rémunérer

See also: remunerer

French

Alternative forms

rénumérer (proscribed)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin remūnerāre (“to recompense”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ʁe.my.ne.ʁe/
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Verb

rémunérer

to remunerate; pay back

Conjugation

This verb is conjugated like céder. It is a regular -er verb, except that its last stem vowel alternates between /e/ (written 'é') and /ɛ/ (written 'è'), with the latter being used before mute 'e'. One special case is the future stem, used in the future and the conditional. Before 1990, the future stem of such verbs was written rémunérer-, reflecting the historic pronunciation /e/. In 1990, the French Academy recommended that it be written rémunèrer-, reflecting the now common pronunciation /ɛ/, thereby making this distinction consistent throughout the conjugation (and also matching in this regard the conjugations of verbs like lever and jeter). Both spellings are in use today, and both are therefore given here.

Conjugation of rémunérer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	compound	avoir + past participle
infinitive	simple	rémunérer
present participle or gerund¹	simple	rémunérant /ʁe.my.ne.ʁɑ̃/
present participle or gerund¹	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		rémunéré /ʁe.my.ne.ʁe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	rémunère /ʁe.my.nɛʁ/	rémunères /ʁe.my.nɛʁ/	rémunère /ʁe.my.nɛʁ/	rémunérons /ʁe.my.ne.ʁɔ̃/	rémunérez /ʁe.my.ne.ʁe/	rémunèrent /ʁe.my.nɛʁ/
	imperfect	rémunérais /ʁe.my.ne.ʁɛ/	rémunérais /ʁe.my.ne.ʁɛ/	rémunérait /ʁe.my.ne.ʁɛ/	rémunérions /ʁe.my.ne.ʁjɔ̃/	rémunériez /ʁe.my.ne.ʁje/	rémunéraient /ʁe.my.ne.ʁɛ/
	past historic²	rémunérai /ʁe.my.ne.ʁe/	rémunéras /ʁe.my.ne.ʁa/	rémunéra /ʁe.my.ne.ʁa/	rémunérâmes /ʁe.my.ne.ʁam/	rémunérâtes /ʁe.my.ne.ʁat/	rémunérèrent /ʁe.my.ne.ʁɛʁ/
	future	rémunèrerai or rémunérerai /ʁe.my.nɛ.ʁə.ʁe/ or /ʁe.my.ne.ʁə.ʁe/	rémunèreras or rémunéreras /ʁe.my.nɛ.ʁə.ʁa/ or /ʁe.my.ne.ʁə.ʁa/	rémunèrera or rémunérera /ʁe.my.nɛ.ʁə.ʁa/ or /ʁe.my.ne.ʁə.ʁa/	rémunèrerons or rémunérerons /ʁe.my.nɛ.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ or /ʁe.my.ne.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/	rémunèrerez or rémunérerez /ʁe.my.nɛ.ʁə.ʁe/ or /ʁe.my.ne.ʁə.ʁe/	rémunèreront or rémunéreront /ʁe.my.nɛ.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ or /ʁe.my.ne.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	rémunèrerais or rémunérerais /ʁe.my.nɛ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ or /ʁe.my.ne.ʁə.ʁɛ/	rémunèrerais or rémunérerais /ʁe.my.nɛ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ or /ʁe.my.ne.ʁə.ʁɛ/	rémunèrerait or rémunérerait /ʁe.my.nɛ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ or /ʁe.my.ne.ʁə.ʁɛ/	rémunèrerions or rémunérerions /ʁe.my.nɛ.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /ʁe.my.ne.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/	rémunèreriez or rémunéreriez /ʁe.my.nɛ.ʁə.ʁje/ or /ʁe.my.ne.ʁə.ʁje/	rémunèreraient or rémunéreraient /ʁe.my.nɛ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ or /ʁe.my.ne.ʁə.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	rémunère /ʁe.my.nɛʁ/	rémunères /ʁe.my.nɛʁ/	rémunère /ʁe.my.nɛʁ/	rémunérions /ʁe.my.ne.ʁjɔ̃/	rémunériez /ʁe.my.ne.ʁje/	rémunèrent /ʁe.my.nɛʁ/
(simple tenses)	imperfect²	rémunérasse /ʁe.my.ne.ʁas/	rémunérasses /ʁe.my.ne.ʁas/	rémunérât /ʁe.my.ne.ʁa/	rémunérassions /ʁe.my.ne.ʁa.sjɔ̃/	rémunérassiez /ʁe.my.ne.ʁa.sje/	rémunérassent /ʁe.my.ne.ʁas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
(compound tenses)	pluperfect²	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	~~nous~~	~~vous~~	–
simple		—	rémunère /ʁe.my.nɛʁ/	—	rémunérons /ʁe.my.ne.ʁɔ̃/	rémunérez /ʁe.my.ne.ʁe/	—
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

rémunération