ressaisir

French

Etymology

From re- +‎ saisir.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁə.sɛ.ziʁ/ ~ /ʁə.se.ziʁ/

Verb

ressaisir

1. (transitive) To regain or recover (that which was lost)
2. (takes a reflexive pronoun, reflexive) To pull oneself together, to get back on one's feet, to pick oneself up off the floor

Conjugation

This is a regular verb of the second conjugation, like finir, choisir, and most other verbs with infinitives ending in -ir. One salient feature of this conjugation is the repeated appearance of the infix -iss-.

Conjugation of ressaisir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	ressaisir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	ressaisissant /ʁə.sɛ.zi.sɑ̃/ or /ʁə.se.zi.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		ressaisi /ʁə.sɛ.zi/ or /ʁə.se.zi/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	ressaisis /ʁə.sɛ.zi/ or /ʁə.se.zi/	ressaisis /ʁə.sɛ.zi/ or /ʁə.se.zi/	ressaisit /ʁə.sɛ.zi/ or /ʁə.se.zi/	ressaisissons /ʁə.sɛ.zi.sɔ̃/ or /ʁə.se.zi.sɔ̃/	ressaisissez /ʁə.sɛ.zi.se/ or /ʁə.se.zi.se/	ressaisissent /ʁə.sɛ.zis/ or /ʁə.se.zis/
	imperfect	ressaisissais /ʁə.sɛ.zi.sɛ/ or /ʁə.se.zi.sɛ/	ressaisissais /ʁə.sɛ.zi.sɛ/ or /ʁə.se.zi.sɛ/	ressaisissait /ʁə.sɛ.zi.sɛ/ or /ʁə.se.zi.sɛ/	ressaisissions /ʁə.sɛ.zi.sjɔ̃/ or /ʁə.se.zi.sjɔ̃/	ressaisissiez /ʁə.sɛ.zi.sje/ or /ʁə.se.zi.sje/	ressaisissaient /ʁə.sɛ.zi.sɛ/ or /ʁə.se.zi.sɛ/
	past historic2	ressaisis /ʁə.sɛ.zi/ or /ʁə.se.zi/	ressaisis /ʁə.sɛ.zi/ or /ʁə.se.zi/	ressaisit /ʁə.sɛ.zi/ or /ʁə.se.zi/	ressaisîmes /ʁə.sɛ.zim/ or /ʁə.se.zim/	ressaisîtes /ʁə.sɛ.zit/ or /ʁə.se.zit/	ressaisirent /ʁə.sɛ.ziʁ/ or /ʁə.se.ziʁ/
	future	ressaisirai /ʁə.sɛ.zi.ʁe/ or /ʁə.se.zi.ʁe/	ressaisiras /ʁə.sɛ.zi.ʁa/ or /ʁə.se.zi.ʁa/	ressaisira /ʁə.sɛ.zi.ʁa/ or /ʁə.se.zi.ʁa/	ressaisirons /ʁə.sɛ.zi.ʁɔ̃/ or /ʁə.se.zi.ʁɔ̃/	ressaisirez /ʁə.sɛ.zi.ʁe/ or /ʁə.se.zi.ʁe/	ressaisiront /ʁə.sɛ.zi.ʁɔ̃/ or /ʁə.se.zi.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	ressaisirais /ʁə.sɛ.zi.ʁɛ/ or /ʁə.se.zi.ʁɛ/	ressaisirais /ʁə.sɛ.zi.ʁɛ/ or /ʁə.se.zi.ʁɛ/	ressaisirait /ʁə.sɛ.zi.ʁɛ/ or /ʁə.se.zi.ʁɛ/	ressaisirions /ʁə.sɛ.zi.ʁjɔ̃/ or /ʁə.se.zi.ʁjɔ̃/	ressaisiriez /ʁə.sɛ.zi.ʁje/ or /ʁə.se.zi.ʁje/	ressaisiraient /ʁə.sɛ.zi.ʁɛ/ or /ʁə.se.zi.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	ressaisisse /ʁə.sɛ.zis/ or /ʁə.se.zis/	ressaisisses /ʁə.sɛ.zis/ or /ʁə.se.zis/	ressaisisse /ʁə.sɛ.zis/ or /ʁə.se.zis/	ressaisissions /ʁə.sɛ.zi.sjɔ̃/ or /ʁə.se.zi.sjɔ̃/	ressaisissiez /ʁə.sɛ.zi.sje/ or /ʁə.se.zi.sje/	ressaisissent /ʁə.sɛ.zis/ or /ʁə.se.zis/
	imperfect2	ressaisisse /ʁə.sɛ.zis/ or /ʁə.se.zis/	ressaisisses /ʁə.sɛ.zis/ or /ʁə.se.zis/	ressaisît /ʁə.sɛ.zi/ or /ʁə.se.zi/	ressaisissions /ʁə.sɛ.zi.sjɔ̃/ or /ʁə.se.zi.sjɔ̃/	ressaisissiez /ʁə.sɛ.zi.sje/ or /ʁə.se.zi.sje/	ressaisissent /ʁə.sɛ.zis/ or /ʁə.se.zis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	ressaisis /ʁə.sɛ.zi/ or /ʁə.se.zi/	—	ressaisissons /ʁə.sɛ.zi.sɔ̃/ or /ʁə.se.zi.sɔ̃/	ressaisissez /ʁə.sɛ.zi.se/ or /ʁə.se.zi.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

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