revoir
See also: Revoir
French
Etymology
re- + voir, or from Latin revideo, revidere.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʁə.vwaʁ/
audio ("au revoir") (file) - Rhymes: -waʁ
Verb
revoir
- to see again
- to re-examine
Conjugation
Verbs derived from voir form their future and conditional forms using the root verr- instead of the vr- or voir- of other verbs.
Conjugation of revoir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | revoir | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | revoyant /ʁə.vwa.jɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | revu /ʁə.vy/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | revois /ʁə.vwa/ | revois /ʁə.vwa/ | revoit /ʁə.vwa/ | revoyons /ʁə.vwa.jɔ̃/ | revoyez /ʁə.vwa.je/ | revoient /ʁə.vwa/ |
| imperfect | revoyais /ʁə.vwa.jɛ/ | revoyais /ʁə.vwa.jɛ/ | revoyait /ʁə.vwa.jɛ/ | revoyions /ʁə.vwaj.jɔ̃/ | revoyiez /ʁə.vwaj.je/ | revoyaient /ʁə.vwa.jɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | revis /ʁə.vi/ | revis /ʁə.vi/ | revit /ʁə.vi/ | revîmes /ʁə.vim/ | revîtes /ʁə.vit/ | revirent /ʁə.viʁ/ | |
| future | reverrai /ʁə.vɛ.ʁe/ or /ʁə.ve.ʁe/ | reverras /ʁə.vɛ.ʁa/ or /ʁə.ve.ʁa/ | reverra /ʁə.vɛ.ʁa/ or /ʁə.ve.ʁa/ | reverrons /ʁə.vɛ.ʁɔ̃/ or /ʁə.ve.ʁɔ̃/ | reverrez /ʁə.vɛ.ʁe/ or /ʁə.ve.ʁe/ | reverront /ʁə.vɛ.ʁɔ̃/ or /ʁə.ve.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | reverrais /ʁə.vɛ.ʁɛ/ or /ʁə.ve.ʁɛ/ | reverrais /ʁə.vɛ.ʁɛ/ or /ʁə.ve.ʁɛ/ | reverrait /ʁə.vɛ.ʁɛ/ or /ʁə.ve.ʁɛ/ | reverrions /ʁə.vɛ.ʁjɔ̃/ or /ʁə.ve.ʁjɔ̃/ | reverriez /ʁə.vɛ.ʁje/ or /ʁə.ve.ʁje/ | reverraient /ʁə.vɛ.ʁɛ/ or /ʁə.ve.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 | revoie /ʁə.vwa/ | revoies /ʁə.vwa/ | revoie /ʁə.vwa/ | revoyions /ʁə.vwaj.jɔ̃/ | revoyiez /ʁə.vwaj.je/ | revoient /ʁə.vwa/ |
| imperfect2 | revisse /ʁə.vis/ | revisses /ʁə.vis/ | revît /ʁə.vi/ | revissions /ʁə.vi.sjɔ̃/ | revissiez /ʁə.vi.sje/ | revissent /ʁə.vis/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | revois /ʁə.vwa/ | — | revoyons /ʁə.vwa.jɔ̃/ | revoyez /ʁə.vwa.je/ | — | |
| 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). | |||||||
Derived terms
- au revoir = until [we] see [each other] again
- revue
Further reading
- “revoir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.