Réduiras

Réduiras is a verb form found in the Occitan language family (Lenga d'òc). It represents the second-person singular of a future tense form of the verb reduire, meaning to reduce. In practice, réduiras translates to “you will reduce” in English and is used to indicate a future action performed by the subject you.

The form reflects Occitan’s verb-conjugation patterns, where roots from Latin reduere have evolved into distinct Occitan verbs such as reduire. The spelling réduiras—with accents on the initial vowel—illustrates how orthographic conventions in different Occitan dialects and transcription traditions mark stress and vowel quality. Variants of the same form may appear as reduiras or réduiras depending on the regional standard or historical orthography (for example, in some Provençal or Languedocien texts).

Usage and context vary by dialect, but the core function remains a future-oriented second-person singular. Réduiras appears in both prose and poetry within Occitan literature and is part of everyday verb usage in regions where Occitan remains a living language. Its presence is generally restricted to contexts where the speaker directly addresses a single other person or when the subject is explicitly indicated as “you.”

In broader linguistic terms, réduiras illustrates how Romance languages reuse Latin roots through distinct regional morphologies. It has no widely attested status outside Occitan and is not a standard form in French, Spanish, or Portuguese.

See also: Occitan language, Lenga d'òc, reduire, Romance languages, verb conjugation.