ratisser

See also: râtisser

French

Alternative forms

• râtisser (misspelling)

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁa.ti.se/

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Verb

ratisser

1. (transitive) to rake (to use a rake to collect things together)
2. (transitive, figuratively) to comb through, to comb over, to fine-tooth comb, to trawl

   Synonym: passer au peigne fin

Conjugation

Conjugation of ratisser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	ratisser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	ratissant /ʁa.ti.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		ratissé /ʁa.ti.se/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	ratisse /ʁa.tis/	ratisses /ʁa.tis/	ratisse /ʁa.tis/	ratissons /ʁa.ti.sɔ̃/	ratissez /ʁa.ti.se/	ratissent /ʁa.tis/
	imperfect	ratissais /ʁa.ti.sɛ/	ratissais /ʁa.ti.sɛ/	ratissait /ʁa.ti.sɛ/	ratissions /ʁa.ti.sjɔ̃/	ratissiez /ʁa.ti.sje/	ratissaient /ʁa.ti.sɛ/
	past historic2	ratissai /ʁa.ti.se/	ratissas /ʁa.ti.sa/	ratissa /ʁa.ti.sa/	ratissâmes /ʁa.ti.sam/	ratissâtes /ʁa.ti.sat/	ratissèrent /ʁa.ti.sɛʁ/
	future	ratisserai /ʁa.ti.sʁe/	ratisseras /ʁa.ti.sʁa/	ratissera /ʁa.ti.sʁa/	ratisserons /ʁa.ti.sʁɔ̃/	ratisserez /ʁa.ti.sʁe/	ratisseront /ʁa.ti.sʁɔ̃/
	conditional	ratisserais /ʁa.ti.sʁɛ/	ratisserais /ʁa.ti.sʁɛ/	ratisserait /ʁa.ti.sʁɛ/	ratisserions /ʁa.ti.sə.ʁjɔ̃/	ratisseriez /ʁa.ti.sə.ʁje/	ratisseraient /ʁa.ti.sʁɛ/
(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	ratisse /ʁa.tis/	ratisses /ʁa.tis/	ratisse /ʁa.tis/	ratissions /ʁa.ti.sjɔ̃/	ratissiez /ʁa.ti.sje/	ratissent /ʁa.tis/
	imperfect2	ratissasse /ʁa.ti.sas/	ratissasses /ʁa.ti.sas/	ratissât /ʁa.ti.sa/	ratissassions /ʁa.ti.sa.sjɔ̃/	ratissassiez /ʁa.ti.sa.sje/	ratissassent /ʁa.ti.sas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	ratisse /ʁa.tis/	—	ratissons /ʁa.ti.sɔ̃/	ratissez /ʁa.ti.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).

Derived terms

• ratissage
• ratisser large
• ratissette
• ratisseur
• ratissoir
• ratissoire
• ratissure

Related terms

• ratis

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• stariser