relever
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old French relever, from Latin relevāre, corresponding to re- + lever.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]relever
- (transitive) to stand up (again); to stand, to right (a vehicle etc.)
- (transitive) to help (someone) to their feet; to help up
- 1862, Victor Hugo, chapter 24, in Les Misérables, Tome V : Jean Valjean, book 1:
- Grace à lui, partout présent dans le carnage comme une providence, ceux qui tombaient étaient relevés, transportés dans la salle basse, et pansés.
- Thanks to him, ever-present in the carnage like a providence, those who fell were helped up, transported to the lower room, and bandaged.
- (transitive) to pull up (socks etc.); to lift, raise (skirt etc.)
- Alors elle se décida, et relevant sa robe, montra une forte jambe de vachère, mal serrée en un bas grossier. (Guy de Maupassant, ‘La Maison Tellier’)
- Then she made a decision, and lifting her dress, showed a strong, farm-girl's leg, in a badly-fitting coarse stocking.
- Alors elle se décida, et relevant sa robe, montra une forte jambe de vachère, mal serrée en un bas grossier. (Guy de Maupassant, ‘La Maison Tellier’)
- (transitive) to put up (hair)
- Elle avait simplement relevé ses cheveux et passé un peignoir de laine blanche. (Emile Zola, Germinal)
- She'd simply put her hair up and thrown on a white woollen dressing gown.
- Elle avait simplement relevé ses cheveux et passé un peignoir de laine blanche. (Emile Zola, Germinal)
- (transitive) to heighten, raise, lift (up); to increase
- —Mon enfant, où sont les tiennes? dit-il en lui relevant la tête. (Honoré de Balzac, Une Fille d'Ève)
- ‘Where are yours, my child?’ he said, lifting his head.
- —Mon enfant, où sont les tiennes? dit-il en lui relevant la tête. (Honoré de Balzac, Une Fille d'Ève)
- (transitive) to restore, rebuild
- (transitive) to season (food)
- (transitive) to take down, note, copy out
- (transitive) to react to, answer, respond to
- (intransitive) to ride up (of clothes)
- (reflexive) to get up again, get to one's feet
- (transitive) to take up (a challenge)
Conjugation
[edit]This verb is conjugated like parler, except the -e- /ə/ of the second-to-last syllable becomes -è- /ɛ/ when the next vowel is a silent or schwa -e-, as in the third-person singular present indicative il relève and the third-person singular future indicative il relèvera.
infinitive | simple | relever | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | relevant /ʁə.l(ə).vɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | relevé /ʁə.l(ə).ve/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | relève /ʁə.lɛv/ |
relèves /ʁə.lɛv/ |
relève /ʁə.lɛv/ |
relevons /ʁə.l(ə).vɔ̃/ |
relevez /ʁə.l(ə).ve/ |
relèvent /ʁə.lɛv/ |
imperfect | relevais /ʁə.l(ə).vɛ/ |
relevais /ʁə.l(ə).vɛ/ |
relevait /ʁə.l(ə).vɛ/ |
relevions /ʁə.lə.vjɔ̃/ |
releviez /ʁə.lə.vje/ |
relevaient /ʁə.l(ə).vɛ/ | |
past historic2 | relevai /ʁə.l(ə).ve/ |
relevas /ʁə.l(ə).va/ |
releva /ʁə.l(ə).va/ |
relevâmes /ʁə.l(ə).vam/ |
relevâtes /ʁə.l(ə).vat/ |
relevèrent /ʁə.l(ə).vɛʁ/ | |
future | relèverai /ʁə.lɛ.vʁe/ or /ʁə.le.vʁe/ |
relèveras /ʁə.lɛ.vʁa/ or /ʁə.le.vʁa/ |
relèvera /ʁə.lɛ.vʁa/ or /ʁə.le.vʁa/ |
relèverons /ʁə.lɛ.vʁɔ̃/ or /ʁə.le.vʁɔ̃/ |
relèverez /ʁə.lɛ.vʁe/ or /ʁə.le.vʁe/ |
relèveront /ʁə.lɛ.vʁɔ̃/ or /ʁə.le.vʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | relèverais /ʁə.lɛ.vʁɛ/ or /ʁə.le.vʁɛ/ |
relèverais /ʁə.lɛ.vʁɛ/ or /ʁə.le.vʁɛ/ |
relèverait /ʁə.lɛ.vʁɛ/ or /ʁə.le.vʁɛ/ |
relèverions /ʁə.lɛ.və.ʁjɔ̃/ or /ʁə.le.və.ʁjɔ̃/ |
relèveriez /ʁə.lɛ.və.ʁje/ or /ʁə.le.və.ʁje/ |
relèveraient /ʁə.lɛ.vʁɛ/ or /ʁə.le.vʁɛ/ | |
(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 | relève /ʁə.lɛv/ |
relèves /ʁə.lɛv/ |
relève /ʁə.lɛv/ |
relevions /ʁə.lə.vjɔ̃/ |
