regagner

French

Etymology

From re- +‎ gagner (“to gain”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁə.ɡa.ɲe/

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Verb

regagner

1. to regain, to recover (something lost)
2. to get back, to win back
3. to go back to

Conjugation

Conjugation of regagner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	regagner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	regagnant /ʁə.ɡa.ɲɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		regagné /ʁə.ɡa.ɲe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	regagne /ʁə.ɡaɲ/	regagnes /ʁə.ɡaɲ/	regagne /ʁə.ɡaɲ/	regagnons /ʁə.ɡa.ɲɔ̃/	regagnez /ʁə.ɡa.ɲe/	regagnent /ʁə.ɡaɲ/
	imperfect	regagnais /ʁə.ɡa.ɲɛ/	regagnais /ʁə.ɡa.ɲɛ/	regagnait /ʁə.ɡa.ɲɛ/	regagnions /ʁə.ɡa.ɲjɔ̃/	regagniez /ʁə.ɡa.ɲje/	regagnaient /ʁə.ɡa.ɲɛ/
	past historic2	regagnai /ʁə.ɡa.ɲe/	regagnas /ʁə.ɡa.ɲa/	regagna /ʁə.ɡa.ɲa/	regagnâmes /ʁə.ɡa.ɲam/	regagnâtes /ʁə.ɡa.ɲat/	regagnèrent /ʁə.ɡa.ɲɛʁ/
	future	regagnerai /ʁə.ɡa.ɲə.ʁe/	regagneras /ʁə.ɡa.ɲə.ʁa/	regagnera /ʁə.ɡa.ɲə.ʁa/	regagnerons /ʁə.ɡa.ɲə.ʁɔ̃/	regagnerez /ʁə.ɡa.ɲə.ʁe/	regagneront /ʁə.ɡa.ɲə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	regagnerais /ʁə.ɡa.ɲə.ʁɛ/	regagnerais /ʁə.ɡa.ɲə.ʁɛ/	regagnerait /ʁə.ɡa.ɲə.ʁɛ/	regagnerions /ʁə.ɡa.ɲə.ʁjɔ̃/	regagneriez /ʁə.ɡa.ɲə.ʁje/	regagneraient /ʁə.ɡa.ɲə.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	regagne /ʁə.ɡaɲ/	regagnes /ʁə.ɡaɲ/	regagne /ʁə.ɡaɲ/	regagnions /ʁə.ɡa.ɲjɔ̃/	regagniez /ʁə.ɡa.ɲje/	regagnent /ʁə.ɡaɲ/
	imperfect2	regagnasse /ʁə.ɡa.ɲas/	regagnasses /ʁə.ɡa.ɲas/	regagnât /ʁə.ɡa.ɲa/	regagnassions /ʁə.ɡa.ɲa.sjɔ̃/	regagnassiez /ʁə.ɡa.ɲa.sje/	regagnassent /ʁə.ɡa.ɲas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	regagne /ʁə.ɡaɲ/	—	regagnons /ʁə.ɡa.ɲɔ̃/	regagnez /ʁə.ɡa.ɲe/	—
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

• regagner ses pénates

Further reading

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