raidir

French

Etymology

From raide +‎ -ir.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁɛ.diʁ/ ~ /ʁe.diʁ/

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Verb

raidir

1. stiffen (to make stiff)

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 raidir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	raidir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	raidissant /ʁɛ.di.sɑ̃/ or /ʁe.di.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		raidi /ʁɛ.di/ or /ʁe.di/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	raidis /ʁɛ.di/ or /ʁe.di/	raidis /ʁɛ.di/ or /ʁe.di/	raidit /ʁɛ.di/ or /ʁe.di/	raidissons /ʁɛ.di.sɔ̃/ or /ʁe.di.sɔ̃/	raidissez /ʁɛ.di.se/ or /ʁe.di.se/	raidissent /ʁɛ.dis/ or /ʁe.dis/
	imperfect	raidissais /ʁɛ.di.sɛ/ or /ʁe.di.sɛ/	raidissais /ʁɛ.di.sɛ/ or /ʁe.di.sɛ/	raidissait /ʁɛ.di.sɛ/ or /ʁe.di.sɛ/	raidissions /ʁɛ.di.sjɔ̃/ or /ʁe.di.sjɔ̃/	raidissiez /ʁɛ.di.sje/ or /ʁe.di.sje/	raidissaient /ʁɛ.di.sɛ/ or /ʁe.di.sɛ/
	past historic2	raidis /ʁɛ.di/ or /ʁe.di/	raidis /ʁɛ.di/ or /ʁe.di/	raidit /ʁɛ.di/ or /ʁe.di/	raidîmes /ʁɛ.dim/ or /ʁe.dim/	raidîtes /ʁɛ.dit/ or /ʁe.dit/	raidirent /ʁɛ.diʁ/ or /ʁe.diʁ/
	future	raidirai /ʁɛ.di.ʁe/ or /ʁe.di.ʁe/	raidiras /ʁɛ.di.ʁa/ or /ʁe.di.ʁa/	raidira /ʁɛ.di.ʁa/ or /ʁe.di.ʁa/	raidirons /ʁɛ.di.ʁɔ̃/ or /ʁe.di.ʁɔ̃/	raidirez /ʁɛ.di.ʁe/ or /ʁe.di.ʁe/	raidiront /ʁɛ.di.ʁɔ̃/ or /ʁe.di.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	raidirais /ʁɛ.di.ʁɛ/ or /ʁe.di.ʁɛ/	raidirais /ʁɛ.di.ʁɛ/ or /ʁe.di.ʁɛ/	raidirait /ʁɛ.di.ʁɛ/ or /ʁe.di.ʁɛ/	raidirions /ʁɛ.di.ʁjɔ̃/ or /ʁe.di.ʁjɔ̃/	raidiriez /ʁɛ.di.ʁje/ or /ʁe.di.ʁje/	raidiraient /ʁɛ.di.ʁɛ/ or /ʁe.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	raidisse /ʁɛ.dis/ or /ʁe.dis/	raidisses /ʁɛ.dis/ or /ʁe.dis/	raidisse /ʁɛ.dis/ or /ʁe.dis/	raidissions /ʁɛ.di.sjɔ̃/ or /ʁe.di.sjɔ̃/	raidissiez /ʁɛ.di.sje/ or /ʁe.di.sje/	raidissent /ʁɛ.dis/ or /ʁe.dis/
	imperfect2	raidisse /ʁɛ.dis/ or /ʁe.dis/	raidisses /ʁɛ.dis/ or /ʁe.dis/	raidît /ʁɛ.di/ or /ʁe.di/	raidissions /ʁɛ.di.sjɔ̃/ or /ʁe.di.sjɔ̃/	raidissiez /ʁɛ.di.sje/ or /ʁe.di.sje/	raidissent /ʁɛ.dis/ or /ʁe.dis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	raidis /ʁɛ.di/ or /ʁe.di/	—	raidissons /ʁɛ.di.sɔ̃/ or /ʁe.di.sɔ̃/	raidissez /ʁɛ.di.se/ or /ʁe.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

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