restituer

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin restituō.

Pronunciation

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Verb

restituer

1. (transitive) to restitute, to restore (return to something's former condition)
2. (transitive) to bring back, bring back to life
3. (transitive) to recreate, to reproduce (create/produce again)
4. (transitive) to return, to give back (something to its original owner)
5. (transitive) to restitute, to refund
6. (transitive, colloquial) to throw up (vomit)

Conjugation

Conjugation of restituer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	restituer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	restituant /ʁɛs.ti.tɥɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		restitué /ʁɛs.ti.tɥe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	restitue /ʁɛs.ti.ty/	restitues /ʁɛs.ti.ty/	restitue /ʁɛs.ti.ty/	restituons /ʁɛs.ti.tɥɔ̃/	restituez /ʁɛs.ti.tɥe/	restituent /ʁɛs.ti.ty/
	imperfect	restituais /ʁɛs.ti.tɥɛ/	restituais /ʁɛs.ti.tɥɛ/	restituait /ʁɛs.ti.tɥɛ/	restituions /ʁɛs.ti.ty.jɔ̃/	restituiez /ʁɛs.ti.ty.je/	restituaient /ʁɛs.ti.tɥɛ/
	past historic2	restituai /ʁɛs.ti.tɥe/	restituas /ʁɛs.ti.tɥa/	restitua /ʁɛs.ti.tɥa/	restituâmes /ʁɛs.ti.tɥam/	restituâtes /ʁɛs.ti.tɥat/	restituèrent /ʁɛs.ti.tɥɛʁ/
	future	restituerai /ʁɛs.ti.ty.ʁe/	restitueras /ʁɛs.ti.ty.ʁa/	restituera /ʁɛs.ti.ty.ʁa/	restituerons /ʁɛs.ti.ty.ʁɔ̃/	restituerez /ʁɛs.ti.ty.ʁe/	restitueront /ʁɛs.ti.ty.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	restituerais /ʁɛs.ti.ty.ʁɛ/	restituerais /ʁɛs.ti.ty.ʁɛ/	restituerait /ʁɛs.ti.ty.ʁɛ/	restituerions /ʁɛs.ti.ty.ʁjɔ̃/	restitueriez /ʁɛs.ti.ty.ʁje/	restitueraient /ʁɛs.ti.ty.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	restitue /ʁɛs.ti.ty/	restitues /ʁɛs.ti.ty/	restitue /ʁɛs.ti.ty/	restituions /ʁɛs.ti.ty.jɔ̃/	restituiez /ʁɛs.ti.ty.je/	restituent /ʁɛs.ti.ty/
	imperfect2	restituasse /ʁɛs.ti.tɥas/	restituasses /ʁɛs.ti.tɥas/	restituât /ʁɛs.ti.tɥa/	restituassions /ʁɛs.ti.tɥa.sjɔ̃/	restituassiez /ʁɛs.ti.tɥa.sje/	restituassent /ʁɛs.ti.tɥas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	restitue /ʁɛs.ti.ty/	—	restituons /ʁɛs.ti.tɥɔ̃/	restituez /ʁɛs.ti.tɥe/	—
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

• restituable
• restitutif

Further reading

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