rentrer
French edit
Etymology edit
From Old French, re- + entrer.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
rentrer
- (intransitive, followed by dans) to go back, to re-enter
- rentrer dans la salle
- go back in(to) the room/re-enter the room
- (intransitive) to go (back) home, to come (back) home
- À trois heures du matin, je suis rentré(e) chez moi.
- At three in the morning, I went home.
- (intransitive) to get in, to go in, to fit in
- Ses chaussures ne rentrent pas dans son sac.
- Her shoes don't fit in her bag.
- (transitive) to bring in, to get in, to put in
- Rentre ta monnaie dans ta poche.
- Put your change in your pocket.
- (transitive) to score (a goal)
- (intransitive, followed by dans or dedans) to collide (with), crash (into), run (into)
- Fais attention! Tu as failli me rentrer dedans!
- Watch out! You nearly ran into me!
- 2023, Ariane Lacoursière, Caroline Touzin, “Tragédie dans une garderie de Laval : « Un autobus est rentré dans une garderie… »”, in La Presse:
- Chez les ambulanciers toujours sur place, une rumeur se met à circuler une trentaine de minutes plus tard : « Un autobus est rentré dans une garderie » dans le quartier Sainte-Rose.
- Among the paramedics still on site, a rumour began to spread about half an hour later: "A bus has crashed into a daycare centre" in the Sainte-Rose neighbourhood.
Usage notes edit
- This verb uses the auxiliary verb avoir when used transitively (or with a transitive sense, even when the complement is omitted); otherwise (when it is intransitive), it uses être.
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of rentrer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | rentrer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir or être + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | rentrant /ʁɑ̃.tʁɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant or étant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | rentré /ʁɑ̃.tʁe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | rentre /ʁɑ̃tʁ/ |
rentres /ʁɑ̃tʁ/ |
rentre /ʁɑ̃tʁ/ |
rentrons /ʁɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/ |
rentrez /ʁɑ̃.tʁe/ |
rentrent /ʁɑ̃tʁ/ |
| imperfect | rentrais /ʁɑ̃.tʁɛ/ |
rentrais /ʁɑ̃.tʁɛ/ |
rentrait /ʁɑ̃.tʁɛ/ |
rentrions /ʁɑ̃.tʁi.jɔ̃/ |
rentriez /ʁɑ̃.tʁi.je/ |
rentraient /ʁɑ̃.tʁɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | rentrai /ʁɑ̃.tʁe/ |
rentras /ʁɑ̃.tʁa/ |
rentra /ʁɑ̃.tʁa/ |
rentrâmes /ʁɑ̃.tʁam/ |
rentrâtes /ʁɑ̃.tʁat/ |
rentrèrent /ʁɑ̃.tʁɛʁ/ | |
| future | rentrerai /ʁɑ̃.tʁə.ʁe/ |
rentreras /ʁɑ̃.tʁə.ʁa/ |
rentrera /ʁɑ̃.tʁə.ʁa/ |
rentrerons /ʁɑ̃.tʁə.ʁɔ̃/ |
rentrerez /ʁɑ̃.tʁə.ʁe/ |
rentreront /ʁɑ̃.tʁə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | rentrerais /ʁɑ̃.tʁə.ʁɛ/ |
rentrerais /ʁɑ̃.tʁə.ʁɛ/ |
rentrerait /ʁɑ̃.tʁə.ʁɛ/ |
rentrerions /ʁɑ̃.tʁə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
rentreriez /ʁɑ̃.tʁə.ʁje/ |
rentreraient /ʁɑ̃.tʁə.ʁɛ/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir or être + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir or être + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior2 | past historic of avoir or être + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future of avoir or être + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional of avoir or être + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | rentre /ʁɑ̃tʁ/ |
rentres /ʁɑ̃tʁ/ |
rentre /ʁɑ̃tʁ/ |
rentrions /ʁɑ̃.tʁi.jɔ̃/ |
rentriez /ʁɑ̃.tʁi.je/ |
rentrent /ʁɑ̃tʁ/ |
| imperfect2 | rentrasse /ʁɑ̃.tʁas/ |
rentrasses /ʁɑ̃.tʁas/ |
rentrât /ʁɑ̃.tʁa/ |
rentrassions /ʁɑ̃.tʁa.sjɔ̃/ |
rentrassiez /ʁɑ̃.tʁa.sje/ |
rentrassent /ʁɑ̃.tʁas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir or être + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir or être + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | rentre /ʁɑ̃tʁ/ |
— | rentrons /ʁɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/ |
rentrez /ʁɑ̃.tʁe/ |
— | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir or être + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir or être + past participle | simple imperative of avoir or être + 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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- “rentrer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Norman edit
Etymology edit
From Old French re- (“again”) + entrer (“to enter”).
Pronunciation edit
Audio (Jersey) (file)
Verb edit
rentrer