refroidir

French

Etymology

From re- +‎ froidir.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁə.fʁwa.diʁ/

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Verb

refroidir

1. to lower the temperature of; to cool
2. (reflexive or intransitive) to become cooler; to lose heat; to cool down
3. to become less active; to cool down, cool off
4. (transitive) to strongly reduce or diminish something such as interest, zeal, etc.
5. (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	simple	refroidir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	refroidissant /ʁə.fʁwa.di.sɑ̃/
	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/
	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
	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).

Further reading

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