rallumer

French

Etymology

From re- +‎ allumer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁa.ly.me/

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Verb

rallumer

1. (transitive) to relight
2. (transitive, figuratively) to rekindle, revive

Conjugation

Conjugation of rallumer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	rallumer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	rallumant /ʁa.ly.mɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		rallumé /ʁa.ly.me/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	rallume /ʁa.lym/	rallumes /ʁa.lym/	rallume /ʁa.lym/	rallumons /ʁa.ly.mɔ̃/	rallumez /ʁa.ly.me/	rallument /ʁa.lym/
	imperfect	rallumais /ʁa.ly.mɛ/	rallumais /ʁa.ly.mɛ/	rallumait /ʁa.ly.mɛ/	rallumions /ʁa.ly.mjɔ̃/	rallumiez /ʁa.ly.mje/	rallumaient /ʁa.ly.mɛ/
	past historic2	rallumai /ʁa.ly.me/	rallumas /ʁa.ly.ma/	ralluma /ʁa.ly.ma/	rallumâmes /ʁa.ly.mam/	rallumâtes /ʁa.ly.mat/	rallumèrent /ʁa.ly.mɛʁ/
	future	rallumerai /ʁa.lym.ʁe/	rallumeras /ʁa.lym.ʁa/	rallumera /ʁa.lym.ʁa/	rallumerons /ʁa.lym.ʁɔ̃/	rallumerez /ʁa.lym.ʁe/	rallumeront /ʁa.lym.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	rallumerais /ʁa.lym.ʁɛ/	rallumerais /ʁa.lym.ʁɛ/	rallumerait /ʁa.lym.ʁɛ/	rallumerions /ʁa.ly.mə.ʁjɔ̃/	rallumeriez /ʁa.ly.mə.ʁje/	rallumeraient /ʁa.lym.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	rallume /ʁa.lym/	rallumes /ʁa.lym/	rallume /ʁa.lym/	rallumions /ʁa.ly.mjɔ̃/	rallumiez /ʁa.ly.mje/	rallument /ʁa.lym/
	imperfect2	rallumasse /ʁa.ly.mas/	rallumasses /ʁa.ly.mas/	rallumât /ʁa.ly.ma/	rallumassions /ʁa.ly.ma.sjɔ̃/	rallumassiez /ʁa.ly.ma.sje/	rallumassent /ʁa.ly.mas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	rallume /ʁa.lym/	—	rallumons /ʁa.ly.mɔ̃/	rallumez /ʁa.ly.me/	—
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

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