refondre

See also: refondré

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin refundere, present active infinitive of refundō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [rəˈfɔn.dɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [reˈfɔn.dɾe]

Verb

refondre (first-person singular present refonc, first-person singular preterite refonguí, past participle refós)

1. to melt down again, to recast
2. to redo entirely, to remake from scratch

Related terms

• fondre

Further reading

• “refondre” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “refondre”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “refondre” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “refondre” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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French

Etymology

From re- +‎ fondre

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁə.fɔ̃dʁ/

Verb

refondre

1. to remelt
2. (metallurgy) to resmelt
3. to remake from scratch

Conjugation

Conjugation of refondre (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	refondre
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	refondant /ʁə.fɔ̃.dɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		refondu /ʁə.fɔ̃.dy/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	refonds /ʁə.fɔ̃/	refonds /ʁə.fɔ̃/	refond /ʁə.fɔ̃/	refondons /ʁə.fɔ̃.dɔ̃/	refondez /ʁə.fɔ̃.de/	refondent /ʁə.fɔ̃d/
	imperfect	refondais /ʁə.fɔ̃.dɛ/	refondais /ʁə.fɔ̃.dɛ/	refondait /ʁə.fɔ̃.dɛ/	refondions /ʁə.fɔ̃.djɔ̃/	refondiez /ʁə.fɔ̃.dje/	refondaient /ʁə.fɔ̃.dɛ/
	past historic2	refondis /ʁə.fɔ̃.di/	refondis /ʁə.fɔ̃.di/	refondit /ʁə.fɔ̃.di/	refondîmes /ʁə.fɔ̃.dim/	refondîtes /ʁə.fɔ̃.dit/	refondirent /ʁə.fɔ̃.diʁ/
	future	refondrai /ʁə.fɔ̃.dʁe/	refondras /ʁə.fɔ̃.dʁa/	refondra /ʁə.fɔ̃.dʁa/	refondrons /ʁə.fɔ̃.dʁɔ̃/	refondrez /ʁə.fɔ̃.dʁe/	refondront /ʁə.fɔ̃.dʁɔ̃/
	conditional	refondrais /ʁə.fɔ̃.dʁɛ/	refondrais /ʁə.fɔ̃.dʁɛ/	refondrait /ʁə.fɔ̃.dʁɛ/	refondrions /ʁə.fɔ̃.dʁi.jɔ̃/	refondriez /ʁə.fɔ̃.dʁi.je/	refondraient /ʁə.fɔ̃.dʁɛ/
(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	refonde /ʁə.fɔ̃d/	refondes /ʁə.fɔ̃d/	refonde /ʁə.fɔ̃d/	refondions /ʁə.fɔ̃.djɔ̃/	refondiez /ʁə.fɔ̃.dje/	refondent /ʁə.fɔ̃d/
	imperfect2	refondisse /ʁə.fɔ̃.dis/	refondisses /ʁə.fɔ̃.dis/	refondît /ʁə.fɔ̃.di/	refondissions /ʁə.fɔ̃.di.sjɔ̃/	refondissiez /ʁə.fɔ̃.di.sje/	refondissent /ʁə.fɔ̃.dis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	refonds /ʁə.fɔ̃/	—	refondons /ʁə.fɔ̃.dɔ̃/	refondez /ʁə.fɔ̃.de/	—
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

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