reteindre

French

Etymology

From re- +‎ teindre.

Pronunciation

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Verb

reteindre

1. (transitive) to redye
2. to recolor

Conjugation

This verb is conjugated like peindre. It uses the same endings as rendre or vendre, but its -nd- becomes -gn- before a vowel, and its past participle ends in 't' instead of a vowel.

Conjugation of reteindre (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	reteindre
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	reteignant /ʁə.tɛ.ɲɑ̃/ or /ʁə.te.ɲɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		reteint /ʁə.tɛ̃/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	reteins /ʁə.tɛ̃/	reteins /ʁə.tɛ̃/	reteint /ʁə.tɛ̃/	reteignons /ʁə.tɛ.ɲɔ̃/ or /ʁə.te.ɲɔ̃/	reteignez /ʁə.tɛ.ɲe/ or /ʁə.te.ɲe/	reteignent /ʁə.tɛɲ/
	imperfect	reteignais /ʁə.tɛ.ɲɛ/ or /ʁə.te.ɲɛ/	reteignais /ʁə.tɛ.ɲɛ/ or /ʁə.te.ɲɛ/	reteignait /ʁə.tɛ.ɲɛ/ or /ʁə.te.ɲɛ/	reteignions /ʁə.tɛ.ɲjɔ̃/ or /ʁə.te.ɲjɔ̃/	reteigniez /ʁə.tɛ.ɲje/ or /ʁə.te.ɲje/	reteignaient /ʁə.tɛ.ɲɛ/ or /ʁə.te.ɲɛ/
	past historic2	reteignis /ʁə.tɛ.ɲi/ or /ʁə.te.ɲi/	reteignis /ʁə.tɛ.ɲi/ or /ʁə.te.ɲi/	reteignit /ʁə.tɛ.ɲi/ or /ʁə.te.ɲi/	reteignîmes /ʁə.tɛ.ɲim/ or /ʁə.te.ɲim/	reteignîtes /ʁə.tɛ.ɲit/ or /ʁə.te.ɲit/	reteignirent /ʁə.tɛ.ɲiʁ/ or /ʁə.te.ɲiʁ/
	future	reteindrai /ʁə.tɛ̃.dʁe/	reteindras /ʁə.tɛ̃.dʁa/	reteindra /ʁə.tɛ̃.dʁa/	reteindrons /ʁə.tɛ̃.dʁɔ̃/	reteindrez /ʁə.tɛ̃.dʁe/	reteindront /ʁə.tɛ̃.dʁɔ̃/
	conditional	reteindrais /ʁə.tɛ̃.dʁɛ/	reteindrais /ʁə.tɛ̃.dʁɛ/	reteindrait /ʁə.tɛ̃.dʁɛ/	reteindrions /ʁə.tɛ̃.dʁi.jɔ̃/	reteindriez /ʁə.tɛ̃.dʁi.je/	reteindraient /ʁə.tɛ̃.dʁɛ/
(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	reteigne /ʁə.tɛɲ/	reteignes /ʁə.tɛɲ/	reteigne /ʁə.tɛɲ/	reteignions /ʁə.tɛ.ɲjɔ̃/ or /ʁə.te.ɲjɔ̃/	reteigniez /ʁə.tɛ.ɲje/ or /ʁə.te.ɲje/	reteignent /ʁə.tɛɲ/
	imperfect2	reteignisse /ʁə.tɛ.ɲis/ or /ʁə.te.ɲis/	reteignisses /ʁə.tɛ.ɲis/ or /ʁə.te.ɲis/	reteignît /ʁə.tɛ.ɲi/ or /ʁə.te.ɲi/	reteignissions /ʁə.tɛ.ɲi.sjɔ̃/ or /ʁə.te.ɲi.sjɔ̃/	reteignissiez /ʁə.tɛ.ɲi.sje/ or /ʁə.te.ɲi.sje/	reteignissent /ʁə.tɛ.ɲis/ or /ʁə.te.ɲis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	reteins /ʁə.tɛ̃/	—	reteignons /ʁə.tɛ.ɲɔ̃/ or /ʁə.te.ɲɔ̃/	reteignez /ʁə.tɛ.ɲe/ or /ʁə.te.ɲe/	—
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).

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• étreindre