reverdir
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]reverdir
- to turn green again (of trees, plants, etc.)
Conjugation
[edit]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 reverdir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | reverdir | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | reverdissant /ʁə.vɛʁ.di.sɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | reverdi /ʁə.vɛʁ.di/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | reverdis /ʁə.vɛʁ.di/ |
reverdis /ʁə.vɛʁ.di/ |
reverdit /ʁə.vɛʁ.di/ |
reverdissons /ʁə.vɛʁ.di.sɔ̃/ |
reverdissez /ʁə.vɛʁ.di.se/ |
reverdissent /ʁə.vɛʁ.dis/ |
| imperfect | reverdissais /ʁə.vɛʁ.di.sɛ/ |
reverdissais /ʁə.vɛʁ.di.sɛ/ |
reverdissait /ʁə.vɛʁ.di.sɛ/ |
reverdissions /ʁə.vɛʁ.di.sjɔ̃/ |
reverdissiez /ʁə.vɛʁ.di.sje/ |
reverdissaient /ʁə.vɛʁ.di.sɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | reverdis /ʁə.vɛʁ.di/ |
reverdis /ʁə.vɛʁ.di/ |
reverdit /ʁə.vɛʁ.di/ |
reverdîmes /ʁə.vɛʁ.dim/ |
reverdîtes /ʁə.vɛʁ.dit/ |
reverdirent /ʁə.vɛʁ.diʁ/ | |
| future | reverdirai /ʁə.vɛʁ.di.ʁe/ |
reverdiras /ʁə.vɛʁ.di.ʁa/ |
reverdira /ʁə.vɛʁ.di.ʁa/ |
reverdirons /ʁə.vɛʁ.di.ʁɔ̃/ |
reverdirez /ʁə.vɛʁ.di.ʁe/ |
reverdiront /ʁə.vɛʁ.di.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | reverdirais /ʁə.vɛʁ.di.ʁɛ/ |
reverdirais /ʁə.vɛʁ.di.ʁɛ/ |
reverdirait /ʁə.vɛʁ.di.ʁɛ/ |
reverdirions /ʁə.vɛʁ.di.ʁjɔ̃/ |
reverdiriez /ʁə.vɛʁ.di.ʁje/ |
reverdiraient /ʁə.vɛʁ.di.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 | reverdisse /ʁə.vɛʁ.dis/ |
reverdisses /ʁə.vɛʁ.dis/ |
reverdisse /ʁə.vɛʁ.dis/ |
reverdissions /ʁə.vɛʁ.di.sjɔ̃/ |
reverdissiez /ʁə.vɛʁ.di.sje/ |
reverdissent /ʁə.vɛʁ.dis/ |
| imperfect2 | reverdisse /ʁə.vɛʁ.dis/ |
reverdisses /ʁə.vɛʁ.dis/ |
reverdît /ʁə.vɛʁ.di/ |
reverdissions /ʁə.vɛʁ.di.sjɔ̃/ |
reverdissiez /ʁə.vɛʁ.di.sje/ |
reverdissent /ʁə.vɛʁ.dis/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | reverdis /ʁə.vɛʁ.di/ |
— | reverdissons /ʁə.vɛʁ.di.sɔ̃/ |
reverdissez /ʁə.vɛʁ.di.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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Further reading
[edit]- “reverdir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Old Occitan
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From re- + verdir. Gallo-Romance cognate with Old French reverdir.
Verb
[edit]reverdir
- to turn green again (of trees, plants, etc.)