ressusciter
French
Etymology
From Latin resuscitāre.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʁe.sy.si.te/
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Verb
ressusciter
- to resurrect
- 1837, Louis Viardot, L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manchefr.Wikisource, translation of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Chapter I:
- Avec ces propos et d’autres semblables, le pauvre gentilhomme perdait le jugement. Il passait les nuits et se donnait la torture pour les comprendre, pour les approfondir, pour leur tirer le sens des entrailles, ce qu’Aristote lui-même n’aurait pu faire, s’il fût ressuscité tout exprès pour cela.
- With these passages and other similar ones, the poor gentleman lost his judgement. He spent his nights and tortured himself to understand them, to consider them more deeply, to take from them their deepest meaning, which Aristotle himself would not have been able to do, had he been resurrected for that very purpose.
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- to bring back to life, to resuscitate
- 1898, Revue du monde invisible, p.339
- Notre imagination, si ardente qu'on la suppose, ne peut ni guérir instantanément une lésion organique, ni ressusciter un mort.
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- 1898, Revue du monde invisible, p.339
Usage notes
- This verb uses the auxiliary verb avoir when used transitively (or with a transitive sense, even when the complement is omitted); otherwise (when it is intransitive), it uses être.
- ils ont ressuscité le chien ― they resuscitated the dog
- la traîtresse était déjà ressuscitée ― The traitor had already come back to life
Conjugation
Conjugation of ressusciter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | ressusciter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir or être + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | ressuscitant /ʁe.sy.si.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant or étant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | ressuscité /ʁe.sy.si.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | ressuscite /ʁe.sy.sit/ | ressuscites /ʁe.sy.sit/ | ressuscite /ʁe.sy.sit/ | ressuscitons /ʁe.sy.si.tɔ̃/ | ressuscitez /ʁe.sy.si.te/ | ressuscitent /ʁe.sy.sit/ |
| imperfect | ressuscitais /ʁe.sy.si.tɛ/ | ressuscitais /ʁe.sy.si.tɛ/ | ressuscitait /ʁe.sy.si.tɛ/ | ressuscitions /ʁe.sy.si.tjɔ̃/ | ressuscitiez /ʁe.sy.si.tje/ | ressuscitaient /ʁe.sy.si.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | ressuscitai /ʁe.sy.si.te/ | ressuscitas /ʁe.sy.si.ta/ | ressuscita /ʁe.sy.si.ta/ | ressuscitâmes /ʁe.sy.si.tam/ | ressuscitâtes /ʁe.sy.si.tat/ | ressuscitèrent /ʁe.sy.si.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | ressusciterai /ʁe.sy.si.tʁe/ | ressusciteras /ʁe.sy.si.tʁa/ | ressuscitera /ʁe.sy.si.tʁa/ | ressusciterons /ʁe.sy.si.tʁɔ̃/ | ressusciterez /ʁe.sy.si.tʁe/ | ressusciteront /ʁe.sy.si.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | ressusciterais /ʁe.sy.si.tʁɛ/ | ressusciterais /ʁe.sy.si.tʁɛ/ | ressusciterait /ʁe.sy.si.tʁɛ/ | ressusciterions /ʁe.sy.si.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ | ressusciteriez /ʁe.sy.si.tə.ʁje/ | ressusciteraient /ʁe.sy.si.tʁɛ/ | |
| (compound tenses) | present perfect | present indicative of avoir or être + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir or être + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior2 | past historic of avoir or être + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future of avoir or être + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional of avoir or être + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | ressuscite /ʁe.sy.sit/ | ressuscites /ʁe.sy.sit/ | ressuscite /ʁe.sy.sit/ | ressuscitions /ʁe.sy.si.tjɔ̃/ | ressuscitiez /ʁe.sy.si.tje/ | ressuscitent /ʁe.sy.sit/ |
| imperfect2 | ressuscitasse /ʁe.sy.si.tas/ | ressuscitasses /ʁe.sy.si.tas/ | ressuscitât /ʁe.sy.si.ta/ | ressuscitassions /ʁe.sy.si.ta.sjɔ̃/ | ressuscitassiez /ʁe.sy.si.ta.sje/ | ressuscitassent /ʁe.sy.si.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir or être + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir or être + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | ressuscite /ʁe.sy.sit/ | — | ressuscitons /ʁe.sy.si.tɔ̃/ | ressuscitez /ʁe.sy.si.te/ | — | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir or être + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir or être + past participle | simple imperative of avoir or être + 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
- susciter
Further reading
- “ressusciter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.