renvoyer
French edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
renvoyer
- to resend, retransmit; to send again
- to send back (to give back to the original sender)
- to give back, throw back, post back, bounce back, swing back etc.
- to put off, postpone (an appointment, a duty)
- to reflect (i.e. of a reflective surface)
- to echo (of sound, to come back)
- (transitive) to fire, dismiss, expel a student
- (followed by the preposition à) to refer (somebody to something)
- to remind (somebody of something)
Conjugation edit
This verb is one of a few verbs that conjugate like noyer, except in the future and conditional, where they conjugate like voir.
Conjugation of renvoyer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | renvoyer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | renvoyant /ʁɑ̃.vwa.jɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | renvoyé /ʁɑ̃.vwa.je/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | renvoie /ʁɑ̃.vwa/ |
renvoies /ʁɑ̃.vwa/ |
renvoie /ʁɑ̃.vwa/ |
renvoyons /ʁɑ̃.vwa.jɔ̃/ |
renvoyez /ʁɑ̃.vwa.je/ |
renvoient /ʁɑ̃.vwa/ |
| imperfect | renvoyais /ʁɑ̃.vwa.jɛ/ |
renvoyais /ʁɑ̃.vwa.jɛ/ |
renvoyait /ʁɑ̃.vwa.jɛ/ |
renvoyions /ʁɑ̃.vwaj.jɔ̃/ |
renvoyiez /ʁɑ̃.vwaj.je/ |
renvoyaient /ʁɑ̃.vwa.jɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | renvoyai /ʁɑ̃.vwa.je/ |
renvoyas /ʁɑ̃.vwa.ja/ |
renvoya /ʁɑ̃.vwa.ja/ |
renvoyâmes /ʁɑ̃.vwa.jam/ |
renvoyâtes /ʁɑ̃.vwa.jat/ |
renvoyèrent /ʁɑ̃.vwa.jɛʁ/ | |
| future | renverrai /ʁɑ̃.vɛ.ʁe/ or /ʁɑ̃.ve.ʁe/ |
renverras /ʁɑ̃.vɛ.ʁa/ or /ʁɑ̃.ve.ʁa/ |
renverra /ʁɑ̃.vɛ.ʁa/ or /ʁɑ̃.ve.ʁa/ |
renverrons /ʁɑ̃.vɛ.ʁɔ̃/ or /ʁɑ̃.ve.ʁɔ̃/ |
renverrez /ʁɑ̃.vɛ.ʁe/ or /ʁɑ̃.ve.ʁe/ |
renverront /ʁɑ̃.vɛ.ʁɔ̃/ or /ʁɑ̃.ve.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | renverrais /ʁɑ̃.vɛ.ʁɛ/ or /ʁɑ̃.ve.ʁɛ/ |
renverrais /ʁɑ̃.vɛ.ʁɛ/ or /ʁɑ̃.ve.ʁɛ/ |
renverrait /ʁɑ̃.vɛ.ʁɛ/ or /ʁɑ̃.ve.ʁɛ/ |
renverrions /ʁɑ̃.vɛ.ʁjɔ̃/ or /ʁɑ̃.ve.ʁjɔ̃/ |
renverriez /ʁɑ̃.vɛ.ʁje/ or /ʁɑ̃.ve.ʁje/ |
renverraient /ʁɑ̃.vɛ.ʁɛ/ or /ʁɑ̃.ve.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 | renvoie /ʁɑ̃.vwa/ |
renvoies /ʁɑ̃.vwa/ |
renvoie /ʁɑ̃.vwa/ |
renvoyions /ʁɑ̃.vwaj.jɔ̃/ |
renvoyiez /ʁɑ̃.vwaj.je/ |
renvoient /ʁɑ̃.vwa/ |
| imperfect2 | renvoyasse /ʁɑ̃.vwa.jas/ |
renvoyasses /ʁɑ̃.vwa.jas/ |
renvoyât /ʁɑ̃.vwa.ja/ |
renvoyassions /ʁɑ̃.vwa.ja.sjɔ̃/ |
renvoyassiez /ʁɑ̃.vwa.ja.sje/ |
renvoyassent /ʁɑ̃.vwa.jas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | renvoie /ʁɑ̃.vwa/ |
— | renvoyons /ʁɑ̃.vwa.jɔ̃/ |
renvoyez /ʁɑ̃.vwa.je/ |
— | |
| 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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “renvoyer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.