rancir

French

Etymology

From rance +‎ -ir.

Pronunciation

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Verb

rancir

1. (intransitive) to go rancid

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 rancir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	rancir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	rancissant /ʁɑ̃.si.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		ranci /ʁɑ̃.si/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	rancis /ʁɑ̃.si/	rancis /ʁɑ̃.si/	rancit /ʁɑ̃.si/	rancissons /ʁɑ̃.si.sɔ̃/	rancissez /ʁɑ̃.si.se/	rancissent /ʁɑ̃.sis/
	imperfect	rancissais /ʁɑ̃.si.sɛ/	rancissais /ʁɑ̃.si.sɛ/	rancissait /ʁɑ̃.si.sɛ/	rancissions /ʁɑ̃.si.sjɔ̃/	rancissiez /ʁɑ̃.si.sje/	rancissaient /ʁɑ̃.si.sɛ/
	past historic2	rancis /ʁɑ̃.si/	rancis /ʁɑ̃.si/	rancit /ʁɑ̃.si/	rancîmes /ʁɑ̃.sim/	rancîtes /ʁɑ̃.sit/	rancirent /ʁɑ̃.siʁ/
	future	rancirai /ʁɑ̃.si.ʁe/	ranciras /ʁɑ̃.si.ʁa/	rancira /ʁɑ̃.si.ʁa/	rancirons /ʁɑ̃.si.ʁɔ̃/	rancirez /ʁɑ̃.si.ʁe/	ranciront /ʁɑ̃.si.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	rancirais /ʁɑ̃.si.ʁɛ/	rancirais /ʁɑ̃.si.ʁɛ/	rancirait /ʁɑ̃.si.ʁɛ/	rancirions /ʁɑ̃.si.ʁjɔ̃/	ranciriez /ʁɑ̃.si.ʁje/	ranciraient /ʁɑ̃.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	rancisse /ʁɑ̃.sis/	rancisses /ʁɑ̃.sis/	rancisse /ʁɑ̃.sis/	rancissions /ʁɑ̃.si.sjɔ̃/	rancissiez /ʁɑ̃.si.sje/	rancissent /ʁɑ̃.sis/
	imperfect2	rancisse /ʁɑ̃.sis/	rancisses /ʁɑ̃.sis/	rancît /ʁɑ̃.si/	rancissions /ʁɑ̃.si.sjɔ̃/	rancissiez /ʁɑ̃.si.sje/	rancissent /ʁɑ̃.sis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	rancis /ʁɑ̃.si/	—	rancissons /ʁɑ̃.si.sɔ̃/	rancissez /ʁɑ̃.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: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Derived terms

• rancissement
• rancissure

Further reading

• “rancir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.