remédier

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin remediāre. See also remède.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁə.me.dje/

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Verb

remédier

1. (intransitive) to remedy, to cure; to fix [with à]

Conjugation

Conjugation of remédier (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	remédier
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	remédiant /ʁə.me.djɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		remédié /ʁə.me.dje/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	remédie /ʁə.me.di/	remédies /ʁə.me.di/	remédie /ʁə.me.di/	remédions /ʁə.me.djɔ̃/	remédiez /ʁə.me.dje/	remédient /ʁə.me.di/
	imperfect	remédiais /ʁə.me.djɛ/	remédiais /ʁə.me.djɛ/	remédiait /ʁə.me.djɛ/	remédiions /ʁə.me.di.jɔ̃/	remédiiez /ʁə.me.di.je/	remédiaient /ʁə.me.djɛ/
	past historic2	remédiai /ʁə.me.dje/	remédias /ʁə.me.dja/	remédia /ʁə.me.dja/	remédiâmes /ʁə.me.djam/	remédiâtes /ʁə.me.djat/	remédièrent /ʁə.me.djɛʁ/
	future	remédierai /ʁə.me.di.ʁe/	remédieras /ʁə.me.di.ʁa/	remédiera /ʁə.me.di.ʁa/	remédierons /ʁə.me.di.ʁɔ̃/	remédierez /ʁə.me.di.ʁe/	remédieront /ʁə.me.di.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	remédierais /ʁə.me.di.ʁɛ/	remédierais /ʁə.me.di.ʁɛ/	remédierait /ʁə.me.di.ʁɛ/	remédierions /ʁə.me.di.ʁjɔ̃/	remédieriez /ʁə.me.di.ʁje/	remédieraient /ʁə.me.di.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	remédie /ʁə.me.di/	remédies /ʁə.me.di/	remédie /ʁə.me.di/	remédiions /ʁə.me.di.jɔ̃/	remédiiez /ʁə.me.di.je/	remédient /ʁə.me.di/
	imperfect2	remédiasse /ʁə.me.djas/	remédiasses /ʁə.me.djas/	remédiât /ʁə.me.dja/	remédiassions /ʁə.me.dja.sjɔ̃/	remédiassiez /ʁə.me.dja.sje/	remédiassent /ʁə.me.djas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	remédie /ʁə.me.di/	—	remédions /ʁə.me.djɔ̃/	remédiez /ʁə.me.dje/	—
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

• remédiation

Further reading

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