rasséréner

French

Etymology

From r- +‎ a- +‎ serein +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁa.se.ʁe.ne/

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Verb

rasséréner

1. (rare, literary) to reassure

   Synonym: rassurer

2. (rare, literary) to calm down

   Synonym: apaiser

Conjugation

This verb is conjugated like céder. It is a regular -er verb, except that its last stem vowel alternates between /e/ (written 'é') and /ɛ/ (written 'è'), with the latter being used before mute 'e'. One special case is the future stem, used in the future and the conditional. Before 1990, the future stem of such verbs was written rasséréner-, reflecting the historic pronunciation /e/. In 1990, the French Academy recommended that it be written rassérèner-, reflecting the now common pronunciation /ɛ/, thereby making this distinction consistent throughout the conjugation (and also matching in this regard the conjugations of verbs like lever and jeter). Both spellings are in use today, and both are therefore given here.

Conjugation of rasséréner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	rasséréner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	rassérénant /ʁa.se.ʁe.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		rasséréné /ʁa.se.ʁe.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	rassérène /ʁa.se.ʁɛn/	rassérènes /ʁa.se.ʁɛn/	rassérène /ʁa.se.ʁɛn/	rassérénons /ʁa.se.ʁe.nɔ̃/	rassérénez /ʁa.se.ʁe.ne/	rassérènent /ʁa.se.ʁɛn/
	imperfect	rassérénais /ʁa.se.ʁe.nɛ/	rassérénais /ʁa.se.ʁe.nɛ/	rassérénait /ʁa.se.ʁe.nɛ/	rassérénions /ʁa.se.ʁe.njɔ̃/	rasséréniez /ʁa.se.ʁe.nje/	rassérénaient /ʁa.se.ʁe.nɛ/
	past historic2	rassérénai /ʁa.se.ʁe.ne/	rassérénas /ʁa.se.ʁe.na/	rasséréna /ʁa.se.ʁe.na/	rassérénâmes /ʁa.se.ʁe.nam/	rassérénâtes /ʁa.se.ʁe.nat/	rassérénèrent /ʁa.se.ʁe.nɛʁ/
	future	rassérènerai or rassérénerai /ʁa.se.ʁɛn.ʁe/	rassérèneras or rasséréneras /ʁa.se.ʁɛn.ʁa/	rassérènera or rassérénera /ʁa.se.ʁɛn.ʁa/	rassérènerons or rassérénerons /ʁa.se.ʁɛn.ʁɔ̃/	rassérènerez or rassérénerez /ʁa.se.ʁɛn.ʁe/	rassérèneront or rasséréneront /ʁa.se.ʁɛn.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	rassérènerais or rassérénerais /ʁa.se.ʁɛn.ʁɛ/	rassérènerais or rassérénerais /ʁa.se.ʁɛn.ʁɛ/	rassérènerait or rassérénerait /ʁa.se.ʁɛn.ʁɛ/	rassérènerions or rassérénerions /ʁa.se.ʁɛ.nə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /ʁa.se.ʁe.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	rassérèneriez or rasséréneriez /ʁa.se.ʁɛ.nə.ʁje/ or /ʁa.se.ʁe.nə.ʁje/	rassérèneraient or rasséréneraient /ʁa.se.ʁɛn.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	rassérène /ʁa.se.ʁɛn/	rassérènes /ʁa.se.ʁɛn/	rassérène /ʁa.se.ʁɛn/	rassérénions /ʁa.se.ʁe.njɔ̃/	rasséréniez /ʁa.se.ʁe.nje/	rassérènent /ʁa.se.ʁɛn/
	imperfect2	rassérénasse /ʁa.se.ʁe.nas/	rassérénasses /ʁa.se.ʁe.nas/	rassérénât /ʁa.se.ʁe.na/	rassérénassions /ʁa.se.ʁe.na.sjɔ̃/	rassérénassiez /ʁa.se.ʁe.na.sje/	rassérénassent /ʁa.se.ʁe.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	rassérène /ʁa.se.ʁɛn/	—	rassérénons /ʁa.se.ʁe.nɔ̃/	rassérénez /ʁa.se.ʁe.ne/	—
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

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