An Introduction to French Pronunciation

120 Gemination
This situation does not arise in the case of the 1st and
2nd persons plural, e.g. (nous) jurions, (vous) juriez /ʒyrjf/,
/ʒyrje/, (nous) jurerions, (vous) jureriez /ʒyrcrjf/, /ʒyrcrje/.
(ii) the verbs courir and mourir, in which there is no mute
e, even in writing:
Imperfect Conditional
( je) courais /kurε/ (je) courrais /kurrε/
(nous) courions /kurjf/ (nous) courrions /kurrjf/
(il) mourait /murε/ (il) mourrait /murrε/
and in the relatively infrequent verbs acquérir, conquérir,
s’enquérir and requérir, in which case there is also a difference
in the preceding vowel (/e/ ~ /ε/):
Imperfect Conditional
(il ) acquérait /akerε/ (il) acquerrait /akεrrε/
Note that in the future and conditional of the verbs pouvoir
and voir the -rr- does not represent a geminate consonant,
e.g. (il) pourra /pura/, ( je) verrai /vεre/.
17.2.3 A similar distinction also occurs, in the 3rd person
singular only, between the past historic and the future of 1st
conjugation verbs (i.e. -er verbs) whose stem ends in -r-, e.g.:
Past historic Future
(il) adora /adbra/ (il ) adorera /adbrra/
but this is relatively unimportant given the fact that the past
historic is little used in everyday spoken French.
17.2.4 Further examples, where there is no question of a
minimal pair, are une robe bleue /yn rbb blø/, netteté /nεtte/,
avec qui? /avεk ki/, si je jugeais que [ . . . ] /si ʒ ʒyʒε kc/, au
même moment /o mεm mbme/, verrerie /vεrri/.
17.2.5 Geminates can – and frequently do – occur in the
middle of words, in particular: