ressembler

French

Etymology

re- +‎ sembler. Compare Italian rassomigliare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁə.sɑ̃.ble/

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Verb

ressembler

1. (transitive) To resemble, to be similar to
2. (intransitive) To look like, to have physical similarities to (followed by à)

Conjugation

Conjugation of ressembler (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	ressembler
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	ressemblant /ʁə.sɑ̃.blɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		ressemblé /ʁə.sɑ̃.ble/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	ressemble /ʁə.sɑ̃bl/	ressembles /ʁə.sɑ̃bl/	ressemble /ʁə.sɑ̃bl/	ressemblons /ʁə.sɑ̃.blɔ̃/	ressemblez /ʁə.sɑ̃.ble/	ressemblent /ʁə.sɑ̃bl/
	imperfect	ressemblais /ʁə.sɑ̃.blɛ/	ressemblais /ʁə.sɑ̃.blɛ/	ressemblait /ʁə.sɑ̃.blɛ/	ressemblions /ʁə.sɑ̃.bli.jɔ̃/	ressembliez /ʁə.sɑ̃.bli.je/	ressemblaient /ʁə.sɑ̃.blɛ/
	past historic2	ressemblai /ʁə.sɑ̃.ble/	ressemblas /ʁə.sɑ̃.bla/	ressembla /ʁə.sɑ̃.bla/	ressemblâmes /ʁə.sɑ̃.blam/	ressemblâtes /ʁə.sɑ̃.blat/	ressemblèrent /ʁə.sɑ̃.blɛʁ/
	future	ressemblerai /ʁə.sɑ̃.blə.ʁe/	ressembleras /ʁə.sɑ̃.blə.ʁa/	ressemblera /ʁə.sɑ̃.blə.ʁa/	ressemblerons /ʁə.sɑ̃.blə.ʁɔ̃/	ressemblerez /ʁə.sɑ̃.blə.ʁe/	ressembleront /ʁə.sɑ̃.blə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	ressemblerais /ʁə.sɑ̃.blə.ʁɛ/	ressemblerais /ʁə.sɑ̃.blə.ʁɛ/	ressemblerait /ʁə.sɑ̃.blə.ʁɛ/	ressemblerions /ʁə.sɑ̃.blə.ʁjɔ̃/	ressembleriez /ʁə.sɑ̃.blə.ʁje/	ressembleraient /ʁə.sɑ̃.blə.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	ressemble /ʁə.sɑ̃bl/	ressembles /ʁə.sɑ̃bl/	ressemble /ʁə.sɑ̃bl/	ressemblions /ʁə.sɑ̃.bli.jɔ̃/	ressembliez /ʁə.sɑ̃.bli.je/	ressemblent /ʁə.sɑ̃bl/
	imperfect2	ressemblasse /ʁə.sɑ̃.blas/	ressemblasses /ʁə.sɑ̃.blas/	ressemblât /ʁə.sɑ̃.bla/	ressemblassions /ʁə.sɑ̃.bla.sjɔ̃/	ressemblassiez /ʁə.sɑ̃.bla.sje/	ressemblassent /ʁə.sɑ̃.blas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	ressemble /ʁə.sɑ̃bl/	—	ressemblons /ʁə.sɑ̃.blɔ̃/	ressemblez /ʁə.sɑ̃.ble/	—
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).

Related terms

• sembler

Further reading

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