repouvoir
French
Etymology
re- + pouvoir
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʁə.pu.vwaʁ/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -aʁ
Verb
repouvoir
- (very rare) to be able to again
Usage notes
- It's more usual in contemporary French to use pouvoir with re- in front of the verb, or use à nouveau or de nouveau.
Conjugation
Conjugation of repouvoir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | repouvoir | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | repouvant /ʁə.pu.vɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | repu /ʁə.py/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | repeux /ʁə.pø/ | repeux /ʁə.pø/ | repeut /ʁə.pø/ | repouvons /ʁə.pu.vɔ̃/ | repouvez /ʁə.pu.ve/ | repeuvent /ʁə.pœv/ |
| imperfect | repouvais /ʁə.pu.vɛ/ | repouvais /ʁə.pu.vɛ/ | repouvait /ʁə.pu.vɛ/ | repouvions /ʁə.pu.vjɔ̃/ | repouviez /ʁə.pu.vje/ | repouvaient /ʁə.pu.vɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | repus /ʁə.py/ | repus /ʁə.py/ | reput /ʁə.py/ | repûmes /ʁə.pym/ | repûtes /ʁə.pyt/ | repurent /ʁə.pyʁ/ | |
| future | repourrai /ʁə.pu.ʁe/ | repourras /ʁə.pu.ʁa/ | repourra /ʁə.pu.ʁa/ | repourrons /ʁə.pu.ʁɔ̃/ | repourrez /ʁə.pu.ʁe/ | repourront /ʁə.pu.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | repourrais /ʁə.pu.ʁɛ/ | repourrais /ʁə.pu.ʁɛ/ | repourrait /ʁə.pu.ʁɛ/ | repourrions /ʁə.pu.ʁjɔ̃/ | repourriez /ʁə.pu.ʁje/ | repourraient /ʁə.pu.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 | repuisse /ʁə.pɥis/ | repuisses /ʁə.pɥis/ | repuisse /ʁə.pɥis/ | repuissions /ʁə.pɥi.sjɔ̃/ | repuissiez /ʁə.pɥi.sje/ | repuissent /ʁə.pɥis/ |
| imperfect2 | repusse /ʁə.pys/ | repusses /ʁə.pys/ | repût /ʁə.py/ | repussions /ʁə.py.sjɔ̃/ | repussiez /ʁə.py.sje/ | repussent /ʁə.pys/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| 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
- “repouvoir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.