rebondir
French edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
rebondir
- to bounce, rebound
- (figuratively) to pick oneself up, to get back on one's feet
Conjugation edit
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 rebondir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | rebondir | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | rebondissant /ʁə.bɔ̃.di.sɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | rebondi /ʁə.bɔ̃.di/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | rebondis /ʁə.bɔ̃.di/ |
rebondis /ʁə.bɔ̃.di/ |
rebondit /ʁə.bɔ̃.di/ |
rebondissons /ʁə.bɔ̃.di.sɔ̃/ |
rebondissez /ʁə.bɔ̃.di.se/ |
rebondissent /ʁə.bɔ̃.dis/ |
| imperfect | rebondissais /ʁə.bɔ̃.di.sɛ/ |
rebondissais /ʁə.bɔ̃.di.sɛ/ |
rebondissait /ʁə.bɔ̃.di.sɛ/ |
rebondissions /ʁə.bɔ̃.di.sjɔ̃/ |
rebondissiez /ʁə.bɔ̃.di.sje/ |
rebondissaient /ʁə.bɔ̃.di.sɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | rebondis /ʁə.bɔ̃.di/ |
rebondis /ʁə.bɔ̃.di/ |
rebondit /ʁə.bɔ̃.di/ |
rebondîmes /ʁə.bɔ̃.dim/ |
rebondîtes /ʁə.bɔ̃.dit/ |
rebondirent /ʁə.bɔ̃.diʁ/ | |
| future | rebondirai /ʁə.bɔ̃.di.ʁe/ |
rebondiras /ʁə.bɔ̃.di.ʁa/ |
rebondira /ʁə.bɔ̃.di.ʁa/ |
rebondirons /ʁə.bɔ̃.di.ʁɔ̃/ |
rebondirez /ʁə.bɔ̃.di.ʁe/ |
rebondiront /ʁə.bɔ̃.di.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | rebondirais /ʁə.bɔ̃.di.ʁɛ/ |
rebondirais /ʁə.bɔ̃.di.ʁɛ/ |
rebondirait /ʁə.bɔ̃.di.ʁɛ/ |
rebondirions /ʁə.bɔ̃.di.ʁjɔ̃/ |
rebondiriez /ʁə.bɔ̃.di.ʁje/ |
rebondiraient /ʁə.bɔ̃.di.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 | rebondisse /ʁə.bɔ̃.dis/ |
rebondisses /ʁə.bɔ̃.dis/ |
rebondisse /ʁə.bɔ̃.dis/ |
rebondissions /ʁə.bɔ̃.di.sjɔ̃/ |
rebondissiez /ʁə.bɔ̃.di.sje/ |
rebondissent /ʁə.bɔ̃.dis/ |
| imperfect2 | rebondisse /ʁə.bɔ̃.dis/ |
rebondisses /ʁə.bɔ̃.dis/ |
rebondît /ʁə.bɔ̃.di/ |
rebondissions /ʁə.bɔ̃.di.sjɔ̃/ |
rebondissiez /ʁə.bɔ̃.di.sje/ |
rebondissent /ʁə.bɔ̃.dis/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | rebondis /ʁə.bɔ̃.di/ |
— | rebondissons /ʁə.bɔ̃.di.sɔ̃/ |
rebondissez /ʁə.bɔ̃.di.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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “rebondir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.