rougir
French
FWOTD – 1 December 2012
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʁu.ʒiʁ/
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Verb
rougir
- (intransitive) to redden, blush
- 1845, Alexandre Dumas, Le Comte de Monte-Cristo, page 52:
- — Le mari, le mari, dit Caderousse en riant, pas encore, mon capitaine ; essaye un peu de faire le mari, et tu verras comme tu seras reçu !
Mercédès rougit.- "Husband, husband," said Caderousse laughing, "not yet, my captain; just try to act as a husband, and you will see how you will be received!"
Mercedes blushed.
- "Husband, husband," said Caderousse laughing, "not yet, my captain; just try to act as a husband, and you will see how you will be received!"
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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 rougir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| present participle | rougissant /ʁu.ʒi.sɑ̃/ | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| past participle | rougi /ʁu.ʒi/ | ||||||
| infinitive | |||||||
| simple | rougir | ||||||
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| gerund1 | |||||||
| simple | rougissant /ʁu.ʒi.sɑ̃/ | ||||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | rougis /ʁu.ʒi/ |
rougis /ʁu.ʒi/ |
rougit /ʁu.ʒi/ |
rougissons /ʁu.ʒi.sɔ̃/ |
rougissez /ʁu.ʒi.se/ |
rougissent /ʁu.ʒis/ |
| imperfect | rougissais /ʁu.ʒi.sɛ/ |
rougissais /ʁu.ʒi.sɛ/ |
rougissait /ʁu.ʒi.sɛ/ |
rougissions /ʁu.ʒi.sjɔ̃/ |
rougissiez /ʁu.ʒi.sje/ |
rougissaient /ʁu.ʒi.sɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | rougis /ʁu.ʒi/ |
rougis /ʁu.ʒi/ |
rougit /ʁu.ʒi/ |
rougîmes /ʁu.ʒim/ |
rougîtes /ʁu.ʒit/ |
rougirent /ʁu.ʒiʁ/ | |
| future | rougirai /ʁu.ʒi.ʁe/ |
rougiras /ʁu.ʒi.ʁa/ |
rougira /ʁu.ʒi.ʁa/ |
rougirons /ʁu.ʒi.ʁɔ̃/ |
rougirez /ʁu.ʒi.ʁe/ |
rougiront /ʁu.ʒi.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | rougirais /ʁu.ʒi.ʁɛ/ |
rougirais /ʁu.ʒi.ʁɛ/ |
rougirait /ʁu.ʒi.ʁɛ/ |
rougirions /ʁu.ʒi.ʁjɔ̃/ |
rougiriez /ʁu.ʒi.ʁje/ |
rougiraient /ʁu.ʒi.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 | rougisse /ʁu.ʒis/ |
rougisses /ʁu.ʒis/ |
rougisse /ʁu.ʒis/ |
rougissions /ʁu.ʒi.sjɔ̃/ |
rougissiez /ʁu.ʒi.sje/ |
rougissent /ʁu.ʒis/ |
| imperfect2 | rougisse /ʁu.ʒis/ |
rougisses /ʁu.ʒis/ |
rougît /ʁu.ʒi/ |
rougissions /ʁu.ʒi.sjɔ̃/ |
rougissiez /ʁu.ʒi.sje/ |
rougissent /ʁu.ʒis/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | rougis /ʁu.ʒi/ |
— | rougissons /ʁu.ʒi.sɔ̃/ |
rougissez /ʁu.ʒi.se/ |
— | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 Only usable with preposition en. | |||||||
| 2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Further reading
- “rougir” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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