revancher

French

Etymology

From Old French revenchier (from re- +‎ vengier (“to avenge, to take revenge (upon)”, from Latin vindicō)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁə.vɑ̃.ʃe/

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Verb

revancher

1. (dated, literary) to take revenge

   Synonym: se venger

Conjugation

Conjugation of revancher (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	revancher
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	revanchant /ʁə.vɑ̃.ʃɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		revanché /ʁə.vɑ̃.ʃe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	revanche /ʁə.vɑ̃ʃ/	revanches /ʁə.vɑ̃ʃ/	revanche /ʁə.vɑ̃ʃ/	revanchons /ʁə.vɑ̃.ʃɔ̃/	revanchez /ʁə.vɑ̃.ʃe/	revanchent /ʁə.vɑ̃ʃ/
	imperfect	revanchais /ʁə.vɑ̃.ʃɛ/	revanchais /ʁə.vɑ̃.ʃɛ/	revanchait /ʁə.vɑ̃.ʃɛ/	revanchions /ʁə.vɑ̃.ʃjɔ̃/	revanchiez /ʁə.vɑ̃.ʃje/	revanchaient /ʁə.vɑ̃.ʃɛ/
	past historic2	revanchai /ʁə.vɑ̃.ʃe/	revanchas /ʁə.vɑ̃.ʃa/	revancha /ʁə.vɑ̃.ʃa/	revanchâmes /ʁə.vɑ̃.ʃam/	revanchâtes /ʁə.vɑ̃.ʃat/	revanchèrent /ʁə.vɑ̃.ʃɛʁ/
	future	revancherai /ʁə.vɑ̃ʃ.ʁe/	revancheras /ʁə.vɑ̃ʃ.ʁa/	revanchera /ʁə.vɑ̃ʃ.ʁa/	revancherons /ʁə.vɑ̃ʃ.ʁɔ̃/	revancherez /ʁə.vɑ̃ʃ.ʁe/	revancheront /ʁə.vɑ̃ʃ.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	revancherais /ʁə.vɑ̃ʃ.ʁɛ/	revancherais /ʁə.vɑ̃ʃ.ʁɛ/	revancherait /ʁə.vɑ̃ʃ.ʁɛ/	revancherions /ʁə.vɑ̃.ʃə.ʁjɔ̃/	revancheriez /ʁə.vɑ̃.ʃə.ʁje/	revancheraient /ʁə.vɑ̃ʃ.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	revanche /ʁə.vɑ̃ʃ/	revanches /ʁə.vɑ̃ʃ/	revanche /ʁə.vɑ̃ʃ/	revanchions /ʁə.vɑ̃.ʃjɔ̃/	revanchiez /ʁə.vɑ̃.ʃje/	revanchent /ʁə.vɑ̃ʃ/
	imperfect2	revanchasse /ʁə.vɑ̃.ʃas/	revanchasses /ʁə.vɑ̃.ʃas/	revanchât /ʁə.vɑ̃.ʃa/	revanchassions /ʁə.vɑ̃.ʃa.sjɔ̃/	revanchassiez /ʁə.vɑ̃.ʃa.sje/	revanchassent /ʁə.vɑ̃.ʃas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	revanche /ʁə.vɑ̃ʃ/	—	revanchons /ʁə.vɑ̃.ʃɔ̃/	revanchez /ʁə.vɑ̃.ʃe/	—
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

• revanche

Descendants

• German: revanchieren

Further reading

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