réagir

See also: reagir

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin reagō.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ʁe.a.ʒiʁ/
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Verb

réagir

to react, respond
(chemistry) to react

Conjugation

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 réagir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	compound	avoir + past participle
infinitive	simple	réagir
present participle or gerund¹	simple	réagissant /ʁe.a.ʒi.sɑ̃/
present participle or gerund¹	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		réagi /ʁe.a.ʒi/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	réagis /ʁe.a.ʒi/	réagis /ʁe.a.ʒi/	réagit /ʁe.a.ʒi/	réagissons /ʁe.a.ʒi.sɔ̃/	réagissez /ʁe.a.ʒi.se/	réagissent /ʁe.a.ʒis/
	imperfect	réagissais /ʁe.a.ʒi.sɛ/	réagissais /ʁe.a.ʒi.sɛ/	réagissait /ʁe.a.ʒi.sɛ/	réagissions /ʁe.a.ʒi.sjɔ̃/	réagissiez /ʁe.a.ʒi.sje/	réagissaient /ʁe.a.ʒi.sɛ/
	past historic²	réagis /ʁe.a.ʒi/	réagis /ʁe.a.ʒi/	réagit /ʁe.a.ʒi/	réagîmes /ʁe.a.ʒim/	réagîtes /ʁe.a.ʒit/	réagirent /ʁe.a.ʒiʁ/
	future	réagirai /ʁe.a.ʒi.ʁe/	réagiras /ʁe.a.ʒi.ʁa/	réagira /ʁe.a.ʒi.ʁa/	réagirons /ʁe.a.ʒi.ʁɔ̃/	réagirez /ʁe.a.ʒi.ʁe/	réagiront /ʁe.a.ʒi.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	réagirais /ʁe.a.ʒi.ʁɛ/	réagirais /ʁe.a.ʒi.ʁɛ/	réagirait /ʁe.a.ʒi.ʁɛ/	réagirions /ʁe.a.ʒi.ʁjɔ̃/	réagiriez /ʁe.a.ʒi.ʁje/	réagiraient /ʁe.a.ʒi.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	réagisse /ʁe.a.ʒis/	réagisses /ʁe.a.ʒis/	réagisse /ʁe.a.ʒis/	réagissions /ʁe.a.ʒi.sjɔ̃/	réagissiez /ʁe.a.ʒi.sje/	réagissent /ʁe.a.ʒis/
(simple tenses)	imperfect²	réagisse /ʁe.a.ʒis/	réagisses /ʁe.a.ʒis/	réagît /ʁe.a.ʒi/	réagissions /ʁe.a.ʒi.sjɔ̃/	réagissiez /ʁe.a.ʒi.sje/	réagissent /ʁe.a.ʒis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
(compound tenses)	pluperfect²	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	~~nous~~	~~vous~~	–
simple		—	réagis /ʁe.a.ʒi/	—	réagissons /ʁe.a.ʒi.sɔ̃/	réagissez /ʁe.a.ʒi.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).

Related terms

réaction

Anagrams

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