redevoir
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
Verb
redevoir
- to owe again
- Vous me redevez cinq euros - you owe me five euros again
- (rare or obsolete) to have to again
Usage notes
- It's more usual in contemporary French to use devoir with re- in front of the verb, or use à nouveau or de nouveau.
- The nonstandard past participle redû is sometimes found, formed by analogy with the past participle dû of devoir (whose circumflex is present solely to distinguish the word from du).
Conjugation
Conjugation of redevoir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | redevoir | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | redevant /ʁə.d(ə).vɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | redu /ʁə.dy/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | redois /ʁə.dwa/ |
redois /ʁə.dwa/ |
redoit /ʁə.dwa/ |
redevons /ʁə.d(ə).vɔ̃/ |
redevez /ʁə.d(ə).ve/ |
redoivent /ʁə.dwav/ |
| imperfect | redevais /ʁə.d(ə).vɛ/ |
redevais /ʁə.d(ə).vɛ/ |
redevait /ʁə.d(ə).vɛ/ |
redevions /ʁə.də.vjɔ̃/ |
redeviez /ʁə.də.vje/ |
redevaient /ʁə.d(ə).vɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | redus /ʁə.dy/ |
redus /ʁə.dy/ |
redut /ʁə.dy/ |
redûmes /ʁə.dym/ |
redûtes /ʁə.dyt/ |
redurent /ʁə.dyʁ/ | |
| future | redevrai /ʁə.də.vʁe/ |
redevras /ʁə.də.vʁa/ |
redevra /ʁə.də.vʁa/ |
redevrons /ʁə.də.vʁɔ̃/ |
redevrez /ʁə.də.vʁe/ |
redevront /ʁə.də.vʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | redevrais /ʁə.də.vʁɛ/ |
redevrais /ʁə.də.vʁɛ/ |
redevrait /ʁə.də.vʁɛ/ |
redevrions /ʁə.də.vʁi.jɔ̃/ |
redevriez /ʁə.də.vʁi.je/ |
redevraient /ʁə.də.vʁɛ/ | |
| (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 | redoive /ʁə.dwav/ |
redoives /ʁə.dwav/ |
redoive /ʁə.dwav/ |
redevions /ʁə.də.vjɔ̃/ |
redeviez /ʁə.də.vje/ |
redoivent /ʁə.dwav/ |
| imperfect2 | redusse /ʁə.dys/ |
redusses /ʁə.dys/ |
redût /ʁə.dy/ |
redussions /ʁə.dy.sjɔ̃/ |
redussiez /ʁə.dy.sje/ |
redussent /ʁə.dys/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | redois /ʁə.dwa/ |
— | redevons /ʁə.d(ə).vɔ̃/ |
redevez /ʁə.d(ə).ve/ |
— | |
| 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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Further reading
- “redevoir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.