revenir
Catalan
Alternative forms
Etymology
Inherited from Old Catalan revenir, from Latin revenīre.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Central) [rə.βəˈni]
- IPA(key): (Balearic) [rə.vəˈni]
- IPA(key): (Valencia) [re.veˈniɾ]
- Rhymes: -i(ɾ)
Verb
revenir (first-person singular present revinc, first-person singular preterite revinguí, past participle revingut); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /e/
- to come again
- to come to be responsible
- 2023 August 14, Hydro-Québec, Power outages[1]:
- Il revient à l’occupant du lieu visé de protéger ses biens.
- It is the users’ responsibility to protect their property.
- to come to be responsible
- to return
- of a river, to rise in level
Conjugation
Derived terms
Related terms
References
- “revenir” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “revenir”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “revenir” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “revenir” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
French
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French revenir, from Old French revenir, from Latin revenīre (“come back, return”).
Pronunciation
Verb
revenir
- to come back, to return
- Je reviens de vacances. ― I'm coming back from holiday.
- Je n’ai pas l’intention de revenir à Paris. ― I am not planning on returning to Paris.
- 2018, Zaz, On s'en remet jamais:
- Est-ce que la lumière reviendra ? Est-ce qu’on retrouvera le sommeil ? Y aura-t-il un nouveau soleil, quelqu’un d’autre qui brillera ?
- Will the light return? Will we get back to sleep? Will there be a new sun, someone else who will shine?
- to grow back
- Les plumes reviennent à cet oiseau. ― This bird's feathers are growing back.
- to recur, to be mentioned repeatedly
- Les auteurs grecs et latins reviennent souvent dans ses écrits. ― Greek and Latin authors often recur in his writings.
- to come to mind, to be remembered
- Ce nom ne me revient pas. ― That name doesn't come to mind.
- (intransitive) to recant, to go back on [with sur ‘a decision, promise, etc.’]
- revenir sur sa décision ― to go back on one's decision
- revenir sur sa parole ― to go back on one's word
- (cooking, preceded by faire) to brown
- Mettez un peu de beurre et d’huile et faites revenir sur le gaz. ― Put in a bit of butter and oil and brown on the gas cooker.
- to go to as what is due
- Il paie à elle ce qui lui revenait après le divorce. ― He pays to her what was due to her after the divorce.
Conjugation
This is a verb in a group of -ir verbs. All verbs ending in -venir, such as convenir and devenir, are conjugated this way. Such verbs are the only verbs whose the past historic and subjunctive imperfect endings do not start in one of these thematic vowels (-a-, -i-, -u-).
infinitive | simple | revenir | |||||
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compound | être + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | revenant /ʁə.v(ə).nɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | étant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | revenu /ʁə.v(ə).ny/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | reviens /ʁə.vjɛ̃/ |
reviens /ʁə.vjɛ̃/ |
revient /ʁə.vjɛ̃/ |
revenons /ʁə.v(ə).nɔ̃/ |
revenez /ʁə.v(ə).ne/ |
reviennent /ʁə.vjɛn/ |
imperfect | revenais /ʁə.v(ə).nɛ/ |
revenais /ʁə.v(ə).nɛ/ |
revenait /ʁə.v(ə).nɛ/ |
revenions /ʁə.və.njɔ̃/ |
reveniez /ʁə.və.nje/ |
revenaient /ʁə.v(ə).nɛ/ | |
past historic2 | revins /ʁə.vɛ̃/ |
revins /ʁə.vɛ̃/ |
revint /ʁə.vɛ̃/ |
revînmes /ʁə.vɛ̃m/ |
revîntes /ʁə.vɛ̃t/ |
revinrent /ʁə.vɛ̃ʁ/ | |
future | reviendrai /ʁə.vjɛ̃.dʁe/ |
reviendras /ʁə.vjɛ̃.dʁa/ |
reviendra /ʁə.vjɛ̃.dʁa/ |
reviendrons /ʁə.vjɛ̃.dʁɔ̃/ |
reviendrez /ʁə.vjɛ̃.dʁe/ |
reviendront /ʁə.vjɛ̃.dʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | reviendrais /ʁə.vjɛ̃.dʁɛ/ |
reviendrais /ʁə.vjɛ̃.dʁɛ/ |
reviendrait /ʁə.vjɛ̃.dʁɛ/ |
reviendrions /ʁə.vjɛ̃.dʁi.jɔ̃/ |
reviendriez /ʁə.vjɛ̃.dʁi.je/ |
reviendraient /ʁə.vjɛ̃.dʁɛ/ | |
(compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of être + past participle | |||||
pluperfect | imperfect indicative of être + past participle | ||||||
past anterior2 | past historic of être + past participle | ||||||
