rouvrir

French

Etymology

From r- +‎ ouvrir.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ʁu.vʁiʁ/
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Verb

rouvrir

to reopen, to open again

Conjugation

This verb is conjugated like ouvrir and offrir. It is conjugated like a regular -er verb in the present and imperfect indicative, present subjunctive, imperative, and present participle; it is conjugated like a regular -ir verb in the infinitive, future indicative, conditional, past historic, and imperfect subjunctive; and its past participle rouvert is irregular.

Conjugation of rouvrir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	compound	avoir + past participle
infinitive	simple	rouvrir
present participle or gerund¹	simple	rouvrant /ʁu.vʁɑ̃/
present participle or gerund¹	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		rouvert /ʁu.vɛʁ/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	rouvre /ʁuvʁ/	rouvres /ʁuvʁ/	rouvre /ʁuvʁ/	rouvrons /ʁu.vʁɔ̃/	rouvrez /ʁu.vʁe/	rouvrent /ʁuvʁ/
	imperfect	rouvrais /ʁu.vʁɛ/	rouvrais /ʁu.vʁɛ/	rouvrait /ʁu.vʁɛ/	rouvrions /ʁu.vʁi.jɔ̃/	rouvriez /ʁu.vʁi.je/	rouvraient /ʁu.vʁɛ/
	past historic²	rouvris /ʁu.vʁi/	rouvris /ʁu.vʁi/	rouvrit /ʁu.vʁi/	rouvrîmes /ʁu.vʁim/	rouvrîtes /ʁu.vʁit/	rouvrirent /ʁu.vʁiʁ/
	future	rouvrirai /ʁu.vʁi.ʁe/	rouvriras /ʁu.vʁi.ʁa/	rouvrira /ʁu.vʁi.ʁa/	rouvrirons /ʁu.vʁi.ʁɔ̃/	rouvrirez /ʁu.vʁi.ʁe/	rouvriront /ʁu.vʁi.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	rouvrirais /ʁu.vʁi.ʁɛ/	rouvrirais /ʁu.vʁi.ʁɛ/	rouvrirait /ʁu.vʁi.ʁɛ/	rouvririons /ʁu.vʁi.ʁjɔ̃/	rouvririez /ʁu.vʁi.ʁje/	rouvriraient /ʁu.vʁi.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	rouvre /ʁuvʁ/	rouvres /ʁuvʁ/	rouvre /ʁuvʁ/	rouvrions /ʁu.vʁi.jɔ̃/	rouvriez /ʁu.vʁi.je/	rouvrent /ʁuvʁ/
(simple tenses)	imperfect²	rouvrisse /ʁu.vʁis/	rouvrisses /ʁu.vʁis/	rouvrît /ʁu.vʁi/	rouvrissions /ʁu.vʁi.sjɔ̃/	rouvrissiez /ʁu.vʁi.sje/	rouvrissent /ʁu.vʁis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
(compound tenses)	pluperfect²	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	~~nous~~	~~vous~~	–
simple		—	rouvre /ʁuvʁ/	—	rouvrons /ʁu.vʁɔ̃/	rouvrez /ʁu.vʁe/	—
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).