refroidir

French

Etymology

From re- ‎ froidir.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ʁə.fʁwa.diʁ/
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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)

infinitive	compound	avoir past participle
infinitive	simple	refroidir
present participle or gerund¹	simple	refroidissant /ʁə.fʁwa.di.sɑ̃/
present participle or gerund¹	compound	ayant past participle
past participle		refroidi /ʁə.fʁwa.di/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(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/
	past historic²	refroidis /ʁə.fʁwa.di/	refroidis /ʁə.fʁwa.di/	refroidit /ʁə.fʁwa.di/	refroidîmes /ʁə.fʁwa.dim/	refroidîtes /ʁə.fʁwa.dit/	refroidirent /ʁə.fʁwa.diʁ/
	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/
	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/
(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	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/
(simple tenses)	imperfect²	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/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir past participle
(compound tenses)	pluperfect²	imperfect subjunctive of avoir past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	~~nous~~	~~vous~~	–
simple		—	refroidis /ʁə.fʁwa.di/	—	refroidissons /ʁə.fʁwa.di.sɔ̃/	refroidissez /ʁə.fʁwa.di.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).