mincir

French

Etymology

From mince +‎ -ir.

Pronunciation

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Verb

mincir

1. to make thinner or slimmer

   Synonyms: maigrir, amincir

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		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
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: 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).

Further reading

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