revernir
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʁə.vɛʁ.niʁ/
- Homophone: revernirent
Verb
revernir
- to revarnish (varnish again)
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 revernir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | revernir | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | revernissant /ʁə.vɛʁ.ni.sɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | reverni /ʁə.vɛʁ.ni/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | revernis /ʁə.vɛʁ.ni/ |
revernis /ʁə.vɛʁ.ni/ |
revernit /ʁə.vɛʁ.ni/ |
revernissons /ʁə.vɛʁ.ni.sɔ̃/ |
revernissez /ʁə.vɛʁ.ni.se/ |
revernissent /ʁə.vɛʁ.nis/ |
| imperfect | revernissais /ʁə.vɛʁ.ni.sɛ/ |
revernissais /ʁə.vɛʁ.ni.sɛ/ |
revernissait /ʁə.vɛʁ.ni.sɛ/ |
revernissions /ʁə.vɛʁ.ni.sjɔ̃/ |
revernissiez /ʁə.vɛʁ.ni.sje/ |
revernissaient /ʁə.vɛʁ.ni.sɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | revernis /ʁə.vɛʁ.ni/ |
revernis /ʁə.vɛʁ.ni/ |
revernit /ʁə.vɛʁ.ni/ |
revernîmes /ʁə.vɛʁ.nim/ |
revernîtes /ʁə.vɛʁ.nit/ |
revernirent /ʁə.vɛʁ.niʁ/ | |
| future | revernirai /ʁə.vɛʁ.ni.ʁe/ |
reverniras /ʁə.vɛʁ.ni.ʁa/ |
revernira /ʁə.vɛʁ.ni.ʁa/ |
revernirons /ʁə.vɛʁ.ni.ʁɔ̃/ |
revernirez /ʁə.vɛʁ.ni.ʁe/ |
reverniront /ʁə.vɛʁ.ni.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | revernirais /ʁə.vɛʁ.ni.ʁɛ/ |
revernirais /ʁə.vɛʁ.ni.ʁɛ/ |
revernirait /ʁə.vɛʁ.ni.ʁɛ/ |
revernirions /ʁə.vɛʁ.ni.ʁjɔ̃/ |
reverniriez /ʁə.vɛʁ.ni.ʁje/ |
reverniraient /ʁə.vɛʁ.ni.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 | revernisse /ʁə.vɛʁ.nis/ |
revernisses /ʁə.vɛʁ.nis/ |
revernisse /ʁə.vɛʁ.nis/ |
revernissions /ʁə.vɛʁ.ni.sjɔ̃/ |
revernissiez /ʁə.vɛʁ.ni.sje/ |
revernissent /ʁə.vɛʁ.nis/ |
| imperfect2 | revernisse /ʁə.vɛʁ.nis/ |
revernisses /ʁə.vɛʁ.nis/ |
revernît /ʁə.vɛʁ.ni/ |
revernissions /ʁə.vɛʁ.ni.sjɔ̃/ |
revernissiez /ʁə.vɛʁ.ni.sje/ |
revernissent /ʁə.vɛʁ.nis/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | revernis /ʁə.vɛʁ.ni/ |
— | revernissons /ʁə.vɛʁ.ni.sɔ̃/ |
revernissez /ʁə.vɛʁ.ni.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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Further reading
- “revernir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.