rêver
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See also: rever
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French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle French resver, from Old French resver (“to consider, reflect, be delirious”), of uncertain origin. The Trésor de la langue française informatisé links it back either to an unattested *esver (“to wander”) or to Latin *reexvadō, from re- + ex- + evadō[1]. The Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch links it back to *reexvagus, hence the same as the second proposal by the Trésor de la langue française informatisé[2].
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
rêver
- to dream
Conjugation[edit]
Conjugation of rêver (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | rêver | avoir rêvé | |||||
| gerund | en rêvant | en ayant rêvé | |||||
| present participle | rêvant /ʁɛ.vɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | rêvé /ʁɛ.ve/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | rêve /ʁɛv/ |
rêves /ʁɛv/ |
rêve /ʁɛv/ |
rêvons /ʁɛ.vɔ̃/ |
rêvez /ʁɛ.ve/ |
rêvent /ʁɛv/ |
| imperfect | rêvais /ʁɛ.vɛ/ |
rêvais /ʁɛ.vɛ/ |
rêvait /ʁɛ.vɛ/ |
rêvions /ʁɛ.vjɔ̃/ |
rêviez /ʁɛ.vje/ |
rêvaient /ʁɛ.vɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | rêvai /ʁɛ.ve/ |
rêvas /ʁɛ.va/ |
rêva /ʁɛ.va/ |
rêvâmes /ʁɛ.vam/ |
rêvâtes /ʁɛ.vat/ |
rêvèrent /ʁɛ.vɛʁ/ |
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| future | rêverai /ʁɛ.v(ə).ʁe/ |
rêveras /ʁɛ.v(ə).ʁa/ |
rêvera /ʁɛ.v(ə).ʁa/ |
rêverons /ʁɛ.v(ə).ʁɔ̃/ |
rêverez /ʁɛ.v(ə).ʁe/ |
rêveront /ʁɛ.v(ə).ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | rêverais /ʁɛ.v(ə).ʁɛ/ |
rêverais /ʁɛ.v(ə).ʁɛ/ |
rêverait /ʁɛ.v(ə).ʁɛ/ |
rêverions /ʁɛ.və.ʁjɔ̃/ |
rêveriez /ʁɛ.və.ʁje/ |
rêveraient /ʁɛ.v(ə).ʁɛ/ |
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| 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 | rêve /ʁɛv/ |
rêves /ʁɛv/ |
rêve /ʁɛv/ |
rêvions /ʁɛ.vjɔ̃/ |
rêviez /ʁɛ.vje/ |
rêvent /ʁɛv/ |
| imperfect1 | rêvasse /ʁɛ.vas/ |
rêvasses /ʁɛ.vas/ |
rêvât /ʁɛ.va/ |
rêvassions /ʁɛ.va.sjɔ̃/ |
rêvassiez /ʁɛ.va.sje/ |
rêvassent /ʁɛ.vas/ |
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| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | rêve /ʁɛv/ |
— | rêvons /ʁɛ.vɔ̃/ |
rêvez /ʁɛ.ve/ |
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| 1literary tenses | |||||||
Derived terms[edit]
- rêve noun
References[edit]
- ^ “rêver” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
- ^ (fr)(de) *reexvagus in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (Walther von Wartburg, 2002)
External links[edit]
- “rêver” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
