réveiller

French

Etymology

re- +‎ éveiller, or from Old French resveillier.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁe.vɛ.je/ ~ /ʁe.ve.je/

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Verb

réveiller

1. (transitive) To awaken

   Réveillez les soldats, on nous attaque !

   Awaken the soldiers, we're being attacked.

2. (reflexive) To wake up

   Je me réveille à 9 heures.

   I wake up at 9 o'clock.

Conjugation

Conjugation of réveiller (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	réveiller
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	réveillant /ʁe.vɛ.jɑ̃/ or /ʁe.ve.jɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		réveillé /ʁe.vɛ.je/ or /ʁe.ve.je/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	réveille /ʁe.vɛj/	réveilles /ʁe.vɛj/	réveille /ʁe.vɛj/	réveillons /ʁe.vɛ.jɔ̃/ or /ʁe.ve.jɔ̃/	réveillez /ʁe.vɛ.je/ or /ʁe.ve.je/	réveillent /ʁe.vɛj/
	imperfect	réveillais /ʁe.vɛ.jɛ/ or /ʁe.ve.jɛ/	réveillais /ʁe.vɛ.jɛ/ or /ʁe.ve.jɛ/	réveillait /ʁe.vɛ.jɛ/ or /ʁe.ve.jɛ/	réveillions /ʁe.vɛj.jɔ̃/	réveilliez /ʁe.vɛj.je/	réveillaient /ʁe.vɛ.jɛ/ or /ʁe.ve.jɛ/
	past historic2	réveillai /ʁe.vɛ.je/ or /ʁe.ve.je/	réveillas /ʁe.vɛ.ja/ or /ʁe.ve.ja/	réveilla /ʁe.vɛ.ja/ or /ʁe.ve.ja/	réveillâmes /ʁe.vɛ.jam/ or /ʁe.ve.jam/	réveillâtes /ʁe.vɛ.jat/ or /ʁe.ve.jat/	réveillèrent /ʁe.vɛ.jɛʁ/ or /ʁe.ve.jɛʁ/
	future	réveillerai /ʁe.vɛj.ʁe/	réveilleras /ʁe.vɛj.ʁa/	réveillera /ʁe.vɛj.ʁa/	réveillerons /ʁe.vɛj.ʁɔ̃/	réveillerez /ʁe.vɛj.ʁe/	réveilleront /ʁe.vɛj.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	réveillerais /ʁe.vɛj.ʁɛ/	réveillerais /ʁe.vɛj.ʁɛ/	réveillerait /ʁe.vɛj.ʁɛ/	réveillerions /ʁe.vɛ.jə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /ʁe.ve.jə.ʁjɔ̃/	réveilleriez /ʁe.vɛ.jə.ʁje/ or /ʁe.ve.jə.ʁje/	réveilleraient /ʁe.vɛj.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	réveille /ʁe.vɛj/	réveilles /ʁe.vɛj/	réveille /ʁe.vɛj/	réveillions /ʁe.vɛj.jɔ̃/	réveilliez /ʁe.vɛj.je/	réveillent /ʁe.vɛj/
	imperfect2	réveillasse /ʁe.vɛ.jas/ or /ʁe.ve.jas/	réveillasses /ʁe.vɛ.jas/ or /ʁe.ve.jas/	réveillât /ʁe.vɛ.ja/ or /ʁe.ve.ja/	réveillassions /ʁe.vɛ.ja.sjɔ̃/ or /ʁe.ve.ja.sjɔ̃/	réveillassiez /ʁe.vɛ.ja.sje/ or /ʁe.ve.ja.sje/	réveillassent /ʁe.vɛ.jas/ or /ʁe.ve.jas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	réveille /ʁe.vɛj/	—	réveillons /ʁe.vɛ.jɔ̃/ or /ʁe.ve.jɔ̃/	réveillez /ʁe.vɛ.je/ or /ʁe.ve.je/	—
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

• réveil
• réveille-matin
• réveillon

Further reading

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