répandre
French edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
répandre
- to spill, scatter
- to spread
- Comme un doux léopard elle est souple, et répand / Ses cheveux dénoués aux pieds de son amant. Like a gentle leopard she is supple, and spreads her unfastened hair around her lover's feet. — Alfred de Vigny, ‘La Colère de Samson’
- to shed (tears)
- to give off, give out (a smell etc.)
- (reflexive, se répandre) to spread, to propagate
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of répandre (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | répandre | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | répandant /ʁe.pɑ̃.dɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | répandu /ʁe.pɑ̃.dy/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | répands /ʁe.pɑ̃/ |
répands /ʁe.pɑ̃/ |
répand /ʁe.pɑ̃/ |
répandons /ʁe.pɑ̃.dɔ̃/ |
répandez /ʁe.pɑ̃.de/ |
répandent /ʁe.pɑ̃d/ |
| imperfect | répandais /ʁe.pɑ̃.dɛ/ |
répandais /ʁe.pɑ̃.dɛ/ |
répandait /ʁe.pɑ̃.dɛ/ |
répandions /ʁe.pɑ̃.djɔ̃/ |
répandiez /ʁe.pɑ̃.dje/ |
répandaient /ʁe.pɑ̃.dɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | répandis /ʁe.pɑ̃.di/ |
répandis /ʁe.pɑ̃.di/ |
répandit /ʁe.pɑ̃.di/ |
répandîmes /ʁe.pɑ̃.dim/ |
répandîtes /ʁe.pɑ̃.dit/ |
répandirent /ʁe.pɑ̃.diʁ/ | |
| future | répandrai /ʁe.pɑ̃.dʁe/ |
répandras /ʁe.pɑ̃.dʁa/ |
répandra /ʁe.pɑ̃.dʁa/ |
répandrons /ʁe.pɑ̃.dʁɔ̃/ |
répandrez /ʁe.pɑ̃.dʁe/ |
répandront /ʁe.pɑ̃.dʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | répandrais /ʁe.pɑ̃.dʁɛ/ |
répandrais /ʁe.pɑ̃.dʁɛ/ |
répandrait /ʁe.pɑ̃.dʁɛ/ |
répandrions /ʁe.pɑ̃.dʁi.jɔ̃/ |
répandriez /ʁe.pɑ̃.dʁi.je/ |
répandraient /ʁe.pɑ̃.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 | répande /ʁe.pɑ̃d/ |
répandes /ʁe.pɑ̃d/ |
répande /ʁe.pɑ̃d/ |
répandions /ʁe.pɑ̃.djɔ̃/ |
répandiez /ʁe.pɑ̃.dje/ |
répandent /ʁe.pɑ̃d/ |
| imperfect2 | répandisse /ʁe.pɑ̃.dis/ |
répandisses /ʁe.pɑ̃.dis/ |
répandît /ʁe.pɑ̃.di/ |
répandissions /ʁe.pɑ̃.di.sjɔ̃/ |
répandissiez /ʁe.pɑ̃.di.sje/ |
répandissent /ʁe.pɑ̃.dis/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | répands /ʁe.pɑ̃/ |
— | répandons /ʁe.pɑ̃.dɔ̃/ |
répandez /ʁe.pɑ̃.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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Further reading edit
- “répandre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.