future perfect | future of être + past participle | ||||||
conditional perfect | conditional of être + past participle | ||||||
subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | revienne /ʁə.vjɛn/ |
reviennes /ʁə.vjɛn/ |
revienne /ʁə.vjɛn/ |
revenions /ʁə.və.njɔ̃/ |
reveniez /ʁə.və.nje/ |
reviennent /ʁə.vjɛn/ |
imperfect2 | revinsse /ʁə.vɛ̃s/ |
revinsses /ʁə.vɛ̃s/ |
revînt /ʁə.vɛ̃/ |
revinssions /ʁə.vɛ̃.sjɔ̃/ |
revinssiez /ʁə.vɛ̃.sje/ |
revinssent /ʁə.vɛ̃s/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of être + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of être + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | reviens /ʁə.vjɛ̃/ |
— | revenons /ʁə.v(ə).nɔ̃/ |
revenez /ʁə.v(ə).ne/ |
— | |
compound | — | simple imperative of être + past participle | — | simple imperative of être + past participle | simple imperative of être + 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
See also
Further reading
- “revenir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
Middle French
Etymology
From Old French revenir.
Verb
revenir
Descendants
- French: revenir
Old French
Etymology
First attested circa 980 in La Vie de Saint Léger, inherited from Latin revenīre, present active infinitive of reveniō.
Verb
revenir
- to come back, to return
- c. 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Yvain ou le Chevalier au Lion:
- En la cambre revient mout tost
- [She] quickly came back into the room
Conjugation
This verb conjugates as a third-group verb. This verb has a stressed present stem revien distinct from the unstressed stem reven, as well as other irregularities. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.
simple | compound | ||||||
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infinitive | revenir | estre revenu | |||||
gerund | en revenant | gerund of estre + past participle | |||||
present participle | revenant | ||||||
past participle | revenu | ||||||
person | singular | plural | |||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | jo | tu | il | nos | vos | il | |
simple tenses |
present | revieng, revien | reviens | revient | revenons | revenez | revienent |
imperfect | revenoie, reveneie | revenoies, reveneies | revenoit, reveneit | reveniiens, reveniens | reveniiez, reveniez | revenoient, reveneient | |
preterite | revin | revenis | revint | revenimes | revenistes | revindrent, revinrent | |
future | revendrai | revendras | revendra | revendrons | revendroiz, revendreiz, revendrez | revendront | |
conditional | revendroie, revendreie | revendroies, revendreies | revendroit, revendreit | revendriiens, revendriens | revendriiez, revendriez | revendroient, revendreient | |
compound tenses |
present perfect | present tense of estre + past participle | |||||
pluperfect | imperfect tense of estre + past participle | ||||||
past anterior | preterite tense of estre + past participle | ||||||
future perfect | future tense of estre + past participle | ||||||
conditional perfect | conditional tense of estre + past participle | ||||||
subjunctive | que jo | que tu | qu’il | que nos | que vos | qu’il | |
simple tenses |
present | reviegne | reviegnes | reviegne | reviegniens, reviegnons | reviegniez | reviegnent |
imperfect | revenisse | revenisses | revenist | revenissons, revenissiens | revenissoiz, revenissez, revenissiez | revenissent | |
compound tenses |
past | present subjunctive of estre + past participle | |||||
pluperfect | imperfect subjunctive of estre + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | tu | – | nos | vos | – | |
— | revien | — | revenons | revenez | — |
Descendants
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (revenir, supplement)
- revenir on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
Spanish
Etymology
From re- + venir, or from Latin revenīre.
Pronunciation
Verb
revenir (first-person singular present revengo, first-person singular preterite revine, past participle revenido)
- (intransitive) to return, revert
- (pronominal) to shrink, reduce
- (pronominal) to go bad, spoil, turn sour (of food)
Conjugation
Further reading
- “revenir”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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