revenir

Catalan

Alternative forms

• revindre

Etymology

Inherited from Old Catalan revenir, from Latin revenīre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [rə.βəˈni]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [rə.vəˈni]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [re.veˈniɾ]
• Rhymes: -i(ɾ)

Verb

revenir (first-person singular present revinc, first-person singular preterite revinguí, past participle revingut); root stress: (Central, Valencian, Balearic) /e/

1. to come again
   1. to come to be responsible
      • 2023 August 14, Hydro-Québec, Power outages‎^[1]:

        Il revient à l’occupant du lieu visé de protéger ses biens.

        It is the users’ responsibility to protect their property.

2. to return
3. of a river, to rise in level

Conjugation

    Conjugation of revenir (third conjugation, without -eix-, irregular, with velar infix)

infinitive			revenir
gerund			revenint
past participle				masculine		feminine
		singular		revingut		revinguda
		plural		revinguts		revingudes
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		jo	tu	ell/ella vostè	nosaltres nós	vosaltres vós	ells/elles vostès
	present	revinc	revens	revé	revenim	reveniu	revenen
	imperfect	revenia	revenies	revenia	reveníem	reveníeu	revenien
	future	revindré	revindràs	revindrà	revindrem	revindreu	revindran
	preterite	revinguí	revingueres	revingué	revinguérem	revinguéreu	revingueren
	conditional	revindria	revindries	revindria	revindríem	revindríeu	revindrien
subjunctive		jo	tu	ell/ella vostè	nosaltres nós	vosaltres vós	ells/elles vostès
	present	revingui	revinguis	revingui	revinguem	revingueu	revinguin
	imperfect	revingués	revinguessis	revingués	revinguéssim	revinguéssiu	revinguessin
imperative		—	tu	vostè	nosaltres	vosaltres vós	vostès
	affirmative	—	revén	revingui	revinguem	reveniu	revinguin
	negative (no)	—	no revinguis	no revingui	no revinguem	no revingueu	no revinguin

Derived terms

• reveniment

Related terms

• venir

References

• “revenir” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “revenir”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “revenir” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “revenir” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French revenir, from Old French revenir, from Latin revenīre (“come back, return”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁə.v(ə).niʁ/

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Verb

revenir

1. to come back, to return

   Je reviens de vacances. ― I'm coming back from holiday.

   Je n’ai pas l’intention de revenir à Paris. ― I am not planning on returning to Paris.

   • 2018, Zaz, On s'en remet jamais:

     Est-ce que la lumière reviendra ? Est-ce qu’on retrouvera le sommeil ? Y aura-t-il un nouveau soleil, quelqu’un d’autre qui brillera ?

     Will the light return? Will we get back to sleep? Will there be a new sun, someone else who will shine?

2. to grow back

   Les plumes reviennent à cet oiseau. ― This bird's feathers are growing back.

3. to recur, to be mentioned repeatedly

   Les auteurs grecs et latins reviennent souvent dans ses écrits. ― Greek and Latin authors often recur in his writings.

4. to come to mind, to be remembered

   Ce nom ne me revient pas. ― That name doesn't come to mind.

5. (transitive with sur) to recant

   revenir sur sa décision ― to go back on one's decision

   revenir sur sa parole ― to go back on one's word

6. (cooking, preceded by faire) to brown

   Mettez un peu de beurre et d’huile et faites revenir sur le gaz. ― Put in a bit of butter and oil and brown on the gas cooker.

7. to go to as what is due

   Il paie à elle ce qui lui revenait après le divorce. ― He pays to her what was due to her after the divorce.

Conjugation

This is a verb in a group of -ir verbs. All verbs ending in -venir, such as convenir and devenir, are conjugated this way. Such verbs are the only verbs whose the past historic and subjunctive imperfect endings do not start in one of these thematic vowels (-a-, -i-, -u-).

Conjugation of revenir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	revenir
	compound	être + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	revenant /ʁə.v(ə).nɑ̃/
	compound	étant + past participle
past participle		revenu /ʁə.v(ə).ny/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	reviens /ʁə.vjɛ̃/	reviens /ʁə.vjɛ̃/	revient /ʁə.vjɛ̃/	revenons /ʁə.v(ə).nɔ̃/	revenez /ʁə.v(ə).ne/	reviennent /ʁə.vjɛn/
	imperfect	revenais /ʁə.v(ə).nɛ/	revenais /ʁə.v(ə).nɛ/	revenait /ʁə.v(ə).nɛ/	revenions /ʁə.və.njɔ̃/	reveniez /ʁə.və.nje/	revenaient /ʁə.v(ə).nɛ/
	past historic2	revins /ʁə.vɛ̃/	revins /ʁə.vɛ̃/	revint /ʁə.vɛ̃/	revînmes /ʁə.vɛ̃m/	revîntes /ʁə.vɛ̃t/	revinrent /ʁə.vɛ̃ʁ/
	future	reviendrai /ʁə.vjɛ̃.dʁe/	reviendras /ʁə.vjɛ̃.dʁa/	reviendra /ʁə.vjɛ̃.dʁa/	reviendrons /ʁə.vjɛ̃.dʁɔ̃/	reviendrez /ʁə.vjɛ̃.dʁe/	reviendront /ʁə.vjɛ̃.dʁɔ̃/
	conditional	reviendrais /ʁə.vjɛ̃.dʁɛ/	reviendrais /ʁə.vjɛ̃.dʁɛ/	reviendrait /ʁə.vjɛ̃.dʁɛ/	reviendrions /ʁə.vjɛ̃.dʁi.jɔ̃/	reviendriez /ʁə.vjɛ̃.dʁi.je/	reviendraient /ʁə.vjɛ̃.dʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of être + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of être + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of être + past participle
	future perfect	future of être + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of être + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	revienne /ʁə.vjɛn/	reviennes /ʁə.vjɛn/	revienne /ʁə.vjɛn/	revenions /ʁə.və.njɔ̃/	reveniez /ʁə.və.nje/	reviennent /ʁə.vjɛn/
	imperfect2	revinsse /ʁə.vɛ̃s/	revinsses /ʁə.vɛ̃s/	revînt /ʁə.vɛ̃/	revinssions /ʁə.vɛ̃.sjɔ̃/	revinssiez /ʁə.vɛ̃.sje/	revinssent /ʁə.vɛ̃s/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of être + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of être + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	reviens /ʁə.vjɛ̃/	—	revenons /ʁə.v(ə).nɔ̃/	revenez /ʁə.v(ə).ne/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of être + past participle	—	simple imperative of être + past participle	simple imperative of être + 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

