refleurir
French
Etymology
re- + fleurir
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʁə.flœ.ʁiʁ/
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Verb
refleurir
- (transitive) to rebloom, reflower, reflourish
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 refleurir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | refleurir | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | refleurissant /ʁə.flœ.ʁi.sɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | refleuri /ʁə.flœ.ʁi/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) | present | refleuris /ʁə.flœ.ʁi/ | refleuris /ʁə.flœ.ʁi/ | refleurit /ʁə.flœ.ʁi/ | refleurissons /ʁə.flœ.ʁi.sɔ̃/ | refleurissez /ʁə.flœ.ʁi.se/ | refleurissent /ʁə.flœ.ʁis/ |
imperfect | refleurissais /ʁə.flœ.ʁi.sɛ/ | refleurissais /ʁə.flœ.ʁi.sɛ/ | refleurissait /ʁə.flœ.ʁi.sɛ/ | refleurissions /ʁə.flœ.ʁi.sjɔ̃/ | refleurissiez /ʁə.flœ.ʁi.sje/ | refleurissaient /ʁə.flœ.ʁi.sɛ/ | |
past historic2 | refleuris /ʁə.flœ.ʁi/ | refleuris /ʁə.flœ.ʁi/ | refleurit /ʁə.flœ.ʁi/ | refleurîmes /ʁə.flœ.ʁim/ | refleurîtes /ʁə.flœ.ʁit/ | refleurirent /ʁə.flœ.ʁiʁ/ | |
future | refleurirai /ʁə.flœ.ʁi.ʁe/ | refleuriras /ʁə.flœ.ʁi.ʁa/ | refleurira /ʁə.flœ.ʁi.ʁa/ | refleurirons /ʁə.flœ.ʁi.ʁɔ̃/ | refleurirez /ʁə.flœ.ʁi.ʁe/ | refleuriront /ʁə.flœ.ʁi.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | refleurirais /ʁə.flœ.ʁi.ʁɛ/ | refleurirais /ʁə.flœ.ʁi.ʁɛ/ | refleurirait /ʁə.flœ.ʁi.ʁɛ/ | refleuririons /ʁə.flœ.ʁi.ʁjɔ̃/ | refleuririez /ʁə.flœ.ʁi.ʁje/ | refleuriraient /ʁə.flœ.ʁi.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 | refleurisse /ʁə.flœ.ʁis/ | refleurisses /ʁə.flœ.ʁis/ | refleurisse /ʁə.flœ.ʁis/ | refleurissions /ʁə.flœ.ʁi.sjɔ̃/ | refleurissiez /ʁə.flœ.ʁi.sje/ | refleurissent /ʁə.flœ.ʁis/ |
imperfect2 | refleurisse /ʁə.flœ.ʁis/ | refleurisses /ʁə.flœ.ʁis/ | refleurît /ʁə.flœ.ʁi/ | refleurissions /ʁə.flœ.ʁi.sjɔ̃/ | refleurissiez /ʁə.flœ.ʁi.sje/ | refleurissent /ʁə.flœ.ʁis/ | |
(compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | refleuris /ʁə.flœ.ʁi/ | — | refleurissons /ʁə.flœ.ʁi.sɔ̃/ | refleurissez /ʁə.flœ.ʁi.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
- “refleurir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.