rejaillir

French

Etymology

From re- +‎ jaillir.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁə.ʒa.jiʁ/

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Verb

rejaillir

1. to splash back, splash up
2. (of infamy, scandal etc.) to rebound sur on (someone); (of glory) to be reflected sur on (someone)

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 rejaillir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	rejaillir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	rejaillissant /ʁə.ʒa.ji.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		rejailli /ʁə.ʒa.ji/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	rejaillis /ʁə.ʒa.ji/	rejaillis /ʁə.ʒa.ji/	rejaillit /ʁə.ʒa.ji/	rejaillissons /ʁə.ʒa.ji.sɔ̃/	rejaillissez /ʁə.ʒa.ji.se/	rejaillissent /ʁə.ʒa.jis/
	imperfect	rejaillissais /ʁə.ʒa.ji.sɛ/	rejaillissais /ʁə.ʒa.ji.sɛ/	rejaillissait /ʁə.ʒa.ji.sɛ/	rejaillissions /ʁə.ʒa.ji.sjɔ̃/	rejaillissiez /ʁə.ʒa.ji.sje/	rejaillissaient /ʁə.ʒa.ji.sɛ/
	past historic2	rejaillis /ʁə.ʒa.ji/	rejaillis /ʁə.ʒa.ji/	rejaillit /ʁə.ʒa.ji/	rejaillîmes /ʁə.ʒa.jim/	rejaillîtes /ʁə.ʒa.jit/	rejaillirent /ʁə.ʒa.jiʁ/
	future	rejaillirai /ʁə.ʒa.ji.ʁe/	rejailliras /ʁə.ʒa.ji.ʁa/	rejaillira /ʁə.ʒa.ji.ʁa/	rejaillirons /ʁə.ʒa.ji.ʁɔ̃/	rejaillirez /ʁə.ʒa.ji.ʁe/	rejailliront /ʁə.ʒa.ji.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	rejaillirais /ʁə.ʒa.ji.ʁɛ/	rejaillirais /ʁə.ʒa.ji.ʁɛ/	rejaillirait /ʁə.ʒa.ji.ʁɛ/	rejaillirions /ʁə.ʒa.ji.ʁjɔ̃/	rejailliriez /ʁə.ʒa.ji.ʁje/	rejailliraient /ʁə.ʒa.ji.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	rejaillisse /ʁə.ʒa.jis/	rejaillisses /ʁə.ʒa.jis/	rejaillisse /ʁə.ʒa.jis/	rejaillissions /ʁə.ʒa.ji.sjɔ̃/	rejaillissiez /ʁə.ʒa.ji.sje/	rejaillissent /ʁə.ʒa.jis/
	imperfect2	rejaillisse /ʁə.ʒa.jis/	rejaillisses /ʁə.ʒa.jis/	rejaillît /ʁə.ʒa.ji/	rejaillissions /ʁə.ʒa.ji.sjɔ̃/	rejaillissiez /ʁə.ʒa.ji.sje/	rejaillissent /ʁə.ʒa.jis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	rejaillis /ʁə.ʒa.ji/	—	rejaillissons /ʁə.ʒa.ji.sɔ̃/	rejaillissez /ʁə.ʒa.ji.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

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