retraduire

French

Etymology

From re- (“re-”) +‎ traduire (“to translate”).

Pronunciation

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Verb

retraduire

1. (transitive) to retranslate

Conjugation

Conjugation of retraduire (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	retraduire
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	retraduisant /ʁə.tʁa.dɥi.zɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		retraduit /ʁə.tʁa.dɥi/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	retraduis /ʁə.tʁa.dɥi/	retraduis /ʁə.tʁa.dɥi/	retraduit /ʁə.tʁa.dɥi/	retraduisons /ʁə.tʁa.dɥi.zɔ̃/	retraduisez /ʁə.tʁa.dɥi.ze/	retraduisent /ʁə.tʁa.dɥiz/
	imperfect	retraduisais /ʁə.tʁa.dɥi.zɛ/	retraduisais /ʁə.tʁa.dɥi.zɛ/	retraduisait /ʁə.tʁa.dɥi.zɛ/	retraduisions /ʁə.tʁa.dɥi.zjɔ̃/	retraduisiez /ʁə.tʁa.dɥi.zje/	retraduisaient /ʁə.tʁa.dɥi.zɛ/
	past historic2	retraduisis /ʁə.tʁa.dɥi.zi/	retraduisis /ʁə.tʁa.dɥi.zi/	retraduisit /ʁə.tʁa.dɥi.zi/	retraduisîmes /ʁə.tʁa.dɥi.zim/	retraduisîtes /ʁə.tʁa.dɥi.zit/	retraduisirent /ʁə.tʁa.dɥi.ziʁ/
	future	retraduirai /ʁə.tʁa.dɥi.ʁe/	retraduiras /ʁə.tʁa.dɥi.ʁa/	retraduira /ʁə.tʁa.dɥi.ʁa/	retraduirons /ʁə.tʁa.dɥi.ʁɔ̃/	retraduirez /ʁə.tʁa.dɥi.ʁe/	retraduiront /ʁə.tʁa.dɥi.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	retraduirais /ʁə.tʁa.dɥi.ʁɛ/	retraduirais /ʁə.tʁa.dɥi.ʁɛ/	retraduirait /ʁə.tʁa.dɥi.ʁɛ/	retraduirions /ʁə.tʁa.dɥi.ʁjɔ̃/	retraduiriez /ʁə.tʁa.dɥi.ʁje/	retraduiraient /ʁə.tʁa.dɥi.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	retraduise /ʁə.tʁa.dɥiz/	retraduises /ʁə.tʁa.dɥiz/	retraduise /ʁə.tʁa.dɥiz/	retraduisions /ʁə.tʁa.dɥi.zjɔ̃/	retraduisiez /ʁə.tʁa.dɥi.zje/	retraduisent /ʁə.tʁa.dɥiz/
	imperfect2	retraduisisse /ʁə.tʁa.dɥi.zis/	retraduisisses /ʁə.tʁa.dɥi.zis/	retraduisît /ʁə.tʁa.dɥi.zi/	retraduisissions /ʁə.tʁa.dɥi.zi.sjɔ̃/	retraduisissiez /ʁə.tʁa.dɥi.zi.sje/	retraduisissent /ʁə.tʁa.dɥi.zis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	retraduis /ʁə.tʁa.dɥi/	—	retraduisons /ʁə.tʁa.dɥi.zɔ̃/	retraduisez /ʁə.tʁa.dɥi.ze/	—
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

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