rembourser

French

Etymology

From re- +‎ embourser, which is from em- +‎ bourse +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁɑ̃.buʁ.se/

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Verb

rembourser

1. to pay back, refund, reimburse

Conjugation

Conjugation of rembourser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	rembourser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	remboursant /ʁɑ̃.buʁ.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		remboursé /ʁɑ̃.buʁ.se/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	rembourse /ʁɑ̃.buʁs/	rembourses /ʁɑ̃.buʁs/	rembourse /ʁɑ̃.buʁs/	remboursons /ʁɑ̃.buʁ.sɔ̃/	remboursez /ʁɑ̃.buʁ.se/	remboursent /ʁɑ̃.buʁs/
	imperfect	remboursais /ʁɑ̃.buʁ.sɛ/	remboursais /ʁɑ̃.buʁ.sɛ/	remboursait /ʁɑ̃.buʁ.sɛ/	remboursions /ʁɑ̃.buʁ.sjɔ̃/	remboursiez /ʁɑ̃.buʁ.sje/	remboursaient /ʁɑ̃.buʁ.sɛ/
	past historic2	remboursai /ʁɑ̃.buʁ.se/	remboursas /ʁɑ̃.buʁ.sa/	remboursa /ʁɑ̃.buʁ.sa/	remboursâmes /ʁɑ̃.buʁ.sam/	remboursâtes /ʁɑ̃.buʁ.sat/	remboursèrent /ʁɑ̃.buʁ.sɛʁ/
	future	rembourserai /ʁɑ̃.buʁ.sə.ʁe/	rembourseras /ʁɑ̃.buʁ.sə.ʁa/	remboursera /ʁɑ̃.buʁ.sə.ʁa/	rembourserons /ʁɑ̃.buʁ.sə.ʁɔ̃/	rembourserez /ʁɑ̃.buʁ.sə.ʁe/	rembourseront /ʁɑ̃.buʁ.sə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	rembourserais /ʁɑ̃.buʁ.sə.ʁɛ/	rembourserais /ʁɑ̃.buʁ.sə.ʁɛ/	rembourserait /ʁɑ̃.buʁ.sə.ʁɛ/	rembourserions /ʁɑ̃.buʁ.sə.ʁjɔ̃/	rembourseriez /ʁɑ̃.buʁ.sə.ʁje/	rembourseraient /ʁɑ̃.buʁ.sə.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	rembourse /ʁɑ̃.buʁs/	rembourses /ʁɑ̃.buʁs/	rembourse /ʁɑ̃.buʁs/	remboursions /ʁɑ̃.buʁ.sjɔ̃/	remboursiez /ʁɑ̃.buʁ.sje/	remboursent /ʁɑ̃.buʁs/
	imperfect2	remboursasse /ʁɑ̃.buʁ.sas/	remboursasses /ʁɑ̃.buʁ.sas/	remboursât /ʁɑ̃.buʁ.sa/	remboursassions /ʁɑ̃.buʁ.sa.sjɔ̃/	remboursassiez /ʁɑ̃.buʁ.sa.sje/	remboursassent /ʁɑ̃.buʁ.sas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	rembourse /ʁɑ̃.buʁs/	—	remboursons /ʁɑ̃.buʁ.sɔ̃/	remboursez /ʁɑ̃.buʁ.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

• remboursable

Further reading

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