fraîchir

French

Alternative forms

  • fraichir (1990 spelling reform)

Etymology

From fraîche (fresh) + -ir.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fʁɛ.ʃiʁ/, /fʁe.ʃiʁ/
  • (file)

Verb

fraîchir

  1. (intransitive) to freshen (temperature, wind)
  2. (impersonal) to deteriorate (weather)

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-.

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