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ralentir
ralentir
French
Verb
ralentir
- (transitive, intransitive) to slow down
- to abate
- 1837, Louis Viardot, L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche, translation of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Volume I, Chapter XXXIII:
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... Lothaire commença à ralentir peu à peu, par réflexion, ses allées et venues dans la maison de son ami.
- ... Lothario started to abate little by little, by reflection, his goings and comings to the house of his friend.
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... Lothaire commença à ralentir peu à peu, par réflexion, ses allées et venues dans la maison de son ami.
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Related terms
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 ralentir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | ralentir | avoir ralenti | |||||
| gerund | en ralentissant | en ayant ralenti | |||||
| present participle | ralentissant /ʁa.lɑ̃.ti.sɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | ralenti /ʁa.lɑ̃.ti/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | ralentis /ʁa.lɑ̃.ti/ |
ralentis /ʁa.lɑ̃.ti/ |
ralentit /ʁa.lɑ̃.ti/ |
ralentissons /ʁa.lɑ̃.ti.sɔ̃/ |
ralentissez /ʁa.lɑ̃.ti.se/ |
ralentissent /ʁa.lɑ̃.tis/ |
| imperfect | ralentissais /ʁa.lɑ̃.ti.sɛ/ |
ralentissais /ʁa.lɑ̃.ti.sɛ/ |
ralentissait /ʁa.lɑ̃.ti.sɛ/ |
ralentissions /ʁa.lɑ̃.ti.sjɔ̃/ |
ralentissiez /ʁa.lɑ̃.ti.sje/ |
ralentissaient /ʁa.lɑ̃.ti.sɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | ralentis /ʁa.lɑ̃.ti/ |
ralentis /ʁa.lɑ̃.ti/ |
ralentit /ʁa.lɑ̃.ti/ |
ralentîmes /ʁa.lɑ̃.tim/ |
ralentîtes /ʁa.lɑ̃.tit/ |
ralentirent /ʁa.lɑ̃.tiʁ/ |
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| future | ralentirai /ʁa.lɑ̃.ti.ʁe/ |
ralentiras /ʁa.lɑ̃.ti.ʁa/ |
ralentira /ʁa.lɑ̃.ti.ʁa/ |
ralentirons /ʁa.lɑ̃.ti.ʁɔ̃/ |
ralentirez /ʁa.lɑ̃.ti.ʁe/ |
ralentiront /ʁa.lɑ̃.ti.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | ralentirais /ʁa.lɑ̃.ti.ʁɛ/ |
ralentirais /ʁa.lɑ̃.ti.ʁɛ/ |
ralentirait /ʁa.lɑ̃.ti.ʁɛ/ |
ralentirions /ʁa.lɑ̃.ti.ʁjɔ̃/ |
ralentiriez /ʁa.lɑ̃.ti.ʁje/ |
ralentiraient /ʁa.lɑ̃.ti.ʁɛ/ |
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| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior1 | Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | ralentisse /ʁa.lɑ̃.tis/ |
ralentisses /ʁa.lɑ̃.tis/ |
ralentisse /ʁa.lɑ̃.tis/ |
ralentissions /ʁa.lɑ̃.ti.sjɔ̃/ |
ralentissiez /ʁa.lɑ̃.ti.sje/ |
ralentissent /ʁa.lɑ̃.tis/ |
| imperfect1 |
ralentisse /ʁa.lɑ̃.tis/ |
ralentisses /ʁa.lɑ̃.tis/ |
ralentît /ʁa.lɑ̃.ti/ |
ralentissions /ʁa.lɑ̃.ti.sjɔ̃/ |
ralentissiez /ʁa.lɑ̃.ti.sje/ |
ralentissent /ʁa.lɑ̃.tis/ |
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| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | ralentis /ʁa.lɑ̃.ti/ |
— | ralentissons /ʁa.lɑ̃.ti.sɔ̃/ |
ralentissez /ʁa.lɑ̃.ti.se/ |
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