réenchérir

French

Etymology

From ré- +‎ enchérir.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁe.ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁiʁ/

Verb

réenchérir

1. Alternative form of renchérir

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 réenchérir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	réenchérir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	réenchérissant /ʁe.ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		réenchéri /ʁe.ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	réenchéris /ʁe.ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi/	réenchéris /ʁe.ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi/	réenchérit /ʁe.ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi/	réenchérissons /ʁe.ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.sɔ̃/	réenchérissez /ʁe.ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.se/	réenchérissent /ʁe.ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁis/
	imperfect	réenchérissais /ʁe.ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.sɛ/	réenchérissais /ʁe.ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.sɛ/	réenchérissait /ʁe.ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.sɛ/	réenchérissions /ʁe.ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.sjɔ̃/	réenchérissiez /ʁe.ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.sje/	réenchérissaient /ʁe.ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.sɛ/
	past historic2	réenchéris /ʁe.ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi/	réenchéris /ʁe.ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi/	réenchérit /ʁe.ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi/	réenchérîmes /ʁe.ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁim/	réenchérîtes /ʁe.ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁit/	réenchérirent /ʁe.ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁiʁ/
	future	réenchérirai /ʁe.ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.ʁe/	réenchériras /ʁe.ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.ʁa/	réenchérira /ʁe.ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.ʁa/	réenchérirons /ʁe.ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.ʁɔ̃/	réenchérirez /ʁe.ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.ʁe/	réenchériront /ʁe.ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	réenchérirais /ʁe.ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.ʁɛ/	réenchérirais /ʁe.ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.ʁɛ/	réenchérirait /ʁe.ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.ʁɛ/	réenchéririons /ʁe.ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.ʁjɔ̃/	réenchéririez /ʁe.ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.ʁje/	réenchériraient /ʁe.ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.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	réenchérisse /ʁe.ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁis/	réenchérisses /ʁe.ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁis/	réenchérisse /ʁe.ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁis/	réenchérissions /ʁe.ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.sjɔ̃/	réenchérissiez /ʁe.ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.sje/	réenchérissent /ʁe.ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁis/
	imperfect2	réenchérisse /ʁe.ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁis/	réenchérisses /ʁe.ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁis/	réenchérît /ʁe.ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi/	réenchérissions /ʁe.ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.sjɔ̃/	réenchérissiez /ʁe.ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.sje/	réenchérissent /ʁe.ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	réenchéris /ʁe.ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi/	—	réenchérissons /ʁe.ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.sɔ̃/	réenchérissez /ʁe.ɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.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

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