rembrunir

French

Etymology

From re- +‎ embrunir.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁɑ̃.bʁy.niʁ/

Verb

rembrunir

1. (transitive) to darken
2. (reflexive) to darken, cloud over

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 rembrunir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	rembrunir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	rembrunissant /ʁɑ̃.bʁy.ni.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		rembruni /ʁɑ̃.bʁy.ni/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	rembrunis /ʁɑ̃.bʁy.ni/	rembrunis /ʁɑ̃.bʁy.ni/	rembrunit /ʁɑ̃.bʁy.ni/	rembrunissons /ʁɑ̃.bʁy.ni.sɔ̃/	rembrunissez /ʁɑ̃.bʁy.ni.se/	rembrunissent /ʁɑ̃.bʁy.nis/
	imperfect	rembrunissais /ʁɑ̃.bʁy.ni.sɛ/	rembrunissais /ʁɑ̃.bʁy.ni.sɛ/	rembrunissait /ʁɑ̃.bʁy.ni.sɛ/	rembrunissions /ʁɑ̃.bʁy.ni.sjɔ̃/	rembrunissiez /ʁɑ̃.bʁy.ni.sje/	rembrunissaient /ʁɑ̃.bʁy.ni.sɛ/
	past historic2	rembrunis /ʁɑ̃.bʁy.ni/	rembrunis /ʁɑ̃.bʁy.ni/	rembrunit /ʁɑ̃.bʁy.ni/	rembrunîmes /ʁɑ̃.bʁy.nim/	rembrunîtes /ʁɑ̃.bʁy.nit/	rembrunirent /ʁɑ̃.bʁy.niʁ/
	future	rembrunirai /ʁɑ̃.bʁy.ni.ʁe/	rembruniras /ʁɑ̃.bʁy.ni.ʁa/	rembrunira /ʁɑ̃.bʁy.ni.ʁa/	rembrunirons /ʁɑ̃.bʁy.ni.ʁɔ̃/	rembrunirez /ʁɑ̃.bʁy.ni.ʁe/	rembruniront /ʁɑ̃.bʁy.ni.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	rembrunirais /ʁɑ̃.bʁy.ni.ʁɛ/	rembrunirais /ʁɑ̃.bʁy.ni.ʁɛ/	rembrunirait /ʁɑ̃.bʁy.ni.ʁɛ/	rembrunirions /ʁɑ̃.bʁy.ni.ʁjɔ̃/	rembruniriez /ʁɑ̃.bʁy.ni.ʁje/	rembruniraient /ʁɑ̃.bʁy.ni.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	rembrunisse /ʁɑ̃.bʁy.nis/	rembrunisses /ʁɑ̃.bʁy.nis/	rembrunisse /ʁɑ̃.bʁy.nis/	rembrunissions /ʁɑ̃.bʁy.ni.sjɔ̃/	rembrunissiez /ʁɑ̃.bʁy.ni.sje/	rembrunissent /ʁɑ̃.bʁy.nis/
	imperfect2	rembrunisse /ʁɑ̃.bʁy.nis/	rembrunisses /ʁɑ̃.bʁy.nis/	rembrunît /ʁɑ̃.bʁy.ni/	rembrunissions /ʁɑ̃.bʁy.ni.sjɔ̃/	rembrunissiez /ʁɑ̃.bʁy.ni.sje/	rembrunissent /ʁɑ̃.bʁy.nis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	rembrunis /ʁɑ̃.bʁy.ni/	—	rembrunissons /ʁɑ̃.bʁy.ni.sɔ̃/	rembrunissez /ʁɑ̃.bʁy.ni.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).

Derived terms

• rembrunissement

Further reading

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