resservir
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʁə.sɛʁ.viʁ/
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Verb
resservir
- to serve again
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) ressers and (il) ressert in the present indicative and imperative, whereas a regular -ir verb would have *resservis and *resservit (as in the past historic).
Conjugation of resservir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | resservir | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | resservant /ʁə.sɛʁ.vɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | resservi /ʁə.sɛʁ.vi/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | ressers /ʁə.sɛʁ/ | ressers /ʁə.sɛʁ/ | ressert /ʁə.sɛʁ/ | resservons /ʁə.sɛʁ.vɔ̃/ | resservez /ʁə.sɛʁ.ve/ | resservent /ʁə.sɛʁv/ |
| imperfect | resservais /ʁə.sɛʁ.vɛ/ | resservais /ʁə.sɛʁ.vɛ/ | resservait /ʁə.sɛʁ.vɛ/ | resservions /ʁə.sɛʁ.vjɔ̃/ | resserviez /ʁə.sɛʁ.vje/ | resservaient /ʁə.sɛʁ.vɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | resservis /ʁə.sɛʁ.vi/ | resservis /ʁə.sɛʁ.vi/ | resservit /ʁə.sɛʁ.vi/ | resservîmes /ʁə.sɛʁ.vim/ | resservîtes /ʁə.sɛʁ.vit/ | resservirent /ʁə.sɛʁ.viʁ/ | |
| future | resservirai /ʁə.sɛʁ.vi.ʁe/ | resserviras /ʁə.sɛʁ.vi.ʁa/ | resservira /ʁə.sɛʁ.vi.ʁa/ | resservirons /ʁə.sɛʁ.vi.ʁɔ̃/ | resservirez /ʁə.sɛʁ.vi.ʁe/ | resserviront /ʁə.sɛʁ.vi.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | resservirais /ʁə.sɛʁ.vi.ʁɛ/ | resservirais /ʁə.sɛʁ.vi.ʁɛ/ | resservirait /ʁə.sɛʁ.vi.ʁɛ/ | resservirions /ʁə.sɛʁ.vi.ʁjɔ̃/ | resserviriez /ʁə.sɛʁ.vi.ʁje/ | resserviraient /ʁə.sɛʁ.vi.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 | resserve /ʁə.sɛʁv/ | resserves /ʁə.sɛʁv/ | resserve /ʁə.sɛʁv/ | resservions /ʁə.sɛʁ.vjɔ̃/ | resserviez /ʁə.sɛʁ.vje/ | resservent /ʁə.sɛʁv/ |
| imperfect2 | resservisse /ʁə.sɛʁ.vis/ | resservisses /ʁə.sɛʁ.vis/ | resservît /ʁə.sɛʁ.vi/ | resservissions /ʁə.sɛʁ.vi.sjɔ̃/ | resservissiez /ʁə.sɛʁ.vi.sje/ | resservissent /ʁə.sɛʁ.vis/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | ressers /ʁə.sɛʁ/ | — | resservons /ʁə.sɛʁ.vɔ̃/ | resservez /ʁə.sɛʁ.ve/ | — | |
| 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
- “resservir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.