redoubler
French
Etymology
re- + doubler
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʁə.du.ble/
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Verb
redoubler
- (transitive, intransitive) to increase; to augment; to redouble
- Redoubler d'ardeur.
- (transitive, intransitive) to repeat a year
Conjugation
Conjugation of redoubler (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | redoubler | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | redoublant /ʁə.du.blɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | redoublé /ʁə.du.ble/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | redouble /ʁə.dubl/ | redoubles /ʁə.dubl/ | redouble /ʁə.dubl/ | redoublons /ʁə.du.blɔ̃/ | redoublez /ʁə.du.ble/ | redoublent /ʁə.dubl/ |
| imperfect | redoublais /ʁə.du.blɛ/ | redoublais /ʁə.du.blɛ/ | redoublait /ʁə.du.blɛ/ | redoublions /ʁə.du.bli.jɔ̃/ | redoubliez /ʁə.du.bli.je/ | redoublaient /ʁə.du.blɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | redoublai /ʁə.du.ble/ | redoublas /ʁə.du.bla/ | redoubla /ʁə.du.bla/ | redoublâmes /ʁə.du.blam/ | redoublâtes /ʁə.du.blat/ | redoublèrent /ʁə.du.blɛʁ/ | |
| future | redoublerai /ʁə.du.blə.ʁe/ | redoubleras /ʁə.du.blə.ʁa/ | redoublera /ʁə.du.blə.ʁa/ | redoublerons /ʁə.du.blə.ʁɔ̃/ | redoublerez /ʁə.du.blə.ʁe/ | redoubleront /ʁə.du.blə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | redoublerais /ʁə.du.blə.ʁɛ/ | redoublerais /ʁə.du.blə.ʁɛ/ | redoublerait /ʁə.du.blə.ʁɛ/ | redoublerions /ʁə.du.blə.ʁjɔ̃/ | redoubleriez /ʁə.du.blə.ʁje/ | redoubleraient /ʁə.du.blə.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 | redouble /ʁə.dubl/ | redoubles /ʁə.dubl/ | redouble /ʁə.dubl/ | redoublions /ʁə.du.bli.jɔ̃/ | redoubliez /ʁə.du.bli.je/ | redoublent /ʁə.dubl/ |
| imperfect2 | redoublasse /ʁə.du.blas/ | redoublasses /ʁə.du.blas/ | redoublât /ʁə.du.bla/ | redoublassions /ʁə.du.bla.sjɔ̃/ | redoublassiez /ʁə.du.bla.sje/ | redoublassent /ʁə.du.blas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | redouble /ʁə.dubl/ | — | redoublons /ʁə.du.blɔ̃/ | redoublez /ʁə.du.ble/ | — | |
| 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
- “redoubler”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.