rapetisser
French
Etymology
Inherited from Old French rapetichier.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʁap.ti.se/
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Verb
rapetisser
- to shrink or shorten
- 1857, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary […][1], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères; republished as Eleanor Marx, transl., Madame Bovary, 1886:
- En effet, ces femmes, accourant à la fois dans sa pensée, s'y gênaient les unes les autres et s'y rapetissaient, comme sous un même niveau d'amour qui les égalisait.
- In fact, these women, rushing at once into his thoughts, cramped each other and lessened, as reduced to a uniform level of love that equalised them all.
Conjugation
Conjugation of rapetisser (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | rapetisser | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | rapetissant /ʁap.ti.sɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | rapetissé /ʁap.ti.se/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | rapetisse /ʁap.tis/ |
rapetisses /ʁap.tis/ |
rapetisse /ʁap.tis/ |
rapetissons /ʁap.ti.sɔ̃/ |
rapetissez /ʁap.ti.se/ |
rapetissent /ʁap.tis/ |
| imperfect | rapetissais /ʁap.ti.sɛ/ |
rapetissais /ʁap.ti.sɛ/ |
rapetissait /ʁap.ti.sɛ/ |
rapetissions /ʁap.ti.sjɔ̃/ |
rapetissiez /ʁap.ti.sje/ |
rapetissaient /ʁap.ti.sɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | rapetissai /ʁap.ti.se/ |
rapetissas /ʁap.ti.sa/ |
rapetissa /ʁap.ti.sa/ |
rapetissâmes /ʁap.ti.sam/ |
rapetissâtes /ʁap.ti.sat/ |
rapetissèrent /ʁap.ti.sɛʁ/ | |
| future | rapetisserai /ʁap.ti.sʁe/ |
rapetisseras /ʁap.ti.sʁa/ |
rapetissera /ʁap.ti.sʁa/ |
rapetisserons /ʁap.ti.sʁɔ̃/ |
rapetisserez /ʁap.ti.sʁe/ |
rapetisseront /ʁap.ti.sʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | rapetisserais /ʁap.ti.sʁɛ/ |
rapetisserais /ʁap.ti.sʁɛ/ |
rapetisserait /ʁap.ti.sʁɛ/ |
rapetisserions /ʁap.ti.sə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
rapetisseriez /ʁap.ti.sə.ʁje/ |
rapetisseraient /ʁap.ti.sʁɛ/ | |
| (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 | rapetisse /ʁap.tis/ |
rapetisses /ʁap.tis/ |
rapetisse /ʁap.tis/ |
rapetissions /ʁap.ti.sjɔ̃/ |
rapetissiez /ʁap.ti.sje/ |
rapetissent /ʁap.tis/ |
| imperfect2 | rapetissasse /ʁap.ti.sas/ |
rapetissasses /ʁap.ti.sas/ |
rapetissât /ʁap.ti.sa/ |
rapetissassions /ʁap.ti.sa.sjɔ̃/ |
rapetissassiez /ʁap.ti.sa.sje/ |
rapetissassent /ʁap.ti.sas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | rapetisse /ʁap.tis/ |
— | rapetissons /ʁap.ti.sɔ̃/ |
rapetissez /ʁap.ti.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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Related terms
Further reading
- “rapetisser”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012