redescendre
French
Etymology
re- + descendre (“to descend/go down”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʁə.de.sɑ̃dʁ/
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Verb
redescendre
- to come back down, to go back down (to descend shortly after having gone up)
- to redescend (to descend a second time)
Usage notes
- This verb uses the auxiliary verb avoir when used transitively (or with a transitive sense, even when the complement is omitted); otherwise (when it is intransitive), it uses être.
- il est redescendu du sommet ― he came back down from the summit
- elle a redescendu l'ordinateur ― she got the computer back down
Conjugation
Conjugation of redescendre (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | redescendre | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir or être + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | redescendant /ʁə.de.sɑ̃.dɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant or étant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | redescendu /ʁə.de.sɑ̃.dy/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | redescends /ʁə.de.sɑ̃/ | redescends /ʁə.de.sɑ̃/ | redescend /ʁə.de.sɑ̃/ | redescendons /ʁə.de.sɑ̃.dɔ̃/ | redescendez /ʁə.de.sɑ̃.de/ | redescendent /ʁə.de.sɑ̃d/ |
| imperfect | redescendais /ʁə.de.sɑ̃.dɛ/ | redescendais /ʁə.de.sɑ̃.dɛ/ | redescendait /ʁə.de.sɑ̃.dɛ/ | redescendions /ʁə.de.sɑ̃.djɔ̃/ | redescendiez /ʁə.de.sɑ̃.dje/ | redescendaient /ʁə.de.sɑ̃.dɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | redescendis /ʁə.de.sɑ̃.di/ | redescendis /ʁə.de.sɑ̃.di/ | redescendit /ʁə.de.sɑ̃.di/ | redescendîmes /ʁə.de.sɑ̃.dim/ | redescendîtes /ʁə.de.sɑ̃.dit/ | redescendirent /ʁə.de.sɑ̃.diʁ/ | |
| future | redescendrai /ʁə.de.sɑ̃.dʁe/ | redescendras /ʁə.de.sɑ̃.dʁa/ | redescendra /ʁə.de.sɑ̃.dʁa/ | redescendrons /ʁə.de.sɑ̃.dʁɔ̃/ | redescendrez /ʁə.de.sɑ̃.dʁe/ | redescendront /ʁə.de.sɑ̃.dʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | redescendrais /ʁə.de.sɑ̃.dʁɛ/ | redescendrais /ʁə.de.sɑ̃.dʁɛ/ | redescendrait /ʁə.de.sɑ̃.dʁɛ/ | redescendrions /ʁə.de.sɑ̃.dʁi.jɔ̃/ | redescendriez /ʁə.de.sɑ̃.dʁi.je/ | redescendraient /ʁə.de.sɑ̃.dʁɛ/ | |
| (compound tenses) | present perfect | present indicative of avoir or être + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir or être + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior2 | past historic of avoir or être + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future of avoir or être + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional of avoir or être + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | redescende /ʁə.de.sɑ̃d/ | redescendes /ʁə.de.sɑ̃d/ | redescende /ʁə.de.sɑ̃d/ | redescendions /ʁə.de.sɑ̃.djɔ̃/ | redescendiez /ʁə.de.sɑ̃.dje/ | redescendent /ʁə.de.sɑ̃d/ |
| imperfect2 | redescendisse /ʁə.de.sɑ̃.dis/ | redescendisses /ʁə.de.sɑ̃.dis/ | redescendît /ʁə.de.sɑ̃.di/ | redescendissions /ʁə.de.sɑ̃.di.sjɔ̃/ | redescendissiez /ʁə.de.sɑ̃.di.sje/ | redescendissent /ʁə.de.sɑ̃.dis/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir or être + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir or être + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | redescends /ʁə.de.sɑ̃/ | — | redescendons /ʁə.de.sɑ̃.dɔ̃/ | redescendez /ʁə.de.sɑ̃.de/ | — | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir or être + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir or être + past participle | simple imperative of avoir or être + 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). | |||||||
Derived terms
- redescendre sur terre
Further reading
- “redescendre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.