retendre

See also: retendré

French

Etymology

From re- +‎ tendre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁə.tɑ̃dʁ/

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Verb

retendre

1. (transitive) to re-tighten

Conjugation

Conjugation of retendre (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	retendre
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	retendant /ʁə.tɑ̃.dɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		retendu /ʁə.tɑ̃.dy/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	retends /ʁə.tɑ̃/	retends /ʁə.tɑ̃/	retend /ʁə.tɑ̃/	retendons /ʁə.tɑ̃.dɔ̃/	retendez /ʁə.tɑ̃.de/	retendent /ʁə.tɑ̃d/
	imperfect	retendais /ʁə.tɑ̃.dɛ/	retendais /ʁə.tɑ̃.dɛ/	retendait /ʁə.tɑ̃.dɛ/	retendions /ʁə.tɑ̃.djɔ̃/	retendiez /ʁə.tɑ̃.dje/	retendaient /ʁə.tɑ̃.dɛ/
	past historic2	retendis /ʁə.tɑ̃.di/	retendis /ʁə.tɑ̃.di/	retendit /ʁə.tɑ̃.di/	retendîmes /ʁə.tɑ̃.dim/	retendîtes /ʁə.tɑ̃.dit/	retendirent /ʁə.tɑ̃.diʁ/
	future	retendrai /ʁə.tɑ̃.dʁe/	retendras /ʁə.tɑ̃.dʁa/	retendra /ʁə.tɑ̃.dʁa/	retendrons /ʁə.tɑ̃.dʁɔ̃/	retendrez /ʁə.tɑ̃.dʁe/	retendront /ʁə.tɑ̃.dʁɔ̃/
	conditional	retendrais /ʁə.tɑ̃.dʁɛ/	retendrais /ʁə.tɑ̃.dʁɛ/	retendrait /ʁə.tɑ̃.dʁɛ/	retendrions /ʁə.tɑ̃.dʁi.jɔ̃/	retendriez /ʁə.tɑ̃.dʁi.je/	retendraient /ʁə.tɑ̃.dʁɛ/
(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	retende /ʁə.tɑ̃d/	retendes /ʁə.tɑ̃d/	retende /ʁə.tɑ̃d/	retendions /ʁə.tɑ̃.djɔ̃/	retendiez /ʁə.tɑ̃.dje/	retendent /ʁə.tɑ̃d/
	imperfect2	retendisse /ʁə.tɑ̃.dis/	retendisses /ʁə.tɑ̃.dis/	retendît /ʁə.tɑ̃.di/	retendissions /ʁə.tɑ̃.di.sjɔ̃/	retendissiez /ʁə.tɑ̃.di.sje/	retendissent /ʁə.tɑ̃.dis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	retends /ʁə.tɑ̃/	—	retendons /ʁə.tɑ̃.dɔ̃/	retendez /ʁə.tɑ̃.de/	—
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).

Further reading

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