ragaillardir

French

Etymology

From ra- +‎ gaillard +‎ -ir.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁa.ɡa.jaʁ.diʁ/

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Verb

ragaillardir

1. (transitive) to cheer up
   • 1936, “C'est la guinguette”, in La rue de notre amour, performed by Damia:

     Le bourgogne est une merveille / Il chauffe et ragaillardit / C’est du soleil en bouteille / Même quand on en boit la nuit

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

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 ragaillardir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	ragaillardir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	ragaillardissant /ʁa.ɡa.jaʁ.di.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		ragaillardi /ʁa.ɡa.jaʁ.di/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	ragaillardis /ʁa.ɡa.jaʁ.di/	ragaillardis /ʁa.ɡa.jaʁ.di/	ragaillardit /ʁa.ɡa.jaʁ.di/	ragaillardissons /ʁa.ɡa.jaʁ.di.sɔ̃/	ragaillardissez /ʁa.ɡa.jaʁ.di.se/	ragaillardissent /ʁa.ɡa.jaʁ.dis/
	imperfect	ragaillardissais /ʁa.ɡa.jaʁ.di.sɛ/	ragaillardissais /ʁa.ɡa.jaʁ.di.sɛ/	ragaillardissait /ʁa.ɡa.jaʁ.di.sɛ/	ragaillardissions /ʁa.ɡa.jaʁ.di.sjɔ̃/	ragaillardissiez /ʁa.ɡa.jaʁ.di.sje/	ragaillardissaient /ʁa.ɡa.jaʁ.di.sɛ/
	past historic2	ragaillardis /ʁa.ɡa.jaʁ.di/	ragaillardis /ʁa.ɡa.jaʁ.di/	ragaillardit /ʁa.ɡa.jaʁ.di/	ragaillardîmes /ʁa.ɡa.jaʁ.dim/	ragaillardîtes /ʁa.ɡa.jaʁ.dit/	ragaillardirent /ʁa.ɡa.jaʁ.diʁ/
	future	ragaillardirai /ʁa.ɡa.jaʁ.di.ʁe/	ragaillardiras /ʁa.ɡa.jaʁ.di.ʁa/	ragaillardira /ʁa.ɡa.jaʁ.di.ʁa/	ragaillardirons /ʁa.ɡa.jaʁ.di.ʁɔ̃/	ragaillardirez /ʁa.ɡa.jaʁ.di.ʁe/	ragaillardiront /ʁa.ɡa.jaʁ.di.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	ragaillardirais /ʁa.ɡa.jaʁ.di.ʁɛ/	ragaillardirais /ʁa.ɡa.jaʁ.di.ʁɛ/	ragaillardirait /ʁa.ɡa.jaʁ.di.ʁɛ/	ragaillardirions /ʁa.ɡa.jaʁ.di.ʁjɔ̃/	ragaillardiriez /ʁa.ɡa.jaʁ.di.ʁje/	ragaillardiraient /ʁa.ɡa.jaʁ.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	ragaillardisse /ʁa.ɡa.jaʁ.dis/	ragaillardisses /ʁa.ɡa.jaʁ.dis/	ragaillardisse /ʁa.ɡa.jaʁ.dis/	ragaillardissions /ʁa.ɡa.jaʁ.di.sjɔ̃/	ragaillardissiez /ʁa.ɡa.jaʁ.di.sje/	ragaillardissent /ʁa.ɡa.jaʁ.dis/
	imperfect2	ragaillardisse /ʁa.ɡa.jaʁ.dis/	ragaillardisses /ʁa.ɡa.jaʁ.dis/	ragaillardît /ʁa.ɡa.jaʁ.di/	ragaillardissions /ʁa.ɡa.jaʁ.di.sjɔ̃/	ragaillardissiez /ʁa.ɡa.jaʁ.di.sje/	ragaillardissent /ʁa.ɡa.jaʁ.dis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	ragaillardis /ʁa.ɡa.jaʁ.di/	—	ragaillardissons /ʁa.ɡa.jaʁ.di.sɔ̃/	ragaillardissez /ʁa.ɡa.jaʁ.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: 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

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