retravailler

French

Etymology

From re- +‎ travailler.

Pronunciation

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Verb

retravailler

1. (transitive) to rework
2. (intransitive) to start working (at a task) again

Conjugation

Conjugation of retravailler (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	retravailler
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	retravaillant /ʁə.tʁa.va.jɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		retravaillé /ʁə.tʁa.va.je/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	retravaille /ʁə.tʁa.vaj/	retravailles /ʁə.tʁa.vaj/	retravaille /ʁə.tʁa.vaj/	retravaillons /ʁə.tʁa.va.jɔ̃/	retravaillez /ʁə.tʁa.va.je/	retravaillent /ʁə.tʁa.vaj/
	imperfect	retravaillais /ʁə.tʁa.va.jɛ/	retravaillais /ʁə.tʁa.va.jɛ/	retravaillait /ʁə.tʁa.va.jɛ/	retravaillions /ʁə.tʁa.vaj.jɔ̃/	retravailliez /ʁə.tʁa.vaj.je/	retravaillaient /ʁə.tʁa.va.jɛ/
	past historic2	retravaillai /ʁə.tʁa.va.je/	retravaillas /ʁə.tʁa.va.ja/	retravailla /ʁə.tʁa.va.ja/	retravaillâmes /ʁə.tʁa.va.jam/	retravaillâtes /ʁə.tʁa.va.jat/	retravaillèrent /ʁə.tʁa.va.jɛʁ/
	future	retravaillerai /ʁə.tʁa.vaj.ʁe/	retravailleras /ʁə.tʁa.vaj.ʁa/	retravaillera /ʁə.tʁa.vaj.ʁa/	retravaillerons /ʁə.tʁa.vaj.ʁɔ̃/	retravaillerez /ʁə.tʁa.vaj.ʁe/	retravailleront /ʁə.tʁa.vaj.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	retravaillerais /ʁə.tʁa.vaj.ʁɛ/	retravaillerais /ʁə.tʁa.vaj.ʁɛ/	retravaillerait /ʁə.tʁa.vaj.ʁɛ/	retravaillerions /ʁə.tʁa.va.jə.ʁjɔ̃/	retravailleriez /ʁə.tʁa.va.jə.ʁje/	retravailleraient /ʁə.tʁa.vaj.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	retravaille /ʁə.tʁa.vaj/	retravailles /ʁə.tʁa.vaj/	retravaille /ʁə.tʁa.vaj/	retravaillions /ʁə.tʁa.vaj.jɔ̃/	retravailliez /ʁə.tʁa.vaj.je/	retravaillent /ʁə.tʁa.vaj/
	imperfect2	retravaillasse /ʁə.tʁa.va.jas/	retravaillasses /ʁə.tʁa.va.jas/	retravaillât /ʁə.tʁa.va.ja/	retravaillassions /ʁə.tʁa.va.ja.sjɔ̃/	retravaillassiez /ʁə.tʁa.va.ja.sje/	retravaillassent /ʁə.tʁa.va.jas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	retravaille /ʁə.tʁa.vaj/	—	retravaillons /ʁə.tʁa.va.jɔ̃/	retravaillez /ʁə.tʁa.va.je/	—
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

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