ratiociner

French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin ratiōcinor.

Pronunciation

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Verb

ratiociner

1. to deftly reason

Conjugation

Conjugation of ratiociner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	ratiociner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	ratiocinant /ʁa.tjɔ.si.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		ratiociné /ʁa.tjɔ.si.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	ratiocine /ʁa.tjɔ.sin/	ratiocines /ʁa.tjɔ.sin/	ratiocine /ʁa.tjɔ.sin/	ratiocinons /ʁa.tjɔ.si.nɔ̃/	ratiocinez /ʁa.tjɔ.si.ne/	ratiocinent /ʁa.tjɔ.sin/
	imperfect	ratiocinais /ʁa.tjɔ.si.nɛ/	ratiocinais /ʁa.tjɔ.si.nɛ/	ratiocinait /ʁa.tjɔ.si.nɛ/	ratiocinions /ʁa.tjɔ.si.njɔ̃/	ratiociniez /ʁa.tjɔ.si.nje/	ratiocinaient /ʁa.tjɔ.si.nɛ/
	past historic2	ratiocinai /ʁa.tjɔ.si.ne/	ratiocinas /ʁa.tjɔ.si.na/	ratiocina /ʁa.tjɔ.si.na/	ratiocinâmes /ʁa.tjɔ.si.nam/	ratiocinâtes /ʁa.tjɔ.si.nat/	ratiocinèrent /ʁa.tjɔ.si.nɛʁ/
	future	ratiocinerai /ʁa.tjɔ.sin.ʁe/	ratiocineras /ʁa.tjɔ.sin.ʁa/	ratiocinera /ʁa.tjɔ.sin.ʁa/	ratiocinerons /ʁa.tjɔ.sin.ʁɔ̃/	ratiocinerez /ʁa.tjɔ.sin.ʁe/	ratiocineront /ʁa.tjɔ.sin.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	ratiocinerais /ʁa.tjɔ.sin.ʁɛ/	ratiocinerais /ʁa.tjɔ.sin.ʁɛ/	ratiocinerait /ʁa.tjɔ.sin.ʁɛ/	ratiocinerions /ʁa.tjɔ.si.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	ratiocineriez /ʁa.tjɔ.si.nə.ʁje/	ratiocineraient /ʁa.tjɔ.sin.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	ratiocine /ʁa.tjɔ.sin/	ratiocines /ʁa.tjɔ.sin/	ratiocine /ʁa.tjɔ.sin/	ratiocinions /ʁa.tjɔ.si.njɔ̃/	ratiociniez /ʁa.tjɔ.si.nje/	ratiocinent /ʁa.tjɔ.sin/
	imperfect2	ratiocinasse /ʁa.tjɔ.si.nas/	ratiocinasses /ʁa.tjɔ.si.nas/	ratiocinât /ʁa.tjɔ.si.na/	ratiocinassions /ʁa.tjɔ.si.na.sjɔ̃/	ratiocinassiez /ʁa.tjɔ.si.na.sje/	ratiocinassent /ʁa.tjɔ.si.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	ratiocine /ʁa.tjɔ.sin/	—	ratiocinons /ʁa.tjɔ.si.nɔ̃/	ratiocinez /ʁa.tjɔ.si.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

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

Latin

Verb

ratiōciner

1. first-person singular present active subjunctive of ratiōcinor