rembourrer

French

Etymology

From re- +‎ embourrer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁɑ̃.bu.ʁe/

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Verb

rembourrer

1. (transitive) to pad, stuff
2. (transitive) to upholster

Conjugation

Conjugation of rembourrer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	rembourrer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	rembourrant /ʁɑ̃.bu.ʁɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		rembourré /ʁɑ̃.bu.ʁe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	rembourre /ʁɑ̃.buʁ/	rembourres /ʁɑ̃.buʁ/	rembourre /ʁɑ̃.buʁ/	rembourrons /ʁɑ̃.bu.ʁɔ̃/	rembourrez /ʁɑ̃.bu.ʁe/	rembourrent /ʁɑ̃.buʁ/
	imperfect	rembourrais /ʁɑ̃.bu.ʁɛ/	rembourrais /ʁɑ̃.bu.ʁɛ/	rembourrait /ʁɑ̃.bu.ʁɛ/	rembourrions /ʁɑ̃.bu.ʁjɔ̃/	rembourriez /ʁɑ̃.bu.ʁje/	rembourraient /ʁɑ̃.bu.ʁɛ/
	past historic2	rembourrai /ʁɑ̃.bu.ʁe/	rembourras /ʁɑ̃.bu.ʁa/	rembourra /ʁɑ̃.bu.ʁa/	rembourrâmes /ʁɑ̃.bu.ʁam/	rembourrâtes /ʁɑ̃.bu.ʁat/	rembourrèrent /ʁɑ̃.bu.ʁɛʁ/
	future	rembourrerai /ʁɑ̃.bu.ʁə.ʁe/	rembourreras /ʁɑ̃.bu.ʁə.ʁa/	rembourrera /ʁɑ̃.bu.ʁə.ʁa/	rembourrerons /ʁɑ̃.bu.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/	rembourrerez /ʁɑ̃.bu.ʁə.ʁe/	rembourreront /ʁɑ̃.bu.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	rembourrerais /ʁɑ̃.bu.ʁə.ʁɛ/	rembourrerais /ʁɑ̃.bu.ʁə.ʁɛ/	rembourrerait /ʁɑ̃.bu.ʁə.ʁɛ/	rembourrerions /ʁɑ̃.bu.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/	rembourreriez /ʁɑ̃.bu.ʁə.ʁje/	rembourreraient /ʁɑ̃.bu.ʁə.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	rembourre /ʁɑ̃.buʁ/	rembourres /ʁɑ̃.buʁ/	rembourre /ʁɑ̃.buʁ/	rembourrions /ʁɑ̃.bu.ʁjɔ̃/	rembourriez /ʁɑ̃.bu.ʁje/	rembourrent /ʁɑ̃.buʁ/
	imperfect2	rembourrasse /ʁɑ̃.bu.ʁas/	rembourrasses /ʁɑ̃.bu.ʁas/	rembourrât /ʁɑ̃.bu.ʁa/	rembourrassions /ʁɑ̃.bu.ʁa.sjɔ̃/	rembourrassiez /ʁɑ̃.bu.ʁa.sje/	rembourrassent /ʁɑ̃.bu.ʁas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	rembourre /ʁɑ̃.buʁ/	—	rembourrons /ʁɑ̃.bu.ʁɔ̃/	rembourrez /ʁɑ̃.bu.ʁe/	—
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

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