relaver

French

Etymology

From re- +‎ laver.

Pronunciation

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Verb

relaver

1. to rewash

Conjugation

Conjugation of relaver (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	relaver
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	relavant /ʁə.la.vɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		relavé /ʁə.la.ve/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	relave /ʁə.lav/	relaves /ʁə.lav/	relave /ʁə.lav/	relavons /ʁə.la.vɔ̃/	relavez /ʁə.la.ve/	relavent /ʁə.lav/
	imperfect	relavais /ʁə.la.vɛ/	relavais /ʁə.la.vɛ/	relavait /ʁə.la.vɛ/	relavions /ʁə.la.vjɔ̃/	relaviez /ʁə.la.vje/	relavaient /ʁə.la.vɛ/
	past historic2	relavai /ʁə.la.ve/	relavas /ʁə.la.va/	relava /ʁə.la.va/	relavâmes /ʁə.la.vam/	relavâtes /ʁə.la.vat/	relavèrent /ʁə.la.vɛʁ/
	future	relaverai /ʁə.la.vʁe/	relaveras /ʁə.la.vʁa/	relavera /ʁə.la.vʁa/	relaverons /ʁə.la.vʁɔ̃/	relaverez /ʁə.la.vʁe/	relaveront /ʁə.la.vʁɔ̃/
	conditional	relaverais /ʁə.la.vʁɛ/	relaverais /ʁə.la.vʁɛ/	relaverait /ʁə.la.vʁɛ/	relaverions /ʁə.la.və.ʁjɔ̃/	relaveriez /ʁə.la.və.ʁje/	relaveraient /ʁə.la.vʁɛ/
(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	relave /ʁə.lav/	relaves /ʁə.lav/	relave /ʁə.lav/	relavions /ʁə.la.vjɔ̃/	relaviez /ʁə.la.vje/	relavent /ʁə.lav/
	imperfect2	relavasse /ʁə.la.vas/	relavasses /ʁə.la.vas/	relavât /ʁə.la.va/	relavassions /ʁə.la.va.sjɔ̃/	relavassiez /ʁə.la.va.sje/	relavassent /ʁə.la.vas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	relave /ʁə.lav/	—	relavons /ʁə.la.vɔ̃/	relavez /ʁə.la.ve/	—
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

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