rajeunir

French

Etymology

From ra- +‎ jeune +‎ -ir.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁa.ʒœ.niʁ/

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Verb

rajeunir

1. (transitive) to rejuvenate
2. (transitive) to make young
3. (figuratively, transitive) to take off (years from someone's age) (to make appear younger)

   Ce costume le rajeunit de 10 ans. ― This costume takes 10 years off him.

4. (figuratively, transitive) to bring back; to send back (remind of a past time)

   Cette vieille musique me rajeunit. ― This old music brings me back.

5. (intransitive) to get younger

   Dans le film, Benjamin Button rajeunit. ― In the film, Benjamin Button gets younger.

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 rajeunir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	rajeunir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	rajeunissant /ʁa.ʒœ.ni.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		rajeuni /ʁa.ʒœ.ni/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	rajeunis /ʁa.ʒœ.ni/	rajeunis /ʁa.ʒœ.ni/	rajeunit /ʁa.ʒœ.ni/	rajeunissons /ʁa.ʒœ.ni.sɔ̃/	rajeunissez /ʁa.ʒœ.ni.se/	rajeunissent /ʁa.ʒœ.nis/
	imperfect	rajeunissais /ʁa.ʒœ.ni.sɛ/	rajeunissais /ʁa.ʒœ.ni.sɛ/	rajeunissait /ʁa.ʒœ.ni.sɛ/	rajeunissions /ʁa.ʒœ.ni.sjɔ̃/	rajeunissiez /ʁa.ʒœ.ni.sje/	rajeunissaient /ʁa.ʒœ.ni.sɛ/
	past historic2	rajeunis /ʁa.ʒœ.ni/	rajeunis /ʁa.ʒœ.ni/	rajeunit /ʁa.ʒœ.ni/	rajeunîmes /ʁa.ʒœ.nim/	rajeunîtes /ʁa.ʒœ.nit/	rajeunirent /ʁa.ʒœ.niʁ/
	future	rajeunirai /ʁa.ʒœ.ni.ʁe/	rajeuniras /ʁa.ʒœ.ni.ʁa/	rajeunira /ʁa.ʒœ.ni.ʁa/	rajeunirons /ʁa.ʒœ.ni.ʁɔ̃/	rajeunirez /ʁa.ʒœ.ni.ʁe/	rajeuniront /ʁa.ʒœ.ni.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	rajeunirais /ʁa.ʒœ.ni.ʁɛ/	rajeunirais /ʁa.ʒœ.ni.ʁɛ/	rajeunirait /ʁa.ʒœ.ni.ʁɛ/	rajeunirions /ʁa.ʒœ.ni.ʁjɔ̃/	rajeuniriez /ʁa.ʒœ.ni.ʁje/	rajeuniraient /ʁa.ʒœ.ni.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	rajeunisse /ʁa.ʒœ.nis/	rajeunisses /ʁa.ʒœ.nis/	rajeunisse /ʁa.ʒœ.nis/	rajeunissions /ʁa.ʒœ.ni.sjɔ̃/	rajeunissiez /ʁa.ʒœ.ni.sje/	rajeunissent /ʁa.ʒœ.nis/
	imperfect2	rajeunisse /ʁa.ʒœ.nis/	rajeunisses /ʁa.ʒœ.nis/	rajeunît /ʁa.ʒœ.ni/	rajeunissions /ʁa.ʒœ.ni.sjɔ̃/	rajeunissiez /ʁa.ʒœ.ni.sje/	rajeunissent /ʁa.ʒœ.nis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	rajeunis /ʁa.ʒœ.ni/	—	rajeunissons /ʁa.ʒœ.ni.sɔ̃/	rajeunissez /ʁa.ʒœ.ni.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

• rajeunissement

Further reading

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