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renchérir: Conjugation

The renchérir conjugation tables below show how to form the French verb renchérir according to tense and person. To listen to the pronunciation of a given tense of renchérir, click on the loudspeaker icon at the bottom of the table. See the notes on the conjugation of renchérir at the end of this page.

Present	Perfect
je renchéris tu renchéris il/elle renchérit nous renchérissons vous renchérissez ils/elles renchérissent Pronounce these verb forms	j' ai renchéri tu as renchéri il/elle a renchéri nous avons renchéri vous avez renchéri ils/elles ont renchéri Pronounce these verb forms
Imperfect	Pluperfect
je renchérissais tu renchérissais il/elle renchérissait nous renchérissions vous renchérissiez ils/elles renchérissaient Pronounce these verb forms	j' avais renchéri tu avais renchéri il/elle avait renchéri nous avions renchéri vous aviez renchéri ils/elles avaient renchéri Pronounce these verb forms
Future	Future-perfect
je renchérirai tu renchériras il/elle renchérira nous renchérirons vous renchérirez ils/elles renchériront Pronounce these verb forms	j' aurai renchéri tu auras renchéri il/elle aura renchéri nous aurons renchéri vous aurez renchéri ils/elles auront renchéri Pronounce these verb forms
Conditional	Conditional perfect
je renchérirais tu renchérirais il/elle renchérirait nous renchéririons vous renchéririez ils/elles renchériraient Pronounce these verb forms	j' aurais renchéri tu aurais renchéri il/elle aurait renchéri nous aurions renchéri vous auriez renchéri ils/elles auraient renchéri Pronounce these verb forms
Present subjunctive	Perfect subjunctive
je renchérisse tu renchérisses il/elle renchérisse nous renchérissions vous renchérissiez ils/elles renchérissent Pronounce these verb forms	j' aie renchéri tu aies renchéri il/elle ait renchéri nous ayons renchéri vous ayez renchéri ils/elles aient renchéri Pronounce these verb forms
Past historic	Past anterior
je renchéris tu renchéris il/elle renchérit nous renchérîmes vous renchérîtes ils/elles renchérirent Pronounce these verb forms	j' eus renchéri tu eus renchéri il/elle eut renchéri nous eûmes renchéri vous eûtes renchéri ils/elles eurent renchéri Pronounce these verb forms

This verb falls into the pattern commonly termed regular -ir verb. It is characterised by the consonant -ss- which appears before any ending beginning with a vowel (in the spelling) but not in the infinitive or past participle.

This is the pattern generally followed by verbs based on colours and some other common adjectives (such as (to turn red, blush), jaunir (to turn yellow), grandir (to grow), adoucir (to soften) etc. Many English verbs ending in -ish also have French counterparts ending in -ir and following this pattern (cf finir, polir, vernir (to varnish), abolir, ternir...

Around 300 verbs are reported to follow this pattern (Beescherelle (2006), la conjugaison pour tous). The category is marginally productive:

• On analogy with other verbs of the category, very occasional -ir neologisms are formed (cf amarsir);
• There is a very slight tendancy for irregular -ir verbs to "slip into" the regular -ir pattern. In educated usage, this happens in some senses for saillir and ressortir in some senses, and sometimes for the verb vêtir (Bescherelle, op cit, p. 27). Other non-standard forms occasionally found include vous bouillissez (instead of vous bouillez: see bouillir).