candir
Appearance
French
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Verb
[edit]candir
- (intransitive) to crystallize
- (transitive) to cover with crystallized sugar
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 candir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | candir | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | candissant /kɑ̃.di.sɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | candi /kɑ̃.di/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | candis /kɑ̃.di/ |
candis /kɑ̃.di/ |
candit /kɑ̃.di/ |
candissons /kɑ̃.di.sɔ̃/ |
candissez /kɑ̃.di.se/ |
candissent /kɑ̃.dis/ |
imperfect | candissais /kɑ̃.di.sɛ/ |
candissais /kɑ̃.di.sɛ/ |
candissait /kɑ̃.di.sɛ/ |
candissions /kɑ̃.di.sjɔ̃/ |
candissiez /kɑ̃.di.sje/ |
candissaient /kɑ̃.di.sɛ/ | |
past historic2 | candis /kɑ̃.di/ |
candis /kɑ̃.di/ |
candit /kɑ̃.di/ |
candîmes /kɑ̃.dim/ |
candîtes /kɑ̃.dit/ |
candirent /kɑ̃.diʁ/ | |
future | candirai /kɑ̃.di.ʁe/ |
candiras /kɑ̃.di.ʁa/ |
candira /kɑ̃.di.ʁa/ |
candirons /kɑ̃.di.ʁɔ̃/ |
candirez /kɑ̃.di.ʁe/ |
candiront /kɑ̃.di.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | candirais /kɑ̃.di.ʁɛ/ |
candirais /kɑ̃.di.ʁɛ/ |
candirait /kɑ̃.di.ʁɛ/ |
candirions /kɑ̃.di.ʁjɔ̃/ |
candiriez /kɑ̃.di.ʁje/ |
candiraient /kɑ̃.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 | candisse /kɑ̃.dis/ |
candisses /kɑ̃.dis/ |
candisse /kɑ̃.dis/ |
candissions /kɑ̃.di.sjɔ̃/ |
candissiez /kɑ̃.di.sje/ |
candissent /kɑ̃.dis/ |
imperfect2 | candisse /kɑ̃.dis/ |
candisses /kɑ̃.dis/ |
candît /kɑ̃.di/ |
candissions /kɑ̃.di.sjɔ̃/ |
candissiez /kɑ̃.di.sje/ |
candissent /kɑ̃.dis/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | candis /kɑ̃.di/ |
— | candissons /kɑ̃.di.sɔ̃/ |
candissez /kɑ̃.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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). |
Further reading
[edit]- “candir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.