revêtir
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Pronunciation [edit]
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Verb [edit]
revêtir
- to clothe, to dress (those in need or for ceremonial purposes)
- to cover, to blanket
- to put a protective cover on (such as wooden support for a trench)
- (figuratively) to take on, to assume (aspect, form or appearance)
- On a constaté que les saumons sauvages, les truites et les anguilles sont porteurs du virus qui semble revêtir à présent un caractère endémique, même dans l'environnement marin plus large. [1]
- Wild salmon, trout and eels have been found to carry the virus, which seems to be endemic, even in the wider marin environment.
- On a constaté que les saumons sauvages, les truites et les anguilles sont porteurs du virus qui semble revêtir à présent un caractère endémique, même dans l'environnement marin plus large. [1]
Conjugation [edit]
- This is an irregular verb of the third conjugation. Unlike regular -ir verbs, this conjugation does not include the infix -iss-.
Conjugation of revêtir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | revêtir | avoir revêtu | |||||
| gerund | en revêtant | en ayant revêtu | |||||
| present participle | revêtant | ||||||
| past participle | revêtu | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | revêts | revêts | revêt | revêtions | revêtez | revêtent |
| imperfect | revêtais | revêtais | revêtait | revêtions | revêtiez | revêtaient | |
| past historic1 | revêtis | revêtis | revêtit | revêtîmes | revêtîtes | revêtirent | |
| future | revêtirai | revêtiras | revêtira | revêtirons | revêtirez | revêtiront | |
| conditional | revêtirais | revêtirais | revêtirait | revêtirions | revêtiriez | revêtiraient | |
| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior1 | Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | revête | revêtes | revête | revêtions | revêtiez | revêtent |
| imperfect1 | revêtisse | revêtisses | revêtît | revêtissions | revêtissiez | revêtissent | |
| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | revêts | — | revêtons | revêtez | — | ||
| 1literary tenses | |||||||