rebondir
French
Etymology
re- + bondir
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʁə.bɔ̃.diʁ/
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Verb
rebondir
- to bounce, rebound
- (figuratively) to pick oneself up, to get back on one's feet
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 rebondir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | rebondir | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | rebondissant /ʁə.bɔ̃.di.sɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | rebondi /ʁə.bɔ̃.di/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) | present | rebondis /ʁə.bɔ̃.di/ | rebondis /ʁə.bɔ̃.di/ | rebondit /ʁə.bɔ̃.di/ | rebondissons /ʁə.bɔ̃.di.sɔ̃/ | rebondissez /ʁə.bɔ̃.di.se/ | rebondissent /ʁə.bɔ̃.dis/ |
imperfect | rebondissais /ʁə.bɔ̃.di.sɛ/ | rebondissais /ʁə.bɔ̃.di.sɛ/ | rebondissait /ʁə.bɔ̃.di.sɛ/ | rebondissions /ʁə.bɔ̃.di.sjɔ̃/ | rebondissiez /ʁə.bɔ̃.di.sje/ | rebondissaient /ʁə.bɔ̃.di.sɛ/ | |
past historic2 | rebondis /ʁə.bɔ̃.di/ | rebondis /ʁə.bɔ̃.di/ | rebondit /ʁə.bɔ̃.di/ | rebondîmes /ʁə.bɔ̃.dim/ | rebondîtes /ʁə.bɔ̃.dit/ | rebondirent /ʁə.bɔ̃.diʁ/ | |
future | rebondirai /ʁə.bɔ̃.di.ʁe/ | rebondiras /ʁə.bɔ̃.di.ʁa/ | rebondira /ʁə.bɔ̃.di.ʁa/ | rebondirons /ʁə.bɔ̃.di.ʁɔ̃/ | rebondirez /ʁə.bɔ̃.di.ʁe/ | rebondiront /ʁə.bɔ̃.di.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | rebondirais /ʁə.bɔ̃.di.ʁɛ/ | rebondirais /ʁə.bɔ̃.di.ʁɛ/ | rebondirait /ʁə.bɔ̃.di.ʁɛ/ | rebondirions /ʁə.bɔ̃.di.ʁjɔ̃/ | rebondiriez /ʁə.bɔ̃.di.ʁje/ | rebondiraient /ʁə.bɔ̃.di.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 | rebondisse /ʁə.bɔ̃.dis/ | rebondisses /ʁə.bɔ̃.dis/ | rebondisse /ʁə.bɔ̃.dis/ | rebondissions /ʁə.bɔ̃.di.sjɔ̃/ | rebondissiez /ʁə.bɔ̃.di.sje/ | rebondissent /ʁə.bɔ̃.dis/ |
imperfect2 | rebondisse /ʁə.bɔ̃.dis/ | rebondisses /ʁə.bɔ̃.dis/ | rebondît /ʁə.bɔ̃.di/ | rebondissions /ʁə.bɔ̃.di.sjɔ̃/ | rebondissiez /ʁə.bɔ̃.di.sje/ | rebondissent /ʁə.bɔ̃.dis/ | |
(compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | rebondis /ʁə.bɔ̃.di/ | — | rebondissons /ʁə.bɔ̃.di.sɔ̃/ | rebondissez /ʁə.bɔ̃.di.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
- “rebondir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.