rêvasser

French

Etymology

From rêver +‎ -asser.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁɛ.va.se/, /ʁe.va.se/

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Verb

rêvasser

1. (intransitive) to daydream

Conjugation

Conjugation of rêvasser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	rêvasser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	rêvassant /ʁɛ.va.sɑ̃/ or /ʁe.va.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		rêvassé /ʁɛ.va.se/ or /ʁe.va.se/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	rêvasse /ʁɛ.vas/ or /ʁe.vas/	rêvasses /ʁɛ.vas/ or /ʁe.vas/	rêvasse /ʁɛ.vas/ or /ʁe.vas/	rêvassons /ʁɛ.va.sɔ̃/ or /ʁe.va.sɔ̃/	rêvassez /ʁɛ.va.se/ or /ʁe.va.se/	rêvassent /ʁɛ.vas/ or /ʁe.vas/
	imperfect	rêvassais /ʁɛ.va.sɛ/ or /ʁe.va.sɛ/	rêvassais /ʁɛ.va.sɛ/ or /ʁe.va.sɛ/	rêvassait /ʁɛ.va.sɛ/ or /ʁe.va.sɛ/	rêvassions /ʁɛ.va.sjɔ̃/ or /ʁe.va.sjɔ̃/	rêvassiez /ʁɛ.va.sje/ or /ʁe.va.sje/	rêvassaient /ʁɛ.va.sɛ/ or /ʁe.va.sɛ/
	past historic2	rêvassai /ʁɛ.va.se/ or /ʁe.va.se/	rêvassas /ʁɛ.va.sa/ or /ʁe.va.sa/	rêvassa /ʁɛ.va.sa/ or /ʁe.va.sa/	rêvassâmes /ʁɛ.va.sam/ or /ʁe.va.sam/	rêvassâtes /ʁɛ.va.sat/ or /ʁe.va.sat/	rêvassèrent /ʁɛ.va.sɛʁ/ or /ʁe.va.sɛʁ/
	future	rêvasserai /ʁɛ.va.sʁe/ or /ʁe.va.sʁe/	rêvasseras /ʁɛ.va.sʁa/ or /ʁe.va.sʁa/	rêvassera /ʁɛ.va.sʁa/ or /ʁe.va.sʁa/	rêvasserons /ʁɛ.va.sʁɔ̃/ or /ʁe.va.sʁɔ̃/	rêvasserez /ʁɛ.va.sʁe/ or /ʁe.va.sʁe/	rêvasseront /ʁɛ.va.sʁɔ̃/ or /ʁe.va.sʁɔ̃/
	conditional	rêvasserais /ʁɛ.va.sʁɛ/ or /ʁe.va.sʁɛ/	rêvasserais /ʁɛ.va.sʁɛ/ or /ʁe.va.sʁɛ/	rêvasserait /ʁɛ.va.sʁɛ/ or /ʁe.va.sʁɛ/	rêvasserions /ʁɛ.va.sə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /ʁe.va.sə.ʁjɔ̃/	rêvasseriez /ʁɛ.va.sə.ʁje/ or /ʁe.va.sə.ʁje/	rêvasseraient /ʁɛ.va.sʁɛ/ or /ʁe.va.sʁɛ/
(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	rêvasse /ʁɛ.vas/ or /ʁe.vas/	rêvasses /ʁɛ.vas/ or /ʁe.vas/	rêvasse /ʁɛ.vas/ or /ʁe.vas/	rêvassions /ʁɛ.va.sjɔ̃/ or /ʁe.va.sjɔ̃/	rêvassiez /ʁɛ.va.sje/ or /ʁe.va.sje/	rêvassent /ʁɛ.vas/ or /ʁe.vas/
	imperfect2	rêvassasse /ʁɛ.va.sas/ or /ʁe.va.sas/	rêvassasses /ʁɛ.va.sas/ or /ʁe.va.sas/	rêvassât /ʁɛ.va.sa/ or /ʁe.va.sa/	rêvassassions /ʁɛ.va.sa.sjɔ̃/ or /ʁe.va.sa.sjɔ̃/	rêvassassiez /ʁɛ.va.sa.sje/ or /ʁe.va.sa.sje/	rêvassassent /ʁɛ.va.sas/ or /ʁe.va.sas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	rêvasse /ʁɛ.vas/ or /ʁe.vas/	—	rêvassons /ʁɛ.va.sɔ̃/ or /ʁe.va.sɔ̃/	rêvassez /ʁɛ.va.se/ or /ʁe.va.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).

Related terms

• rêvasserie

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• réservas, reversas, verseras