racornir

French

Pronunciation

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Verb

racornir

1. to harden

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 racornir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	racornir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	racornissant /ʁa.kɔʁ.ni.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		racorni /ʁa.kɔʁ.ni/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	racornis /ʁa.kɔʁ.ni/	racornis /ʁa.kɔʁ.ni/	racornit /ʁa.kɔʁ.ni/	racornissons /ʁa.kɔʁ.ni.sɔ̃/	racornissez /ʁa.kɔʁ.ni.se/	racornissent /ʁa.kɔʁ.nis/
	imperfect	racornissais /ʁa.kɔʁ.ni.sɛ/	racornissais /ʁa.kɔʁ.ni.sɛ/	racornissait /ʁa.kɔʁ.ni.sɛ/	racornissions /ʁa.kɔʁ.ni.sjɔ̃/	racornissiez /ʁa.kɔʁ.ni.sje/	racornissaient /ʁa.kɔʁ.ni.sɛ/
	past historic2	racornis /ʁa.kɔʁ.ni/	racornis /ʁa.kɔʁ.ni/	racornit /ʁa.kɔʁ.ni/	racornîmes /ʁa.kɔʁ.nim/	racornîtes /ʁa.kɔʁ.nit/	racornirent /ʁa.kɔʁ.niʁ/
	future	racornirai /ʁa.kɔʁ.ni.ʁe/	racorniras /ʁa.kɔʁ.ni.ʁa/	racornira /ʁa.kɔʁ.ni.ʁa/	racornirons /ʁa.kɔʁ.ni.ʁɔ̃/	racornirez /ʁa.kɔʁ.ni.ʁe/	racorniront /ʁa.kɔʁ.ni.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	racornirais /ʁa.kɔʁ.ni.ʁɛ/	racornirais /ʁa.kɔʁ.ni.ʁɛ/	racornirait /ʁa.kɔʁ.ni.ʁɛ/	racornirions /ʁa.kɔʁ.ni.ʁjɔ̃/	racorniriez /ʁa.kɔʁ.ni.ʁje/	racorniraient /ʁa.kɔʁ.ni.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	racornisse /ʁa.kɔʁ.nis/	racornisses /ʁa.kɔʁ.nis/	racornisse /ʁa.kɔʁ.nis/	racornissions /ʁa.kɔʁ.ni.sjɔ̃/	racornissiez /ʁa.kɔʁ.ni.sje/	racornissent /ʁa.kɔʁ.nis/
	imperfect2	racornisse /ʁa.kɔʁ.nis/	racornisses /ʁa.kɔʁ.nis/	racornît /ʁa.kɔʁ.ni/	racornissions /ʁa.kɔʁ.ni.sjɔ̃/	racornissiez /ʁa.kɔʁ.ni.sje/	racornissent /ʁa.kɔʁ.nis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	racornis /ʁa.kɔʁ.ni/	—	racornissons /ʁa.kɔʁ.ni.sɔ̃/	racornissez /ʁa.kɔʁ.ni.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

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