rougir

French

FWOTD – 1 December 2012

Etymology

From Old French rogir, from roge +‎ -ir. Equivalent to Modern French rouge +‎ -ir.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁu.ʒiʁ/

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Verb

rougir

1. (intransitive) to redden
2. (intransitive) to blush

   Synonym: piquer un fard

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 rougir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	rougir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	rougissant /ʁu.ʒi.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		rougi /ʁu.ʒi/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	rougis /ʁu.ʒi/	rougis /ʁu.ʒi/	rougit /ʁu.ʒi/	rougissons /ʁu.ʒi.sɔ̃/	rougissez /ʁu.ʒi.se/	rougissent /ʁu.ʒis/
	imperfect	rougissais /ʁu.ʒi.sɛ/	rougissais /ʁu.ʒi.sɛ/	rougissait /ʁu.ʒi.sɛ/	rougissions /ʁu.ʒi.sjɔ̃/	rougissiez /ʁu.ʒi.sje/	rougissaient /ʁu.ʒi.sɛ/
	past historic2	rougis /ʁu.ʒi/	rougis /ʁu.ʒi/	rougit /ʁu.ʒi/	rougîmes /ʁu.ʒim/	rougîtes /ʁu.ʒit/	rougirent /ʁu.ʒiʁ/
	future	rougirai /ʁu.ʒi.ʁe/	rougiras /ʁu.ʒi.ʁa/	rougira /ʁu.ʒi.ʁa/	rougirons /ʁu.ʒi.ʁɔ̃/	rougirez /ʁu.ʒi.ʁe/	rougiront /ʁu.ʒi.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	rougirais /ʁu.ʒi.ʁɛ/	rougirais /ʁu.ʒi.ʁɛ/	rougirait /ʁu.ʒi.ʁɛ/	rougirions /ʁu.ʒi.ʁjɔ̃/	rougiriez /ʁu.ʒi.ʁje/	rougiraient /ʁu.ʒi.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	rougisse /ʁu.ʒis/	rougisses /ʁu.ʒis/	rougisse /ʁu.ʒis/	rougissions /ʁu.ʒi.sjɔ̃/	rougissiez /ʁu.ʒi.sje/	rougissent /ʁu.ʒis/
	imperfect2	rougisse /ʁu.ʒis/	rougisses /ʁu.ʒis/	rougît /ʁu.ʒi/	rougissions /ʁu.ʒi.sjɔ̃/	rougissiez /ʁu.ʒi.sje/	rougissent /ʁu.ʒis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	rougis /ʁu.ʒi/	—	rougissons /ʁu.ʒi.sɔ̃/	rougissez /ʁu.ʒi.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

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