revernir

French

Etymology

From re- +‎ vernir.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁə.vɛʁ.niʁ/

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• Homophone: revernirent

Verb

revernir

1. to revarnish (varnish again)

Conjugation

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 revernir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	revernir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	revernissant /ʁə.vɛʁ.ni.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		reverni /ʁə.vɛʁ.ni/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	revernis /ʁə.vɛʁ.ni/	revernis /ʁə.vɛʁ.ni/	revernit /ʁə.vɛʁ.ni/	revernissons /ʁə.vɛʁ.ni.sɔ̃/	revernissez /ʁə.vɛʁ.ni.se/	revernissent /ʁə.vɛʁ.nis/
	imperfect	revernissais /ʁə.vɛʁ.ni.sɛ/	revernissais /ʁə.vɛʁ.ni.sɛ/	revernissait /ʁə.vɛʁ.ni.sɛ/	revernissions /ʁə.vɛʁ.ni.sjɔ̃/	revernissiez /ʁə.vɛʁ.ni.sje/	revernissaient /ʁə.vɛʁ.ni.sɛ/
	past historic2	revernis /ʁə.vɛʁ.ni/	revernis /ʁə.vɛʁ.ni/	revernit /ʁə.vɛʁ.ni/	revernîmes /ʁə.vɛʁ.nim/	revernîtes /ʁə.vɛʁ.nit/	revernirent /ʁə.vɛʁ.niʁ/
	future	revernirai /ʁə.vɛʁ.ni.ʁe/	reverniras /ʁə.vɛʁ.ni.ʁa/	revernira /ʁə.vɛʁ.ni.ʁa/	revernirons /ʁə.vɛʁ.ni.ʁɔ̃/	revernirez /ʁə.vɛʁ.ni.ʁe/	reverniront /ʁə.vɛʁ.ni.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	revernirais /ʁə.vɛʁ.ni.ʁɛ/	revernirais /ʁə.vɛʁ.ni.ʁɛ/	revernirait /ʁə.vɛʁ.ni.ʁɛ/	revernirions /ʁə.vɛʁ.ni.ʁjɔ̃/	reverniriez /ʁə.vɛʁ.ni.ʁje/	reverniraient /ʁə.vɛʁ.ni.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	revernisse /ʁə.vɛʁ.nis/	revernisses /ʁə.vɛʁ.nis/	revernisse /ʁə.vɛʁ.nis/	revernissions /ʁə.vɛʁ.ni.sjɔ̃/	revernissiez /ʁə.vɛʁ.ni.sje/	revernissent /ʁə.vɛʁ.nis/
	imperfect2	revernisse /ʁə.vɛʁ.nis/	revernisses /ʁə.vɛʁ.nis/	revernît /ʁə.vɛʁ.ni/	revernissions /ʁə.vɛʁ.ni.sjɔ̃/	revernissiez /ʁə.vɛʁ.ni.sje/	revernissent /ʁə.vɛʁ.nis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	revernis /ʁə.vɛʁ.ni/	—	revernissons /ʁə.vɛʁ.ni.sɔ̃/	revernissez /ʁə.vɛʁ.ni.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: 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

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