raffermir

French

Etymology

From re- +‎ affermir.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁa.fɛʁ.miʁ/

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• Rhymes: -iʁ

Verb

raffermir

1. (transitive) to strengthen

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 raffermir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	raffermir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	raffermissant /ʁa.fɛʁ.mi.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		raffermi /ʁa.fɛʁ.mi/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	raffermis /ʁa.fɛʁ.mi/	raffermis /ʁa.fɛʁ.mi/	raffermit /ʁa.fɛʁ.mi/	raffermissons /ʁa.fɛʁ.mi.sɔ̃/	raffermissez /ʁa.fɛʁ.mi.se/	raffermissent /ʁa.fɛʁ.mis/
	imperfect	raffermissais /ʁa.fɛʁ.mi.sɛ/	raffermissais /ʁa.fɛʁ.mi.sɛ/	raffermissait /ʁa.fɛʁ.mi.sɛ/	raffermissions /ʁa.fɛʁ.mi.sjɔ̃/	raffermissiez /ʁa.fɛʁ.mi.sje/	raffermissaient /ʁa.fɛʁ.mi.sɛ/
	past historic2	raffermis /ʁa.fɛʁ.mi/	raffermis /ʁa.fɛʁ.mi/	raffermit /ʁa.fɛʁ.mi/	raffermîmes /ʁa.fɛʁ.mim/	raffermîtes /ʁa.fɛʁ.mit/	raffermirent /ʁa.fɛʁ.miʁ/
	future	raffermirai /ʁa.fɛʁ.mi.ʁe/	raffermiras /ʁa.fɛʁ.mi.ʁa/	raffermira /ʁa.fɛʁ.mi.ʁa/	raffermirons /ʁa.fɛʁ.mi.ʁɔ̃/	raffermirez /ʁa.fɛʁ.mi.ʁe/	raffermiront /ʁa.fɛʁ.mi.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	raffermirais /ʁa.fɛʁ.mi.ʁɛ/	raffermirais /ʁa.fɛʁ.mi.ʁɛ/	raffermirait /ʁa.fɛʁ.mi.ʁɛ/	raffermirions /ʁa.fɛʁ.mi.ʁjɔ̃/	raffermiriez /ʁa.fɛʁ.mi.ʁje/	raffermiraient /ʁa.fɛʁ.mi.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	raffermisse /ʁa.fɛʁ.mis/	raffermisses /ʁa.fɛʁ.mis/	raffermisse /ʁa.fɛʁ.mis/	raffermissions /ʁa.fɛʁ.mi.sjɔ̃/	raffermissiez /ʁa.fɛʁ.mi.sje/	raffermissent /ʁa.fɛʁ.mis/
	imperfect2	raffermisse /ʁa.fɛʁ.mis/	raffermisses /ʁa.fɛʁ.mis/	raffermît /ʁa.fɛʁ.mi/	raffermissions /ʁa.fɛʁ.mi.sjɔ̃/	raffermissiez /ʁa.fɛʁ.mi.sje/	raffermissent /ʁa.fɛʁ.mis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	raffermis /ʁa.fɛʁ.mi/	—	raffermissons /ʁa.fɛʁ.mi.sɔ̃/	raffermissez /ʁa.fɛʁ.mi.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

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