réjouir

See also: rejouir

French

Etymology

From Old French resjoir, corresponding to ré- +‎ jouir.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁe.ʒwiʁ/

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Verb

réjouir

1. to please; to delight
2. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to rejoice, celebrate

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 réjouir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	réjouir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	réjouissant /ʁe.ʒwi.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		réjoui /ʁe.ʒwi/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	réjouis /ʁe.ʒwi/	réjouis /ʁe.ʒwi/	réjouit /ʁe.ʒwi/	réjouissons /ʁe.ʒwi.sɔ̃/	réjouissez /ʁe.ʒwi.se/	réjouissent /ʁe.ʒwis/
	imperfect	réjouissais /ʁe.ʒwi.sɛ/	réjouissais /ʁe.ʒwi.sɛ/	réjouissait /ʁe.ʒwi.sɛ/	réjouissions /ʁe.ʒwi.sjɔ̃/	réjouissiez /ʁe.ʒwi.sje/	réjouissaient /ʁe.ʒwi.sɛ/
	past historic2	réjouis /ʁe.ʒwi/	réjouis /ʁe.ʒwi/	réjouit /ʁe.ʒwi/	réjouîmes /ʁe.ʒwim/	réjouîtes /ʁe.ʒwit/	réjouirent /ʁe.ʒwiʁ/
	future	réjouirai /ʁe.ʒwi.ʁe/	réjouiras /ʁe.ʒwi.ʁa/	réjouira /ʁe.ʒwi.ʁa/	réjouirons /ʁe.ʒwi.ʁɔ̃/	réjouirez /ʁe.ʒwi.ʁe/	réjouiront /ʁe.ʒwi.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	réjouirais /ʁe.ʒwi.ʁɛ/	réjouirais /ʁe.ʒwi.ʁɛ/	réjouirait /ʁe.ʒwi.ʁɛ/	réjouirions /ʁe.ʒwi.ʁjɔ̃/	réjouiriez /ʁe.ʒwi.ʁje/	réjouiraient /ʁe.ʒwi.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	réjouisse /ʁe.ʒwis/	réjouisses /ʁe.ʒwis/	réjouisse /ʁe.ʒwis/	réjouissions /ʁe.ʒwi.sjɔ̃/	réjouissiez /ʁe.ʒwi.sje/	réjouissent /ʁe.ʒwis/
	imperfect2	réjouisse /ʁe.ʒwis/	réjouisses /ʁe.ʒwis/	réjouît /ʁe.ʒwi/	réjouissions /ʁe.ʒwi.sjɔ̃/	réjouissiez /ʁe.ʒwi.sje/	réjouissent /ʁe.ʒwis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	réjouis /ʁe.ʒwi/	—	réjouissons /ʁe.ʒwi.sɔ̃/	réjouissez /ʁe.ʒwi.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).

Derived terms

• réjouissant

Further reading

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