repleuvoir

French

Etymology

From re- +‎ pleuvoir.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁə.plø.vwaʁ/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -waʁ

Verb

repleuvoir (impersonal)

1. to rain again, to rain for a second time

Conjugation

This is a defective verb, only conjugated in the third-person singular.

Conjugation of repleuvoir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	repleuvoir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	repleuvant /ʁə.plœ.vɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		replu /ʁə.ply/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	—	—	repleut /ʁə.plø/	—	—	—
	imperfect	—	—	repleuvait /ʁə.plœ.vɛ/	—	—	—
	past historic2	—	—	replut /ʁə.ply/	—	—	—
	future	—	—	repleuvra /ʁə.plœ.vʁa/	—	—	—
	conditional	—	—	repleuvrait /ʁə.plœ.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	—	—	repleuve /ʁə.plœv/	—	—	—
	imperfect2	—	—	replût /ʁə.ply/	—	—	—
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	—	—	—	—	—
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

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