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refroidir
refroidir
French
Verb
refroidir
- to lower the temperature of; to cool
- (reflexive or intransitive) to become cooler; to lose heat; to cool down
- to become less active; to cool down, cool off
- (transitive) to strongly reduce or diminish something such as interest, zeal, etc.
- (slang) to ice, to murder
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 refroidir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | refroidir | avoir refroidi | |||||
| gerund | en refroidissant | en ayant refroidi | |||||
| present participle | refroidissant /ʁə.fʁwa.di.sɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | refroidi /ʁə.fʁwa.di/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | refroidis /ʁə.fʁwa.di/ |
refroidis /ʁə.fʁwa.di/ |
refroidit /ʁə.fʁwa.di/ |
refroidissons /ʁə.fʁwa.di.sɔ̃/ |
refroidissez /ʁə.fʁwa.di.se/ |
refroidissent /ʁə.fʁwa.dis/ |
| imperfect | refroidissais /ʁə.fʁwa.di.sɛ/ |
refroidissais /ʁə.fʁwa.di.sɛ/ |
refroidissait /ʁə.fʁwa.di.sɛ/ |
refroidissions /ʁə.fʁwa.di.sjɔ̃/ |
refroidissiez /ʁə.fʁwa.di.sje/ |
refroidissaient /ʁə.fʁwa.di.sɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | refroidis /ʁə.fʁwa.di/ |
refroidis /ʁə.fʁwa.di/ |
refroidit /ʁə.fʁwa.di/ |
refroidîmes /ʁə.fʁwa.dim/ |
refroidîtes /ʁə.fʁwa.dit/ |
refroidirent /ʁə.fʁwa.diʁ/ |
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| future | refroidirai /ʁə.fʁwa.di.ʁe/ |
refroidiras /ʁə.fʁwa.di.ʁa/ |
refroidira /ʁə.fʁwa.di.ʁa/ |
refroidirons /ʁə.fʁwa.di.ʁɔ̃/ |
refroidirez /ʁə.fʁwa.di.ʁe/ |
refroidiront /ʁə.fʁwa.di.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | refroidirais /ʁə.fʁwa.di.ʁɛ/ |
refroidirais /ʁə.fʁwa.di.ʁɛ/ |
refroidirait /ʁə.fʁwa.di.ʁɛ/ |
refroidirions /ʁə.fʁwa.di.ʁjɔ̃/ |
refroidiriez /ʁə.fʁwa.di.ʁje/ |
refroidiraient /ʁə.fʁwa.di.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 | refroidisse /ʁə.fʁwa.dis/ |
refroidisses /ʁə.fʁwa.dis/ |
refroidisse /ʁə.fʁwa.dis/ |
refroidissions /ʁə.fʁwa.di.sjɔ̃/ |
refroidissiez /ʁə.fʁwa.di.sje/ |
refroidissent /ʁə.fʁwa.dis/ |
| imperfect1 |
refroidisse /ʁə.fʁwa.dis/ |
refroidisses /ʁə.fʁwa.dis/ |
refroidît /ʁə.fʁwa.di/ |
refroidissions /ʁə.fʁwa.di.sjɔ̃/ |
refroidissiez /ʁə.fʁwa.di.sje/ |
refroidissent /ʁə.fʁwa.dis/ |
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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 | – | |
| — | refroidis /ʁə.fʁwa.di/ |
— | refroidissons /ʁə.fʁwa.di.sɔ̃/ |
refroidissez /ʁə.fʁwa.di.se/ |
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