reparaître

See also: reparaitre

French

Alternative forms

• reparaitre (post-1990 spelling)

Etymology

From re- +‎ paraître.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁə.pa.ʁɛtʁ/

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Verb

reparaître

1. to reappear

Conjugation

This verb is one of a fairly small group of -re verbs, that are all conjugated the same way. They are unlike other verb groups in that the 'i' is given a circumflex before a 't'.

Conjugation of reparaître (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	reparaître
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	reparaissant /ʁə.pa.ʁɛ.sɑ̃/ or /ʁə.pa.ʁe.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		reparu /ʁə.pa.ʁy/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	reparais /ʁə.pa.ʁɛ/	reparais /ʁə.pa.ʁɛ/	reparaît /ʁə.pa.ʁɛ/	reparaissons /ʁə.pa.ʁɛ.sɔ̃/ or /ʁə.pa.ʁe.sɔ̃/	reparaissez /ʁə.pa.ʁɛ.se/ or /ʁə.pa.ʁe.se/	reparaissent /ʁə.pa.ʁɛs/
	imperfect	reparaissais /ʁə.pa.ʁɛ.sɛ/ or /ʁə.pa.ʁe.sɛ/	reparaissais /ʁə.pa.ʁɛ.sɛ/ or /ʁə.pa.ʁe.sɛ/	reparaissait /ʁə.pa.ʁɛ.sɛ/ or /ʁə.pa.ʁe.sɛ/	reparaissions /ʁə.pa.ʁɛ.sjɔ̃/ or /ʁə.pa.ʁe.sjɔ̃/	reparaissiez /ʁə.pa.ʁɛ.sje/ or /ʁə.pa.ʁe.sje/	reparaissaient /ʁə.pa.ʁɛ.sɛ/ or /ʁə.pa.ʁe.sɛ/
	past historic2	reparus /ʁə.pa.ʁy/	reparus /ʁə.pa.ʁy/	reparut /ʁə.pa.ʁy/	reparûmes /ʁə.pa.ʁym/	reparûtes /ʁə.pa.ʁyt/	reparurent /ʁə.pa.ʁyʁ/
	future	reparaîtrai /ʁə.pa.ʁɛ.tʁe/ or /ʁə.pa.ʁe.tʁe/	reparaîtras /ʁə.pa.ʁɛ.tʁa/ or /ʁə.pa.ʁe.tʁa/	reparaîtra /ʁə.pa.ʁɛ.tʁa/ or /ʁə.pa.ʁe.tʁa/	reparaîtrons /ʁə.pa.ʁɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /ʁə.pa.ʁe.tʁɔ̃/	reparaîtrez /ʁə.pa.ʁɛ.tʁe/ or /ʁə.pa.ʁe.tʁe/	reparaîtront /ʁə.pa.ʁɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /ʁə.pa.ʁe.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	reparaîtrais /ʁə.pa.ʁɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ʁə.pa.ʁe.tʁɛ/	reparaîtrais /ʁə.pa.ʁɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ʁə.pa.ʁe.tʁɛ/	reparaîtrait /ʁə.pa.ʁɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ʁə.pa.ʁe.tʁɛ/	reparaîtrions /ʁə.pa.ʁɛ.tʁi.jɔ̃/ or /ʁə.pa.ʁe.tʁi.jɔ̃/	reparaîtriez /ʁə.pa.ʁɛ.tʁi.je/ or /ʁə.pa.ʁe.tʁi.je/	reparaîtraient /ʁə.pa.ʁɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ʁə.pa.ʁe.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	reparaisse /ʁə.pa.ʁɛs/	reparaisses /ʁə.pa.ʁɛs/	reparaisse /ʁə.pa.ʁɛs/	reparaissions /ʁə.pa.ʁɛ.sjɔ̃/ or /ʁə.pa.ʁe.sjɔ̃/	reparaissiez /ʁə.pa.ʁɛ.sje/ or /ʁə.pa.ʁe.sje/	reparaissent /ʁə.pa.ʁɛs/
	imperfect2	reparusse /ʁə.pa.ʁys/	reparusses /ʁə.pa.ʁys/	reparût /ʁə.pa.ʁy/	reparussions /ʁə.pa.ʁy.sjɔ̃/	reparussiez /ʁə.pa.ʁy.sje/	reparussent /ʁə.pa.ʁys/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	reparais /ʁə.pa.ʁɛ/	—	reparaissons /ʁə.pa.ʁɛ.sɔ̃/ or /ʁə.pa.ʁe.sɔ̃/	reparaissez /ʁə.pa.ʁɛ.se/ or /ʁə.pa.ʁe.se/	—
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

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

Anagrams

• réparerait, repatriera