repondre

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁə.pɔ̃dʁ/

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Verb

repondre

1. Obsolete spelling of répondre [17th–18th CC.]

Conjugation

Conjugation of repondre (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	repondre
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	repondant /ʁə.pɔ̃.dɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		repondu /ʁə.pɔ̃.dy/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	reponds /ʁə.pɔ̃/	reponds /ʁə.pɔ̃/	repond /ʁə.pɔ̃/	repondons /ʁə.pɔ̃.dɔ̃/	repondez /ʁə.pɔ̃.de/	repondent /ʁə.pɔ̃d/
	imperfect	repondais /ʁə.pɔ̃.dɛ/	repondais /ʁə.pɔ̃.dɛ/	repondait /ʁə.pɔ̃.dɛ/	repondions /ʁə.pɔ̃.djɔ̃/	repondiez /ʁə.pɔ̃.dje/	repondaient /ʁə.pɔ̃.dɛ/
	past historic2	repondis /ʁə.pɔ̃.di/	repondis /ʁə.pɔ̃.di/	repondit /ʁə.pɔ̃.di/	repondîmes /ʁə.pɔ̃.dim/	repondîtes /ʁə.pɔ̃.dit/	repondirent /ʁə.pɔ̃.diʁ/
	future	repondrai /ʁə.pɔ̃.dʁe/	repondras /ʁə.pɔ̃.dʁa/	repondra /ʁə.pɔ̃.dʁa/	repondrons /ʁə.pɔ̃.dʁɔ̃/	repondrez /ʁə.pɔ̃.dʁe/	repondront /ʁə.pɔ̃.dʁɔ̃/
	conditional	repondrais /ʁə.pɔ̃.dʁɛ/	repondrais /ʁə.pɔ̃.dʁɛ/	repondrait /ʁə.pɔ̃.dʁɛ/	repondrions /ʁə.pɔ̃.dʁi.jɔ̃/	repondriez /ʁə.pɔ̃.dʁi.je/	repondraient /ʁə.pɔ̃.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	reponde /ʁə.pɔ̃d/	repondes /ʁə.pɔ̃d/	reponde /ʁə.pɔ̃d/	repondions /ʁə.pɔ̃.djɔ̃/	repondiez /ʁə.pɔ̃.dje/	repondent /ʁə.pɔ̃d/
	imperfect2	repondisse /ʁə.pɔ̃.dis/	repondisses /ʁə.pɔ̃.dis/	repondît /ʁə.pɔ̃.di/	repondissions /ʁə.pɔ̃.di.sjɔ̃/	repondissiez /ʁə.pɔ̃.di.sje/	repondissent /ʁə.pɔ̃.dis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	reponds /ʁə.pɔ̃/	—	repondons /ʁə.pɔ̃.dɔ̃/	repondez /ʁə.pɔ̃.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).