mincir
French
Pronunciation
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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 mincir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | mincir | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | mincissant /mɛ̃.si.sɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | minci /mɛ̃.si/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | mincis /mɛ̃.si/ |
mincis /mɛ̃.si/ |
mincit /mɛ̃.si/ |
mincissons /mɛ̃.si.sɔ̃/ |
mincissez /mɛ̃.si.se/ |
mincissent /mɛ̃.sis/ |
| imperfect | mincissais /mɛ̃.si.sɛ/ |
mincissais /mɛ̃.si.sɛ/ |
mincissait /mɛ̃.si.sɛ/ |
mincissions /mɛ̃.si.sjɔ̃/ |
mincissiez /mɛ̃.si.sje/ |
mincissaient /mɛ̃.si.sɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | mincis /mɛ̃.si/ |
mincis /mɛ̃.si/ |
mincit /mɛ̃.si/ |
mincîmes /mɛ̃.sim/ |
mincîtes /mɛ̃.sit/ |
mincirent /mɛ̃.siʁ/ | |
| future | mincirai /mɛ̃.si.ʁe/ |
minciras /mɛ̃.si.ʁa/ |
mincira /mɛ̃.si.ʁa/ |
mincirons /mɛ̃.si.ʁɔ̃/ |
mincirez /mɛ̃.si.ʁe/ |
minciront /mɛ̃.si.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | mincirais /mɛ̃.si.ʁɛ/ |
mincirais /mɛ̃.si.ʁɛ/ |
mincirait /mɛ̃.si.ʁɛ/ |
mincirions /mɛ̃.si.ʁjɔ̃/ |
minciriez /mɛ̃.si.ʁje/ |
minciraient /mɛ̃.si.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 | mincisse /mɛ̃.sis/ |
mincisses /mɛ̃.sis/ |
mincisse /mɛ̃.sis/ |
mincissions /mɛ̃.si.sjɔ̃/ |
mincissiez /mɛ̃.si.sje/ |
mincissent /mɛ̃.sis/ |
| imperfect2 | mincisse /mɛ̃.sis/ |
mincisses /mɛ̃.sis/ |
mincît /mɛ̃.si/ |
mincissions /mɛ̃.si.sjɔ̃/ |
mincissiez /mɛ̃.si.sje/ |
mincissent /mɛ̃.sis/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | mincis /mɛ̃.si/ |
— | mincissons /mɛ̃.si.sɔ̃/ |
mincissez /mɛ̃.si.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). | |||||||
Further reading
- “mincir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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