retentir
French edit
Etymology edit
From re- + Old French tentir, from *tinnitire, from a participle form of Latin tinnire.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
retentir
- (intransitive) to ring, to ring out
- Synonym: résonner
- (intransitive, figurative) to have a strong effect
Conjugation edit
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 retentir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | retentir | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | retentissant /ʁə.tɑ̃.ti.sɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | retenti /ʁə.tɑ̃.ti/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | retentis /ʁə.tɑ̃.ti/ |
retentis /ʁə.tɑ̃.ti/ |
retentit /ʁə.tɑ̃.ti/ |
retentissons /ʁə.tɑ̃.ti.sɔ̃/ |
retentissez /ʁə.tɑ̃.ti.se/ |
retentissent /ʁə.tɑ̃.tis/ |
| imperfect | retentissais /ʁə.tɑ̃.ti.sɛ/ |
retentissais /ʁə.tɑ̃.ti.sɛ/ |
retentissait /ʁə.tɑ̃.ti.sɛ/ |
retentissions /ʁə.tɑ̃.ti.sjɔ̃/ |
retentissiez /ʁə.tɑ̃.ti.sje/ |
retentissaient /ʁə.tɑ̃.ti.sɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | retentis /ʁə.tɑ̃.ti/ |
retentis /ʁə.tɑ̃.ti/ |
retentit /ʁə.tɑ̃.ti/ |
retentîmes /ʁə.tɑ̃.tim/ |
retentîtes /ʁə.tɑ̃.tit/ |
retentirent /ʁə.tɑ̃.tiʁ/ | |
| future | retentirai /ʁə.tɑ̃.ti.ʁe/ |
retentiras /ʁə.tɑ̃.ti.ʁa/ |
retentira /ʁə.tɑ̃.ti.ʁa/ |
retentirons /ʁə.tɑ̃.ti.ʁɔ̃/ |
retentirez /ʁə.tɑ̃.ti.ʁe/ |
retentiront /ʁə.tɑ̃.ti.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | retentirais /ʁə.tɑ̃.ti.ʁɛ/ |
retentirais /ʁə.tɑ̃.ti.ʁɛ/ |
retentirait /ʁə.tɑ̃.ti.ʁɛ/ |
retentirions /ʁə.tɑ̃.ti.ʁjɔ̃/ |
retentiriez /ʁə.tɑ̃.ti.ʁje/ |
retentiraient /ʁə.tɑ̃.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 | retentisse /ʁə.tɑ̃.tis/ |
retentisses /ʁə.tɑ̃.tis/ |
retentisse /ʁə.tɑ̃.tis/ |
retentissions /ʁə.tɑ̃.ti.sjɔ̃/ |
retentissiez /ʁə.tɑ̃.ti.sje/ |
retentissent /ʁə.tɑ̃.tis/ |
| imperfect2 | retentisse /ʁə.tɑ̃.tis/ |
retentisses /ʁə.tɑ̃.tis/ |
retentît /ʁə.tɑ̃.ti/ |
retentissions /ʁə.tɑ̃.ti.sjɔ̃/ |
retentissiez /ʁə.tɑ̃.ti.sje/ |
retentissent /ʁə.tɑ̃.tis/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | retentis /ʁə.tɑ̃.ti/ |
— | retentissons /ʁə.tɑ̃.ti.sɔ̃/ |
retentissez /ʁə.tɑ̃.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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “retentir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.