rassir

French

Etymology

From rassis +‎ -ir.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁa.siʁ/

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Verb

rassir (defective)

1. (intransitive) to go stale

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-. This verb is conjugated only in the third person.

Conjugation of rassir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	rassir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	rassissant /ʁa.si.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		rassi /ʁa.si/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	—	—	rassit /ʁa.si/	—	—	rassissent /ʁa.sis/
	imperfect	—	—	rassissait /ʁa.si.sɛ/	—	—	rassissaient /ʁa.si.sɛ/
	past historic2	—	—	rassit /ʁa.si/	—	—	rassirent /ʁa.siʁ/
	future	—	—	rassira /ʁa.si.ʁa/	—	—	rassiront /ʁa.si.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	—	—	rassirait /ʁa.si.ʁɛ/	—	—	rassiraient /ʁa.si.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	—	—	rassisse /ʁa.sis/	—	—	rassissent /ʁa.sis/
	imperfect2	—	—	rassît /ʁa.si/	—	—	rassissent /ʁa.sis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	—	—	—	—	—
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

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