repaître

See also: repaitre

French

Etymology

From re- +‎ paître.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁə.pɛtʁ/

• Audio:

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Verb

repaître

1. (transitive, obsolete) to feed
2. (transitive, obsolete, figurative) to glut, to sate
   • 1640, Pierre Corneille, Horace, act 4, scene 7:

     Viens repaître tes yeux d’un spectacle si doux

     Come feast your eyes on this touching scene

3. (intransitive, obsolete) to eat
4. (literary, takes a reflexive pronoun) to feed on, to feast on
   • 2020, Leigh Bardugo, Grisha, page 23:

     Longues griffes crasseuses, ailes tannées et plusieurs rangées de dents affûtées comme des rasoirs pour se repaître de chair humaine.

     Long, filthy claws, leathery wings, and rows of razor-sharp teeth for feasting on human flesh.

Conjugation

This verb is not conjugated in certain tenses.

Conjugation of repaître (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	repaître
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	repaissant /ʁə.pɛ.sɑ̃/ or /ʁə.pe.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		repu /ʁə.py/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	repais /ʁə.pɛ/	repais /ʁə.pɛ/	repaît /ʁə.pɛ/	repaissons /ʁə.pɛ.sɔ̃/ or /ʁə.pe.sɔ̃/	repaissez /ʁə.pɛ.se/ or /ʁə.pe.se/	repaissent /ʁə.pɛs/
	imperfect	repaissais /ʁə.pɛ.sɛ/ or /ʁə.pe.sɛ/	repaissais /ʁə.pɛ.sɛ/ or /ʁə.pe.sɛ/	repaissait /ʁə.pɛ.sɛ/ or /ʁə.pe.sɛ/	repaissions /ʁə.pɛ.sjɔ̃/ or /ʁə.pe.sjɔ̃/	repaissiez /ʁə.pɛ.sje/ or /ʁə.pe.sje/	repaissaient /ʁə.pɛ.sɛ/ or /ʁə.pe.sɛ/
	past historic2	repus /ʁə.py/	repus /ʁə.py/	reput /ʁə.py/	repûmes /ʁə.pym/	repûtes /ʁə.pyt/	repurent /ʁə.pyʁ/
	future	repaîtrai /ʁə.pɛ.tʁe/ or /ʁə.pe.tʁe/	repaîtras /ʁə.pɛ.tʁa/ or /ʁə.pe.tʁa/	repaîtra /ʁə.pɛ.tʁa/ or /ʁə.pe.tʁa/	repaîtrons /ʁə.pɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /ʁə.pe.tʁɔ̃/	repaîtrez /ʁə.pɛ.tʁe/ or /ʁə.pe.tʁe/	repaîtront /ʁə.pɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /ʁə.pe.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	repaîtrais /ʁə.pɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ʁə.pe.tʁɛ/	repaîtrais /ʁə.pɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ʁə.pe.tʁɛ/	repaîtrait /ʁə.pɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ʁə.pe.tʁɛ/	repaîtrions /ʁə.pɛ.tʁi.jɔ̃/ or /ʁə.pe.tʁi.jɔ̃/	repaîtriez /ʁə.pɛ.tʁi.je/ or /ʁə.pe.tʁi.je/	repaîtraient /ʁə.pɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ʁə.pe.tʁɛ/
(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	repaisse /ʁə.pɛs/	repaisses /ʁə.pɛs/	repaisse /ʁə.pɛs/	repaissions /ʁə.pɛ.sjɔ̃/ or /ʁə.pe.sjɔ̃/	repaissiez /ʁə.pɛ.sje/ or /ʁə.pe.sje/	repaissent /ʁə.pɛs/
	imperfect2	repusse /ʁə.pys/	repusses /ʁə.pys/	repût /ʁə.py/	repussions /ʁə.py.sjɔ̃/	repussiez /ʁə.py.sje/	repussent /ʁə.pys/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	repais /ʁə.pɛ/	—	repaissons /ʁə.pɛ.sɔ̃/ or /ʁə.pe.sɔ̃/	repaissez /ʁə.pɛ.se/ or /ʁə.pe.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

• repu

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• prêterai, repartie, répartie, repatrie, repatrié, repérait