releviez /ʁə.lə.vje/ |
relèvent /ʁə.lɛv/ |
imperfect2 | relevasse /ʁə.l(ə).vas/ |
relevasses /ʁə.l(ə).vas/ |
relevât /ʁə.l(ə).va/ |
relevassions /ʁə.l(ə).va.sjɔ̃/ |
relevassiez /ʁə.l(ə).va.sje/ |
relevassent /ʁə.l(ə).vas/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | relève /ʁə.lɛv/ |
— | relevons /ʁə.l(ə).vɔ̃/ |
relevez /ʁə.l(ə).ve/ |
— | |
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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). |
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Romanian: releva
Further reading
[edit]- “relever”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
[edit]Latin
[edit]Verb
[edit]relever
Old French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin relevāre, corresponding to re- + lever.
Verb
[edit]relever
Conjugation
[edit]This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-v, *-vs, *-vt are modified to f, s, t. This verb has a stressed present stem reliev distinct from the unstressed stem relev. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.
simple | compound | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
infinitive | relever | avoir relevé | |||||
gerund | en relevant | gerund of avoir + past participle | |||||
present participle | relevant | ||||||
past participle | relevé | ||||||
person | singular | plural | |||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | jo | tu | il | nos | vos | il | |
simple tenses |
present | relief | relieves | relieve | relevons | relevez | relievent |
imperfect | relevoie, releveie, relevoe, releveve | relevoies, releveies, relevoes, releveves | relevoit, releveit, relevot, releveve | releviiens, releviens | releviiez, releviez | relevoient, releveient, relevoent, relevevent | |
preterite | relevai | relevas | releva | relevames | relevastes | releverent | |
future | releverai | releveras | relevera | releverons | releveroiz, relevereiz, releverez | releveront | |
conditional | releveroie, relevereie | releveroies, relevereies | releveroit, relevereit | releveriiens, releveriens | releveriiez, releveriez | releveroient, relevereient | |
compound tenses |
present perfect | present tense of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect | imperfect tense of avoir + past participle | ||||||
past anterior | preterite tense of avoir + past participle | ||||||
future perfect | future tense of avoir + past participle | ||||||
conditional perfect | conditional tense of avoir + past participle | ||||||
subjunctive | que jo | que tu | qu’il | que nos | que vos | qu’il | |
simple tenses |
present | relief | relies | reliet | relevons | relevez | relievent |
imperfect | relevasse | relevasses | relevast | relevissons, relevissiens | relevissoiz, relevissez, relevissiez | relevassent | |
compound tenses |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | tu | – | nos | vos | – | |
— | relieve | — | relevons | relevez | — |
Descendants
[edit]- French: relever
- French terms inherited from Old French
- French terms derived from Old French
- French terms inherited from Latin
- French terms derived from Latin
- French terms prefixed with re-
- French 3-syllable words
- French terms with IPA pronunciation
- French terms with audio pronunciation
- French lemmas
- French verbs
- French transitive verbs
- French terms with quotations
- French intransitive verbs
- French reflexive verbs
- French verbs with conjugation -e-er
- French first group verbs
- Latin non-lemma forms
- Latin verb forms
- Old French terms inherited from Latin
- Old French terms derived from Latin
- Old French terms prefixed with re-
- Old French lemmas
- Old French verbs
- Old French verbs with stem alternations
- Old French verbs with weak-a preterite
- Old French first group verbs
- Old French verbs ending in -er
- Old French irregular verbs