.fʁɛ.ʃi.ʁɔ̃/ or /ʁa.fʁe.ʃi.ʁɔ̃/	rafraichirez /ʁa.fʁɛ.ʃi.ʁe/ or /ʁa.fʁe.ʃi.ʁe/	rafraichiront /ʁa.fʁɛ.ʃi.ʁɔ̃/ or /ʁa.fʁe.ʃi.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	rafraichirais /ʁa.fʁɛ.ʃi.ʁɛ/ or /ʁa.fʁe.ʃi.ʁɛ/	rafraichirais /ʁa.fʁɛ.ʃi.ʁɛ/ or /ʁa.fʁe.ʃi.ʁɛ/	rafraichirait /ʁa.fʁɛ.ʃi.ʁɛ/ or /ʁa.fʁe.ʃi.ʁɛ/	rafraichirions /ʁa.fʁɛ.ʃi.ʁjɔ̃/ or /ʁa.fʁe.ʃi.ʁjɔ̃/	rafraichiriez /ʁa.fʁɛ.ʃi.ʁje/ or /ʁa.fʁe.ʃi.ʁje/	rafraichiraient /ʁa.fʁɛ.ʃi.ʁɛ/ or /ʁa.fʁe.ʃi.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	rafraichisse /ʁa.fʁɛ.ʃis/ or /ʁa.fʁe.ʃis/	rafraichisses /ʁa.fʁɛ.ʃis/ or /ʁa.fʁe.ʃis/	rafraichisse /ʁa.fʁɛ.ʃis/ or /ʁa.fʁe.ʃis/	rafraichissions /ʁa.fʁɛ.ʃi.sjɔ̃/ or /ʁa.fʁe.ʃi.sjɔ̃/	rafraichissiez /ʁa.fʁɛ.ʃi.sje/ or /ʁa.fʁe.ʃi.sje/	rafraichissent /ʁa.fʁɛ.ʃis/ or /ʁa.fʁe.ʃis/
	imperfect2	rafraichisse /ʁa.fʁɛ.ʃis/ or /ʁa.fʁe.ʃis/	rafraichisses /ʁa.fʁɛ.ʃis/ or /ʁa.fʁe.ʃis/	rafraichît /ʁa.fʁɛ.ʃi/ or /ʁa.fʁe.ʃi/	rafraichissions /ʁa.fʁɛ.ʃi.sjɔ̃/ or /ʁa.fʁe.ʃi.sjɔ̃/	rafraichissiez /ʁa.fʁɛ.ʃi.sje/ or /ʁa.fʁe.ʃi.sje/	rafraichissent /ʁa.fʁɛ.ʃis/ or /ʁa.fʁe.ʃis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	rafraichis /ʁa.fʁɛ.ʃi/ or /ʁa.fʁe.ʃi/	—	rafraichissons /ʁa.fʁɛ.ʃi.sɔ̃/ or /ʁa.fʁe.ʃi.sɔ̃/	rafraichissez /ʁa.fʁɛ.ʃi.se/ or /ʁa.fʁe.ʃi.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

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