rendormir
French
Etymology
From re- + endormir.
Pronunciation
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Verb
rendormir
- (takes a reflexive pronoun) to fall asleep again, to fall back to sleep, to go back to sleep
Conjugation
This is one of a fairly large group of irregular -ir verbs that are all conjugated the same way. Other members of this group include sortir and dormir. The most significant difference between these verbs' conjugation and that of the regular -ir verbs is that these verbs' conjugation does not use the infix -iss-. Further, this conjugation has the forms (je, tu) rendors and (il) rendort in the present indicative and imperative, whereas a regular -ir verb would have *rendormis and *rendormit (as in the past historic).
Conjugation of rendormir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | rendormir | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | rendormant /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ.mɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | rendormi /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ.mi/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | rendors /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ/ | rendors /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ/ | rendort /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ/ | rendormons /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ.mɔ̃/ | rendormez /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ.me/ | rendorment /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁm/ |
| imperfect | rendormais /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ.mɛ/ | rendormais /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ.mɛ/ | rendormait /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ.mɛ/ | rendormions /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ.mjɔ̃/ | rendormiez /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ.mje/ | rendormaient /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ.mɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | rendormis /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ.mi/ | rendormis /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ.mi/ | rendormit /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ.mi/ | rendormîmes /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ.mim/ | rendormîtes /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ.mit/ | rendormirent /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ.miʁ/ | |
| future | rendormirai /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ.mi.ʁe/ | rendormiras /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ.mi.ʁa/ | rendormira /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ.mi.ʁa/ | rendormirons /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ.mi.ʁɔ̃/ | rendormirez /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ.mi.ʁe/ | rendormiront /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ.mi.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | rendormirais /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ.mi.ʁɛ/ | rendormirais /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ.mi.ʁɛ/ | rendormirait /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ.mi.ʁɛ/ | rendormirions /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ.mi.ʁjɔ̃/ | rendormiriez /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ.mi.ʁje/ | rendormiraient /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ.mi.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 | rendorme /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁm/ | rendormes /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁm/ | rendorme /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁm/ | rendormions /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ.mjɔ̃/ | rendormiez /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ.mje/ | rendorment /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁm/ |
| imperfect2 | rendormisse /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ.mis/ | rendormisses /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ.mis/ | rendormît /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ.mi/ | rendormissions /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ.mi.sjɔ̃/ | rendormissiez /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ.mi.sje/ | rendormissent /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ.mis/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | rendors /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ/ | — | rendormons /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ.mɔ̃/ | rendormez /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ.me/ | — | |
| 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
- endormir
Further reading
- “rendormir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.