reverdir

French

Etymology

From re- +‎ verdir.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁə.vɛʁ.diʁ/

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Verb

reverdir

1. to turn green again (of trees, plants, etc.)

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 reverdir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	reverdir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	reverdissant /ʁə.vɛʁ.di.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		reverdi /ʁə.vɛʁ.di/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	reverdis /ʁə.vɛʁ.di/	reverdis /ʁə.vɛʁ.di/	reverdit /ʁə.vɛʁ.di/	reverdissons /ʁə.vɛʁ.di.sɔ̃/	reverdissez /ʁə.vɛʁ.di.se/	reverdissent /ʁə.vɛʁ.dis/
	imperfect	reverdissais /ʁə.vɛʁ.di.sɛ/	reverdissais /ʁə.vɛʁ.di.sɛ/	reverdissait /ʁə.vɛʁ.di.sɛ/	reverdissions /ʁə.vɛʁ.di.sjɔ̃/	reverdissiez /ʁə.vɛʁ.di.sje/	reverdissaient /ʁə.vɛʁ.di.sɛ/
	past historic2	reverdis /ʁə.vɛʁ.di/	reverdis /ʁə.vɛʁ.di/	reverdit /ʁə.vɛʁ.di/	reverdîmes /ʁə.vɛʁ.dim/	reverdîtes /ʁə.vɛʁ.dit/	reverdirent /ʁə.vɛʁ.diʁ/
	future	reverdirai /ʁə.vɛʁ.di.ʁe/	reverdiras /ʁə.vɛʁ.di.ʁa/	reverdira /ʁə.vɛʁ.di.ʁa/	reverdirons /ʁə.vɛʁ.di.ʁɔ̃/	reverdirez /ʁə.vɛʁ.di.ʁe/	reverdiront /ʁə.vɛʁ.di.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	reverdirais /ʁə.vɛʁ.di.ʁɛ/	reverdirais /ʁə.vɛʁ.di.ʁɛ/	reverdirait /ʁə.vɛʁ.di.ʁɛ/	reverdirions /ʁə.vɛʁ.di.ʁjɔ̃/	reverdiriez /ʁə.vɛʁ.di.ʁje/	reverdiraient /ʁə.vɛʁ.di.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	reverdisse /ʁə.vɛʁ.dis/	reverdisses /ʁə.vɛʁ.dis/	reverdisse /ʁə.vɛʁ.dis/	reverdissions /ʁə.vɛʁ.di.sjɔ̃/	reverdissiez /ʁə.vɛʁ.di.sje/	reverdissent /ʁə.vɛʁ.dis/
	imperfect2	reverdisse /ʁə.vɛʁ.dis/	reverdisses /ʁə.vɛʁ.dis/	reverdît /ʁə.vɛʁ.di/	reverdissions /ʁə.vɛʁ.di.sjɔ̃/	reverdissiez /ʁə.vɛʁ.di.sje/	reverdissent /ʁə.vɛʁ.dis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	reverdis /ʁə.vɛʁ.di/	—	reverdissons /ʁə.vɛʁ.di.sɔ̃/	reverdissez /ʁə.vɛʁ.di.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

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

Old Occitan

Etymology

From re- +‎ verdir. Gallo-Romance cognate with Old French reverdir.

Verb

reverdir

1. to turn green again (of trees, plants, etc.)