intervertir

French

Etymology

From Latin intervertere.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vɛʁ.tiʁ/

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Verb

intervertir

1. (transitive) to invert, reverse

   Synonyms: inverser, renverser

2. (transitive) to interchange

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-.

Conjugation of intervertir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	intervertir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	intervertissant /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vɛʁ.ti.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		interverti /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vɛʁ.ti/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	intervertis /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vɛʁ.ti/	intervertis /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vɛʁ.ti/	intervertit /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vɛʁ.ti/	intervertissons /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vɛʁ.ti.sɔ̃/	intervertissez /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vɛʁ.ti.se/	intervertissent /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vɛʁ.tis/
	imperfect	intervertissais /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vɛʁ.ti.sɛ/	intervertissais /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vɛʁ.ti.sɛ/	intervertissait /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vɛʁ.ti.sɛ/	intervertissions /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vɛʁ.ti.sjɔ̃/	intervertissiez /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vɛʁ.ti.sje/	intervertissaient /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vɛʁ.ti.sɛ/
	past historic2	intervertis /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vɛʁ.ti/	intervertis /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vɛʁ.ti/	intervertit /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vɛʁ.ti/	intervertîmes /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vɛʁ.tim/	intervertîtes /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vɛʁ.tit/	intervertirent /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vɛʁ.tiʁ/
	future	intervertirai /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vɛʁ.ti.ʁe/	intervertiras /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vɛʁ.ti.ʁa/	intervertira /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vɛʁ.ti.ʁa/	intervertirons /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vɛʁ.ti.ʁɔ̃/	intervertirez /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vɛʁ.ti.ʁe/	intervertiront /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vɛʁ.ti.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	intervertirais /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vɛʁ.ti.ʁɛ/	intervertirais /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vɛʁ.ti.ʁɛ/	intervertirait /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vɛʁ.ti.ʁɛ/	intervertirions /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vɛʁ.ti.ʁjɔ̃/	intervertiriez /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vɛʁ.ti.ʁje/	intervertiraient /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vɛʁ.ti.ʁɛ/
(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	intervertisse /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vɛʁ.tis/	intervertisses /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vɛʁ.tis/	intervertisse /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vɛʁ.tis/	intervertissions /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vɛʁ.ti.sjɔ̃/	intervertissiez /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vɛʁ.ti.sje/	intervertissent /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vɛʁ.tis/
	imperfect2	intervertisse /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vɛʁ.tis/	intervertisses /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vɛʁ.tis/	intervertît /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vɛʁ.ti/	intervertissions /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vɛʁ.ti.sjɔ̃/	intervertissiez /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vɛʁ.ti.sje/	intervertissent /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vɛʁ.tis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	intervertis /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vɛʁ.ti/	—	intervertissons /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vɛʁ.ti.sɔ̃/	intervertissez /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vɛʁ.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).

Further reading

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