rouvrir
French
Pronunciation
Verb
rouvrir
Conjugation
This verb is conjugated like ouvrir and offrir. It is conjugated like a regular -er verb in the present and imperfect indicative, present subjunctive, imperative, and present participle; it is conjugated like a regular -ir verb in the infinitive, future indicative, conditional, past historic, and imperfect subjunctive; and its past participle rouvert is irregular.
Conjugation of rouvrir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | rouvrir | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | rouvrant /ʁu.vʁɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | rouvert /ʁu.vɛʁ/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | rouvre /ʁuvʁ/ |
rouvres /ʁuvʁ/ |
rouvre /ʁuvʁ/ |
rouvrons /ʁu.vʁɔ̃/ |
rouvrez /ʁu.vʁe/ |
rouvrent /ʁuvʁ/ |
| imperfect | rouvrais /ʁu.vʁɛ/ |
rouvrais /ʁu.vʁɛ/ |
rouvrait /ʁu.vʁɛ/ |
rouvrions /ʁu.vʁi.jɔ̃/ |
rouvriez /ʁu.vʁi.je/ |
rouvraient /ʁu.vʁɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | rouvris /ʁu.vʁi/ |
rouvris /ʁu.vʁi/ |
rouvrit /ʁu.vʁi/ |
rouvrîmes /ʁu.vʁim/ |
rouvrîtes /ʁu.vʁit/ |
rouvrirent /ʁu.vʁiʁ/ | |
| future | rouvrirai /ʁu.vʁi.ʁe/ |
rouvriras /ʁu.vʁi.ʁa/ |
rouvrira /ʁu.vʁi.ʁa/ |
rouvrirons /ʁu.vʁi.ʁɔ̃/ |
rouvrirez /ʁu.vʁi.ʁe/ |
rouvriront /ʁu.vʁi.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | rouvrirais /ʁu.vʁi.ʁɛ/ |
rouvrirais /ʁu.vʁi.ʁɛ/ |
rouvrirait /ʁu.vʁi.ʁɛ/ |
rouvririons /ʁu.vʁi.ʁjɔ̃/ |
rouvririez /ʁu.vʁi.ʁje/ |
rouvriraient /ʁu.vʁi.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 | rouvre /ʁuvʁ/ |
rouvres /ʁuvʁ/ |
rouvre /ʁuvʁ/ |
rouvrions /ʁu.vʁi.jɔ̃/ |
rouvriez /ʁu.vʁi.je/ |
rouvrent /ʁuvʁ/ |
| imperfect2 | rouvrisse /ʁu.vʁis/ |
rouvrisses /ʁu.vʁis/ |
rouvrît /ʁu.vʁi/ |
rouvrissions /ʁu.vʁi.sjɔ̃/ |
rouvrissiez /ʁu.vʁi.sje/ |
rouvrissent /ʁu.vʁis/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | rouvre /ʁuvʁ/ |
— | rouvrons /ʁu.vʁɔ̃/ |
rouvrez /ʁu.vʁe/ |
— | |
| 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). | |||||||
Related terms
Further reading
- “rouvrir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.