renchérir

French

Etymology

From re- +‎ enchérir.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁiʁ/

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Verb

renchérir

1. (intransitive) to go further (in speech, actions etc.)
2. (intransitive) to go one better
3. (transitive) to increase; to put up the price of

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 renchérir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	renchérir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	renchérissant /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		renchéri /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	renchéris /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi/	renchéris /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi/	renchérit /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi/	renchérissons /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.sɔ̃/	renchérissez /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.se/	renchérissent /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁis/
	imperfect	renchérissais /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.sɛ/	renchérissais /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.sɛ/	renchérissait /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.sɛ/	renchérissions /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.sjɔ̃/	renchérissiez /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.sje/	renchérissaient /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.sɛ/
	past historic2	renchéris /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi/	renchéris /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi/	renchérit /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi/	renchérîmes /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁim/	renchérîtes /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁit/	renchérirent /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁiʁ/
	future	renchérirai /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.ʁe/	renchériras /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.ʁa/	renchérira /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.ʁa/	renchérirons /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.ʁɔ̃/	renchérirez /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.ʁe/	renchériront /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	renchérirais /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.ʁɛ/	renchérirais /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.ʁɛ/	renchérirait /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.ʁɛ/	renchéririons /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.ʁjɔ̃/	renchéririez /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.ʁje/	renchériraient /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.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	renchérisse /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁis/	renchérisses /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁis/	renchérisse /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁis/	renchérissions /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.sjɔ̃/	renchérissiez /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.sje/	renchérissent /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁis/
	imperfect2	renchérisse /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁis/	renchérisses /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁis/	renchérît /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi/	renchérissions /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.sjɔ̃/	renchérissiez /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.sje/	renchérissent /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	renchéris /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi/	—	renchérissons /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.sɔ̃/	renchérissez /ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.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

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