réengager

French

Alternative forms

• rengager

Pronunciation

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Verb

réengager

1. to reengage
2. to take back up, take up again
3. to get back into
4. to put back in
5. (reflexive) to reenlist (in the army)
6. to get back (with an ex-lover)

Conjugation

This is a regular -er verb, but the stem is written réengage- before endings that begin with -a- or -o- (to indicate that the -g- is a "soft" /ʒ/ and not a "hard" /ɡ/). This spelling-change occurs in all verbs in -ger, such as neiger and manger.

Conjugation of réengager (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	réengager
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	réengageant /ʁe.ɑ̃.ɡa.ʒɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		réengagé /ʁe.ɑ̃.ɡa.ʒe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	réengage /ʁe.ɑ̃.ɡaʒ/	réengages /ʁe.ɑ̃.ɡaʒ/	réengage /ʁe.ɑ̃.ɡaʒ/	réengageons /ʁe.ɑ̃.ɡa.ʒɔ̃/	réengagez /ʁe.ɑ̃.ɡa.ʒe/	réengagent /ʁe.ɑ̃.ɡaʒ/
	imperfect	réengageais /ʁe.ɑ̃.ɡa.ʒɛ/	réengageais /ʁe.ɑ̃.ɡa.ʒɛ/	réengageait /ʁe.ɑ̃.ɡa.ʒɛ/	réengagions /ʁe.ɑ̃.ɡa.ʒjɔ̃/	réengagiez /ʁe.ɑ̃.ɡa.ʒje/	réengageaient /ʁe.ɑ̃.ɡa.ʒɛ/
	past historic2	réengageai /ʁe.ɑ̃.ɡa.ʒe/	réengageas /ʁe.ɑ̃.ɡa.ʒa/	réengagea /ʁe.ɑ̃.ɡa.ʒa/	réengageâmes /ʁe.ɑ̃.ɡa.ʒam/	réengageâtes /ʁe.ɑ̃.ɡa.ʒat/	réengagèrent /ʁe.ɑ̃.ɡa.ʒɛʁ/
	future	réengagerai /ʁe.ɑ̃.ɡaʒ.ʁe/	réengageras /ʁe.ɑ̃.ɡaʒ.ʁa/	réengagera /ʁe.ɑ̃.ɡaʒ.ʁa/	réengagerons /ʁe.ɑ̃.ɡaʒ.ʁɔ̃/	réengagerez /ʁe.ɑ̃.ɡaʒ.ʁe/	réengageront /ʁe.ɑ̃.ɡaʒ.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	réengagerais /ʁe.ɑ̃.ɡaʒ.ʁɛ/	réengagerais /ʁe.ɑ̃.ɡaʒ.ʁɛ/	réengagerait /ʁe.ɑ̃.ɡaʒ.ʁɛ/	réengagerions /ʁe.ɑ̃.ɡa.ʒə.ʁjɔ̃/	réengageriez /ʁe.ɑ̃.ɡa.ʒə.ʁje/	réengageraient /ʁe.ɑ̃.ɡaʒ.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	réengage /ʁe.ɑ̃.ɡaʒ/	réengages /ʁe.ɑ̃.ɡaʒ/	réengage /ʁe.ɑ̃.ɡaʒ/	réengagions /ʁe.ɑ̃.ɡa.ʒjɔ̃/	réengagiez /ʁe.ɑ̃.ɡa.ʒje/	réengagent /ʁe.ɑ̃.ɡaʒ/
	imperfect2	réengageasse /ʁe.ɑ̃.ɡa.ʒas/	réengageasses /ʁe.ɑ̃.ɡa.ʒas/	réengageât /ʁe.ɑ̃.ɡa.ʒa/	réengageassions /ʁe.ɑ̃.ɡa.ʒa.sjɔ̃/	réengageassiez /ʁe.ɑ̃.ɡa.ʒa.sje/	réengageassent /ʁe.ɑ̃.ɡa.ʒas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	réengage /ʁe.ɑ̃.ɡaʒ/	—	réengageons /ʁe.ɑ̃.ɡa.ʒɔ̃/	réengagez /ʁe.ɑ̃.ɡa.ʒe/	—
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

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