redescendre
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French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From re- + descendre (“to descend/go down”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]redescendre
- to come back down, to go back down (to descend shortly after having gone up)
- to redescend (to descend a second time)
Usage notes
[edit]- This verb uses the auxiliary verb avoir when used transitively (or with a transitive sense, even when the complement is omitted); otherwise (when it is intransitive), it uses être.
- il est redescendu du sommet ― he came back down from the summit
- elle a redescendu l’ordinateur ― she got the computer back down
Conjugation
[edit]Conjugation of redescendre (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | redescendre | |||||
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compound | avoir or être + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | redescendant /ʁə.de.sɑ̃.dɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant or étant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | redescendu /ʁə.de.sɑ̃.dy/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | redescends /ʁə.de.sɑ̃/ |
redescends /ʁə.de.sɑ̃/ |
redescend /ʁə.de.sɑ̃/ |
redescendons /ʁə.de.sɑ̃.dɔ̃/ |
redescendez /ʁə.de.sɑ̃.de/ |
redescendent /ʁə.de.sɑ̃d/ |
imperfect | redescendais /ʁə.de.sɑ̃.dɛ/ |
redescendais /ʁə.de.sɑ̃.dɛ/ |
redescendait /ʁə.de.sɑ̃.dɛ/ |
redescendions /ʁə.de.sɑ̃.djɔ̃/ |
redescendiez /ʁə.de.sɑ̃.dje/ |
redescendaient /ʁə.de.sɑ̃.dɛ/ | |
past historic2 | redescendis /ʁə.de.sɑ̃.di/ |
redescendis /ʁə.de.sɑ̃.di/ |
redescendit /ʁə.de.sɑ̃.di/ |
redescendîmes /ʁə.de.sɑ̃.dim/ |
redescendîtes /ʁə.de.sɑ̃.dit/ |
redescendirent /ʁə.de.sɑ̃.diʁ/ | |
future | redescendrai /ʁə.de.sɑ̃.dʁe/ |
redescendras /ʁə.de.sɑ̃.dʁa/ |
redescendra /ʁə.de.sɑ̃.dʁa/ |
redescendrons /ʁə.de.sɑ̃.dʁɔ̃/ |
redescendrez /ʁə.de.sɑ̃.dʁe/ |
redescendront /ʁə.de.sɑ̃.dʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | redescendrais /ʁə.de.sɑ̃.dʁɛ/ |
redescendrais /ʁə.de.sɑ̃.dʁɛ/ |
redescendrait /ʁə.de.sɑ̃.dʁɛ/ |
redescendrions /ʁə.de.sɑ̃.dʁi.jɔ̃/ |
redescendriez /ʁə.de.sɑ̃.dʁi.je/ |
redescendraient /ʁə.de.sɑ̃.dʁɛ/ | |
(compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir or être + past participle | |||||
pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir or être + past participle | ||||||
past anterior2 | past historic of avoir or être + past participle | ||||||
future perfect | future of avoir or être + past participle | ||||||
conditional perfect | conditional of avoir or être + past participle | ||||||
subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | redescende /ʁə.de.sɑ̃d/ |
redescendes /ʁə.de.sɑ̃d/ |
redescende /ʁə.de.sɑ̃d/ |
redescendions /ʁə.de.sɑ̃.djɔ̃/ |
redescendiez /ʁə.de.sɑ̃.dje/ |
redescendent /ʁə.de.sɑ̃d/ |
imperfect2 | redescendisse /ʁə.de.sɑ̃.dis/ |
redescendisses /ʁə.de.sɑ̃.dis/ |
redescendît /ʁə.de.sɑ̃.di/ |
redescendissions /ʁə.de.sɑ̃.di.sjɔ̃/ |
redescendissiez /ʁə.de.sɑ̃.di.sje/ |
redescendissent /ʁə.de.sɑ̃.dis/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir or être + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir or être + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | redescends /ʁə.de.sɑ̃/ |
— | redescendons /ʁə.de.sɑ̃.dɔ̃/ |
redescendez /ʁə.de.sɑ̃.de/ |
— | |
compound | — | simple imperative of avoir or être + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir or être + past participle | simple imperative of avoir or être + 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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). |
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “redescendre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.