réunir

See also: reunir

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁe.y.niʁ/

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Verb

réunir

1. (transitive) to gather, collect
2. (transitive) to bring together
3. (reflexive, se réunir) to meet
4. (reflexive, se réunir) to come together

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 réunir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	réunir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	réunissant /ʁe.y.ni.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		réuni /ʁe.y.ni/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	réunis /ʁe.y.ni/	réunis /ʁe.y.ni/	réunit /ʁe.y.ni/	réunissons /ʁe.y.ni.sɔ̃/	réunissez /ʁe.y.ni.se/	réunissent /ʁe.y.nis/
	imperfect	réunissais /ʁe.y.ni.sɛ/	réunissais /ʁe.y.ni.sɛ/	réunissait /ʁe.y.ni.sɛ/	réunissions /ʁe.y.ni.sjɔ̃/	réunissiez /ʁe.y.ni.sje/	réunissaient /ʁe.y.ni.sɛ/
	past historic2	réunis /ʁe.y.ni/	réunis /ʁe.y.ni/	réunit /ʁe.y.ni/	réunîmes /ʁe.y.nim/	réunîtes /ʁe.y.nit/	réunirent /ʁe.y.niʁ/
	future	réunirai /ʁe.y.ni.ʁe/	réuniras /ʁe.y.ni.ʁa/	réunira /ʁe.y.ni.ʁa/	réunirons /ʁe.y.ni.ʁɔ̃/	réunirez /ʁe.y.ni.ʁe/	réuniront /ʁe.y.ni.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	réunirais /ʁe.y.ni.ʁɛ/	réunirais /ʁe.y.ni.ʁɛ/	réunirait /ʁe.y.ni.ʁɛ/	réunirions /ʁe.y.ni.ʁjɔ̃/	réuniriez /ʁe.y.ni.ʁje/	réuniraient /ʁe.y.ni.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	réunisse /ʁe.y.nis/	réunisses /ʁe.y.nis/	réunisse /ʁe.y.nis/	réunissions /ʁe.y.ni.sjɔ̃/	réunissiez /ʁe.y.ni.sje/	réunissent /ʁe.y.nis/
	imperfect2	réunisse /ʁe.y.nis/	réunisses /ʁe.y.nis/	réunît /ʁe.y.ni/	réunissions /ʁe.y.ni.sjɔ̃/	réunissiez /ʁe.y.ni.sje/	réunissent /ʁe.y.nis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	réunis /ʁe.y.ni/	—	réunissons /ʁe.y.ni.sɔ̃/	réunissez /ʁe.y.ni.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).

Synonyms

• rassembler

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• ruiner, uriner