rebondir

French

Etymology

From re- +‎ bondir.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁə.bɔ̃.diʁ/

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Verb

rebondir

1. to bounce, rebound
2. (figuratively) to pick oneself up, to get back on one's feet

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 rebondir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	rebondir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	rebondissant /ʁə.bɔ̃.di.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		rebondi /ʁə.bɔ̃.di/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	rebondis /ʁə.bɔ̃.di/	rebondis /ʁə.bɔ̃.di/	rebondit /ʁə.bɔ̃.di/	rebondissons /ʁə.bɔ̃.di.sɔ̃/	rebondissez /ʁə.bɔ̃.di.se/	rebondissent /ʁə.bɔ̃.dis/
	imperfect	rebondissais /ʁə.bɔ̃.di.sɛ/	rebondissais /ʁə.bɔ̃.di.sɛ/	rebondissait /ʁə.bɔ̃.di.sɛ/	rebondissions /ʁə.bɔ̃.di.sjɔ̃/	rebondissiez /ʁə.bɔ̃.di.sje/	rebondissaient /ʁə.bɔ̃.di.sɛ/
	past historic2	rebondis /ʁə.bɔ̃.di/	rebondis /ʁə.bɔ̃.di/	rebondit /ʁə.bɔ̃.di/	rebondîmes /ʁə.bɔ̃.dim/	rebondîtes /ʁə.bɔ̃.dit/	rebondirent /ʁə.bɔ̃.diʁ/
	future	rebondirai /ʁə.bɔ̃.di.ʁe/	rebondiras /ʁə.bɔ̃.di.ʁa/	rebondira /ʁə.bɔ̃.di.ʁa/	rebondirons /ʁə.bɔ̃.di.ʁɔ̃/	rebondirez /ʁə.bɔ̃.di.ʁe/	rebondiront /ʁə.bɔ̃.di.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	rebondirais /ʁə.bɔ̃.di.ʁɛ/	rebondirais /ʁə.bɔ̃.di.ʁɛ/	rebondirait /ʁə.bɔ̃.di.ʁɛ/	rebondirions /ʁə.bɔ̃.di.ʁjɔ̃/	rebondiriez /ʁə.bɔ̃.di.ʁje/	rebondiraient /ʁə.bɔ̃.di.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	rebondisse /ʁə.bɔ̃.dis/	rebondisses /ʁə.bɔ̃.dis/	rebondisse /ʁə.bɔ̃.dis/	rebondissions /ʁə.bɔ̃.di.sjɔ̃/	rebondissiez /ʁə.bɔ̃.di.sje/	rebondissent /ʁə.bɔ̃.dis/
	imperfect2	rebondisse /ʁə.bɔ̃.dis/	rebondisses /ʁə.bɔ̃.dis/	rebondît /ʁə.bɔ̃.di/	rebondissions /ʁə.bɔ̃.di.sjɔ̃/	rebondissiez /ʁə.bɔ̃.di.sje/	rebondissent /ʁə.bɔ̃.dis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	rebondis /ʁə.bɔ̃.di/	—	rebondissons /ʁə.bɔ̃.di.sɔ̃/	rebondissez /ʁə.bɔ̃.di.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).

Derived terms

• rebondissement

Further reading

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