rebuter

French

Etymology

re- +‎ buter

Pronunciation

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Verb

rebuter

1. to reject; turn down
2. to send someone packing; to kick to the curb
3. to disgust; to put off

Conjugation

Conjugation of rebuter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	rebuter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	rebutant /ʁə.by.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		rebuté /ʁə.by.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	rebute /ʁə.byt/	rebutes /ʁə.byt/	rebute /ʁə.byt/	rebutons /ʁə.by.tɔ̃/	rebutez /ʁə.by.te/	rebutent /ʁə.byt/
	imperfect	rebutais /ʁə.by.tɛ/	rebutais /ʁə.by.tɛ/	rebutait /ʁə.by.tɛ/	rebutions /ʁə.by.tjɔ̃/	rebutiez /ʁə.by.tje/	rebutaient /ʁə.by.tɛ/
	past historic2	rebutai /ʁə.by.te/	rebutas /ʁə.by.ta/	rebuta /ʁə.by.ta/	rebutâmes /ʁə.by.tam/	rebutâtes /ʁə.by.tat/	rebutèrent /ʁə.by.tɛʁ/
	future	rebuterai /ʁə.by.tʁe/	rebuteras /ʁə.by.tʁa/	rebutera /ʁə.by.tʁa/	rebuterons /ʁə.by.tʁɔ̃/	rebuterez /ʁə.by.tʁe/	rebuteront /ʁə.by.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	rebuterais /ʁə.by.tʁɛ/	rebuterais /ʁə.by.tʁɛ/	rebuterait /ʁə.by.tʁɛ/	rebuterions /ʁə.by.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	rebuteriez /ʁə.by.tə.ʁje/	rebuteraient /ʁə.by.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	rebute /ʁə.byt/	rebutes /ʁə.byt/	rebute /ʁə.byt/	rebutions /ʁə.by.tjɔ̃/	rebutiez /ʁə.by.tje/	rebutent /ʁə.byt/
	imperfect2	rebutasse /ʁə.by.tas/	rebutasses /ʁə.by.tas/	rebutât /ʁə.by.ta/	rebutassions /ʁə.by.ta.sjɔ̃/	rebutassiez /ʁə.by.ta.sje/	rebutassent /ʁə.by.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	rebute /ʁə.byt/	—	rebutons /ʁə.by.tɔ̃/	rebutez /ʁə.by.te/	—
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

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