renvoyer

French

Etymology

From r- +‎ envoyer.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ʁɑ̃.vwa.je/
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Verb

renvoyer

to resend, retransmit; to send again
to send back (to give back to the original sender)
to give back, throw back, post back, bounce back, swing back etc.
to put off, postpone (an appointment, a duty)
to reflect (i.e. of a reflective surface)
to echo (of sound, to come back)
(transitive) to fire, dismiss, expel a student
(followed by the preposition à) to refer (somebody to something)
to remind (somebody of something)

Conjugation

This verb is one of a few verbs that conjugate like noyer, except in the future and conditional, where they conjugate like voir.

Conjugation of renvoyer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	compound	avoir + past participle
infinitive	simple	renvoyer
present participle or gerund¹	simple	renvoyant /ʁɑ̃.vwa.jɑ̃/
present participle or gerund¹	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		renvoyé /ʁɑ̃.vwa.je/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	renvoie /ʁɑ̃.vwa/	renvoies /ʁɑ̃.vwa/	renvoie /ʁɑ̃.vwa/	renvoyons /ʁɑ̃.vwa.jɔ̃/	renvoyez /ʁɑ̃.vwa.je/	renvoient /ʁɑ̃.vwa/
	imperfect	renvoyais /ʁɑ̃.vwa.jɛ/	renvoyais /ʁɑ̃.vwa.jɛ/	renvoyait /ʁɑ̃.vwa.jɛ/	renvoyions /ʁɑ̃.vwaj.jɔ̃/	renvoyiez /ʁɑ̃.vwaj.je/	renvoyaient /ʁɑ̃.vwa.jɛ/
	past historic²	renvoyai /ʁɑ̃.vwa.je/	renvoyas /ʁɑ̃.vwa.ja/	renvoya /ʁɑ̃.vwa.ja/	renvoyâmes /ʁɑ̃.vwa.jam/	renvoyâtes /ʁɑ̃.vwa.jat/	renvoyèrent /ʁɑ̃.vwa.jɛʁ/
	future	renverrai /ʁɑ̃.vɛ.ʁe/ or /ʁɑ̃.ve.ʁe/	renverras /ʁɑ̃.vɛ.ʁa/ or /ʁɑ̃.ve.ʁa/	renverra /ʁɑ̃.vɛ.ʁa/ or /ʁɑ̃.ve.ʁa/	renverrons /ʁɑ̃.vɛ.ʁɔ̃/ or /ʁɑ̃.ve.ʁɔ̃/	renverrez /ʁɑ̃.vɛ.ʁe/ or /ʁɑ̃.ve.ʁe/	renverront /ʁɑ̃.vɛ.ʁɔ̃/ or /ʁɑ̃.ve.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	renverrais /ʁɑ̃.vɛ.ʁɛ/ or /ʁɑ̃.ve.ʁɛ/	renverrais /ʁɑ̃.vɛ.ʁɛ/ or /ʁɑ̃.ve.ʁɛ/	renverrait /ʁɑ̃.vɛ.ʁɛ/ or /ʁɑ̃.ve.ʁɛ/	renverrions /ʁɑ̃.vɛ.ʁjɔ̃/ or /ʁɑ̃.ve.ʁjɔ̃/	renverriez /ʁɑ̃.vɛ.ʁje/ or /ʁɑ̃.ve.ʁje/	renverraient /ʁɑ̃.vɛ.ʁɛ/ or /ʁɑ̃.ve.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	renvoie /ʁɑ̃.vwa/	renvoies /ʁɑ̃.vwa/	renvoie /ʁɑ̃.vwa/	renvoyions /ʁɑ̃.vwaj.jɔ̃/	renvoyiez /ʁɑ̃.vwaj.je/	renvoient /ʁɑ̃.vwa/
(simple tenses)	imperfect²	renvoyasse /ʁɑ̃.vwa.jas/	renvoyasses /ʁɑ̃.vwa.jas/	renvoyât /ʁɑ̃.vwa.ja/	renvoyassions /ʁɑ̃.vwa.ja.sjɔ̃/	renvoyassiez /ʁɑ̃.vwa.ja.sje/	renvoyassent /ʁɑ̃.vwa.jas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
(compound tenses)	pluperfect²	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	~~nous~~	~~vous~~	–
simple		—	renvoie /ʁɑ̃.vwa/	—	renvoyons /ʁɑ̃.vwa.jɔ̃/	renvoyez /ʁɑ̃.vwa.je/	—
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).