rebâtir

See also: rebatir

French

Pronunciation

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Verb

rebâtir

1. to rebuild

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 rebâtir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	rebâtir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	rebâtissant /ʁə.ba.ti.sɑ̃/ or /ʁə.bɑ.ti.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		rebâti /ʁə.ba.ti/ or /ʁə.bɑ.ti/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	rebâtis /ʁə.ba.ti/ or /ʁə.bɑ.ti/	rebâtis /ʁə.ba.ti/ or /ʁə.bɑ.ti/	rebâtit /ʁə.ba.ti/ or /ʁə.bɑ.ti/	rebâtissons /ʁə.ba.ti.sɔ̃/ or /ʁə.bɑ.ti.sɔ̃/	rebâtissez /ʁə.ba.ti.se/ or /ʁə.bɑ.ti.se/	rebâtissent /ʁə.ba.tis/ or /ʁə.bɑ.tis/
	imperfect	rebâtissais /ʁə.ba.ti.sɛ/ or /ʁə.bɑ.ti.sɛ/	rebâtissais /ʁə.ba.ti.sɛ/ or /ʁə.bɑ.ti.sɛ/	rebâtissait /ʁə.ba.ti.sɛ/ or /ʁə.bɑ.ti.sɛ/	rebâtissions /ʁə.ba.ti.sjɔ̃/ or /ʁə.bɑ.ti.sjɔ̃/	rebâtissiez /ʁə.ba.ti.sje/ or /ʁə.bɑ.ti.sje/	rebâtissaient /ʁə.ba.ti.sɛ/ or /ʁə.bɑ.ti.sɛ/
	past historic2	rebâtis /ʁə.ba.ti/ or /ʁə.bɑ.ti/	rebâtis /ʁə.ba.ti/ or /ʁə.bɑ.ti/	rebâtit /ʁə.ba.ti/ or /ʁə.bɑ.ti/	rebâtîmes /ʁə.ba.tim/ or /ʁə.bɑ.tim/	rebâtîtes /ʁə.ba.tit/ or /ʁə.bɑ.tit/	rebâtirent /ʁə.ba.tiʁ/ or /ʁə.bɑ.tiʁ/
	future	rebâtirai /ʁə.ba.ti.ʁe/ or /ʁə.bɑ.ti.ʁe/	rebâtiras /ʁə.ba.ti.ʁa/ or /ʁə.bɑ.ti.ʁa/	rebâtira /ʁə.ba.ti.ʁa/ or /ʁə.bɑ.ti.ʁa/	rebâtirons /ʁə.ba.ti.ʁɔ̃/ or /ʁə.bɑ.ti.ʁɔ̃/	rebâtirez /ʁə.ba.ti.ʁe/ or /ʁə.bɑ.ti.ʁe/	rebâtiront /ʁə.ba.ti.ʁɔ̃/ or /ʁə.bɑ.ti.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	rebâtirais /ʁə.ba.ti.ʁɛ/ or /ʁə.bɑ.ti.ʁɛ/	rebâtirais /ʁə.ba.ti.ʁɛ/ or /ʁə.bɑ.ti.ʁɛ/	rebâtirait /ʁə.ba.ti.ʁɛ/ or /ʁə.bɑ.ti.ʁɛ/	rebâtirions /ʁə.ba.ti.ʁjɔ̃/ or /ʁə.bɑ.ti.ʁjɔ̃/	rebâtiriez /ʁə.ba.ti.ʁje/ or /ʁə.bɑ.ti.ʁje/	rebâtiraient /ʁə.ba.ti.ʁɛ/ or /ʁə.bɑ.ti.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	rebâtisse /ʁə.ba.tis/ or /ʁə.bɑ.tis/	rebâtisses /ʁə.ba.tis/ or /ʁə.bɑ.tis/	rebâtisse /ʁə.ba.tis/ or /ʁə.bɑ.tis/	rebâtissions /ʁə.ba.ti.sjɔ̃/ or /ʁə.bɑ.ti.sjɔ̃/	rebâtissiez /ʁə.ba.ti.sje/ or /ʁə.bɑ.ti.sje/	rebâtissent /ʁə.ba.tis/ or /ʁə.bɑ.tis/
	imperfect2	rebâtisse /ʁə.ba.tis/ or /ʁə.bɑ.tis/	rebâtisses /ʁə.ba.tis/ or /ʁə.bɑ.tis/	rebâtît /ʁə.ba.ti/ or /ʁə.bɑ.ti/	rebâtissions /ʁə.ba.ti.sjɔ̃/ or /ʁə.bɑ.ti.sjɔ̃/	rebâtissiez /ʁə.ba.ti.sje/ or /ʁə.bɑ.ti.sje/	rebâtissent /ʁə.ba.tis/ or /ʁə.bɑ.tis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	rebâtis /ʁə.ba.ti/ or /ʁə.bɑ.ti/	—	rebâtissons /ʁə.ba.ti.sɔ̃/ or /ʁə.bɑ.ti.sɔ̃/	rebâtissez /ʁə.ba.ti.se/ or /ʁə.bɑ.ti.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).

Further reading

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