rétablir

French

Etymology

From re- +‎ établir.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁe.ta.bliʁ/

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Verb

rétablir

1. (transitive) to restore
2. (transitive) to reestablish

Conjugation

This is a regular verb of the second conjugation, like finir, choisir, and most other verbs with infinitives ending in -ir. One salient feature of this conjugation is the repeated appearance of the infix -iss-.

Conjugation of rétablir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	rétablir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	rétablissant /ʁe.ta.bli.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		rétabli /ʁe.ta.bli/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	rétablis /ʁe.ta.bli/	rétablis /ʁe.ta.bli/	rétablit /ʁe.ta.bli/	rétablissons /ʁe.ta.bli.sɔ̃/	rétablissez /ʁe.ta.bli.se/	rétablissent /ʁe.ta.blis/
	imperfect	rétablissais /ʁe.ta.bli.sɛ/	rétablissais /ʁe.ta.bli.sɛ/	rétablissait /ʁe.ta.bli.sɛ/	rétablissions /ʁe.ta.bli.sjɔ̃/	rétablissiez /ʁe.ta.bli.sje/	rétablissaient /ʁe.ta.bli.sɛ/
	past historic2	rétablis /ʁe.ta.bli/	rétablis /ʁe.ta.bli/	rétablit /ʁe.ta.bli/	rétablîmes /ʁe.ta.blim/	rétablîtes /ʁe.ta.blit/	rétablirent /ʁe.ta.bliʁ/
	future	rétablirai /ʁe.ta.bli.ʁe/	rétabliras /ʁe.ta.bli.ʁa/	rétablira /ʁe.ta.bli.ʁa/	rétablirons /ʁe.ta.bli.ʁɔ̃/	rétablirez /ʁe.ta.bli.ʁe/	rétabliront /ʁe.ta.bli.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	rétablirais /ʁe.ta.bli.ʁɛ/	rétablirais /ʁe.ta.bli.ʁɛ/	rétablirait /ʁe.ta.bli.ʁɛ/	rétablirions /ʁe.ta.bli.ʁjɔ̃/	rétabliriez /ʁe.ta.bli.ʁje/	rétabliraient /ʁe.ta.bli.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	rétablisse /ʁe.ta.blis/	rétablisses /ʁe.ta.blis/	rétablisse /ʁe.ta.blis/	rétablissions /ʁe.ta.bli.sjɔ̃/	rétablissiez /ʁe.ta.bli.sje/	rétablissent /ʁe.ta.blis/
	imperfect2	rétablisse /ʁe.ta.blis/	rétablisses /ʁe.ta.blis/	rétablît /ʁe.ta.bli/	rétablissions /ʁe.ta.bli.sjɔ̃/	rétablissiez /ʁe.ta.bli.sje/	rétablissent /ʁe.ta.blis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	rétablis /ʁe.ta.bli/	—	rétablissons /ʁe.ta.bli.sɔ̃/	rétablissez /ʁe.ta.bli.se/	—
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: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Derived terms

• rétablissement

Descendants

• Haitian Creole: retabli

Further reading

• “rétablir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.