revoir
Appearance
See also: Revoir
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From re- + voir, or from Latin revidere.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]revoir
- to see again
- to re-examine
Conjugation
[edit]Verbs derived from voir form their future and conditional forms using the root verr- instead of the vr- or voir- of other verbs.
Conjugation of revoir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | revoir | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | revoyant /ʁə.vwa.jɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | revu /ʁə.vy/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | revois /ʁə.vwa/ |
revois /ʁə.vwa/ |
revoit /ʁə.vwa/ |
revoyons /ʁə.vwa.jɔ̃/ |
revoyez /ʁə.vwa.je/ |
revoient /ʁə.vwa/ |
imperfect | revoyais /ʁə.vwa.jɛ/ |
revoyais /ʁə.vwa.jɛ/ |
revoyait /ʁə.vwa.jɛ/ |
revoyions /ʁə.vwaj.jɔ̃/ |
revoyiez /ʁə.vwaj.je/ |
revoyaient /ʁə.vwa.jɛ/ | |
past historic2 | revis /ʁə.vi/ |
revis /ʁə.vi/ |
revit /ʁə.vi/ |
revîmes /ʁə.vim/ |
revîtes /ʁə.vit/ |
revirent /ʁə.viʁ/ | |
future | reverrai /ʁə.vɛ.ʁe/ or /ʁə.ve.ʁe/ |
reverras /ʁə.vɛ.ʁa/ or /ʁə.ve.ʁa/ |
reverra /ʁə.vɛ.ʁa/ or /ʁə.ve.ʁa/ |
reverrons /ʁə.vɛ.ʁɔ̃/ or /ʁə.ve.ʁɔ̃/ |
reverrez /ʁə.vɛ.ʁe/ or /ʁə.ve.ʁe/ |
reverront /ʁə.vɛ.ʁɔ̃/ or /ʁə.ve.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | reverrais /ʁə.vɛ.ʁɛ/ or /ʁə.ve.ʁɛ/ |
reverrais /ʁə.vɛ.ʁɛ/ or /ʁə.ve.ʁɛ/ |
reverrait /ʁə.vɛ.ʁɛ/ or /ʁə.ve.ʁɛ/ |
reverrions /ʁə.vɛ.ʁjɔ̃/ or /ʁə.ve.ʁjɔ̃/ |
reverriez /ʁə.vɛ.ʁje/ or /ʁə.ve.ʁje/ |
reverraient /ʁə.vɛ.ʁɛ/ or /ʁə.ve.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 | revoie /ʁə.vwa/ |
revoies /ʁə.vwa/ |
revoie /ʁə.vwa/ |
revoyions /ʁə.vwaj.jɔ̃/ |
revoyiez /ʁə.vwaj.je/ |
revoient /ʁə.vwa/ |
imperfect2 | revisse /ʁə.vis/ |
revisses /ʁə.vis/ |
revît /ʁə.vi/ |
revissions /ʁə.vi.sjɔ̃/ |
revissiez /ʁə.vi.sje/ |
revissent /ʁə.vis/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | revois /ʁə.vwa/ |
— | revoyons /ʁə.vwa.jɔ̃/ |
revoyez /ʁə.vwa.je/ |
— | |
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). |
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “revoir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.