• chassez le naturel, il revient au galop
• en revenir
• revenant
• revenir à la charge
• revenir à ses moutons
• revenir à soi
• revenir au même
• revenir de loin
• revenir sur ses pas
• revenu
• revenue

 

See also

• rentrer
• retourner
• venir

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• enivrer, reverni, verrine

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French revenir.

Verb

revenir

1. to come back, to return

Descendants

• French: revenir

Old French

Etymology

First attested circa 980 in La Vie de Saint Léger, inherited from Latin revenīre, present active infinitive of reveniō.

Verb

revenir

1. to come back, to return
   • c. 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Yvain ou le Chevalier au Lion:

     En la cambre revient mout tost

     [She] quickly came back into the room

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a third-group verb. This verb has a stressed present stem revien distinct from the unstressed stem reven, as well as other irregularities. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

    Conjugation of revenir (see also Appendix:Old French verbs)

		simple			compound
infinitive		revenir			estre revenu
gerund		en revenant			gerund of estre + past participle
present participle		revenant
past participle		revenu
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		jo	tu	il	nos	vos	il
simple tenses	present	revieng, revien	reviens	revient	revenons	revenez	revienent
	imperfect	revenoie, reveneie	revenoies, reveneies	revenoit, reveneit	reveniiens, reveniens	reveniiez, reveniez	revenoient, reveneient
	preterite	revin	revenis	revint	revenimes	revenistes	revindrent, revinrent
	future	revendrai	revendras	revendra	revendrons	revendroiz, revendreiz, revendrez	revendront
	conditional	revendroie, revendreie	revendroies, revendreies	revendroit, revendreit	revendriiens, revendriens	revendriiez, revendriez	revendroient, revendreient
compound tenses	present perfect	present tense of estre + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect tense of estre + past participle
	past anterior	preterite tense of estre + past participle
	future perfect	future tense of estre + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional tense of estre + past participle
subjunctive		que jo	que tu	qu’il	que nos	que vos	qu’il
simple tenses	present	reviegne	reviegnes	reviegne	reviegniens, reviegnons	reviegniez	reviegnent
	imperfect	revenisse	revenisses	revenist	revenissons, revenissiens	revenissoiz, revenissez, revenissiez	revenissent
compound tenses	past	present subjunctive of estre + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect subjunctive of estre + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nos	vos	–
		—	revien	—	revenons	revenez	—

Descendants

• Middle French: revenir
  • French: revenir
• Norman: r'vénîn
• Walloon: rivni

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (revenir, supplement)
• revenir on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

Spanish

Etymology

From re- +‎ venir, or from Latin revenīre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rebeˈniɾ/ [re.β̞eˈniɾ]
• Rhymes: -iɾ
• Syllabification: re‧ve‧nir

Verb

revenir (first-person singular present revengo, first-person singular preterite revine, past participle revenido)

1. (intransitive) to return, revert

   Synonyms: retornar, volver

2. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to shrink, reduce

   Synonyms: encoger, consumir

3. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to go bad, spoil, turn sour (of food)

   Synonyms: acedar, avinagrar

Conjugation

    Conjugation of revenir (irregular; e-ie-i alternation) (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)

infinitive			revenir
gerund			reviniendo
past participle				masculine		feminine
		singular		revenido		revenida
		plural		revenidos		revenidas
		singular			plural
		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
indicative		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	revengo	revienestú revenísvos	reviene	revenimos	revenís	revienen
	imperfect	revenía	revenías	revenía	reveníamos	reveníais	revenían
	preterite	revine	reviniste	revino	revinimos	revinisteis	revinieron
	future	revendré	revendrás	revendrá	revendremos	revendréis	revendrán
	conditional	revendría	revendrías	revendría	revendríamos	revendríais	revendrían
subjunctive		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	revenga	revengastú revengásvos2	revenga	revengamos	revengáis	revengan
	imperfect (ra)	reviniera	revinieras	reviniera	reviniéramos	revinierais	revinieran
	imperfect (se)	reviniese	revinieses	reviniese	reviniésemos	revinieseis	reviniesen
	future1	reviniere	revinieres	reviniere	reviniéremos	reviniereis	revinieren
imperative		—	tú vos	usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ustedes
	affirmative		revéntú revenívos	revenga	revengamos	revenid	revengan
	negative		no revengas	no revenga	no revengamos	no revengáis	no revengan

¹Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language.
²Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.

Further reading

• “revenir”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014