revivre

French

Etymology

From Latin revīvō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁə.vivʁ/

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• Rhymes: -ivʁ

Verb

revivre

1. (intransitive) to live again; to relive

   Je revis avec ma mère.

   I'm living with my mother again.

2. (transitive) to relive (experience again)

Conjugation

Conjugation of revivre (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	revivre
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	revivant /ʁə.vi.vɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		revécu /ʁə.ve.ky/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	revis /ʁə.vi/	revis /ʁə.vi/	revit /ʁə.vi/	revivons /ʁə.vi.vɔ̃/	revivez /ʁə.vi.ve/	revivent /ʁə.viv/
	imperfect	revivais /ʁə.vi.vɛ/	revivais /ʁə.vi.vɛ/	revivait /ʁə.vi.vɛ/	revivions /ʁə.vi.vjɔ̃/	reviviez /ʁə.vi.vje/	revivaient /ʁə.vi.vɛ/
	past historic2	revécus /ʁə.ve.ky/	revécus /ʁə.ve.ky/	revécut /ʁə.ve.ky/	revécûmes /ʁə.ve.kym/	revécûtes /ʁə.ve.kyt/	revécurent /ʁə.ve.kyʁ/
	future	revivrai /ʁə.vi.vʁe/	revivras /ʁə.vi.vʁa/	revivra /ʁə.vi.vʁa/	revivrons /ʁə.vi.vʁɔ̃/	revivrez /ʁə.vi.vʁe/	revivront /ʁə.vi.vʁɔ̃/
	conditional	revivrais /ʁə.vi.vʁɛ/	revivrais /ʁə.vi.vʁɛ/	revivrait /ʁə.vi.vʁɛ/	revivrions /ʁə.vi.vʁi.jɔ̃/	revivriez /ʁə.vi.vʁi.je/	revivraient /ʁə.vi.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	revive /ʁə.viv/	revives /ʁə.viv/	revive /ʁə.viv/	revivions /ʁə.vi.vjɔ̃/	reviviez /ʁə.vi.vje/	revivent /ʁə.viv/
	imperfect2	revécusse /ʁə.ve.kys/	revécusses /ʁə.ve.kys/	revécût /ʁə.ve.ky/	revécussions /ʁə.ve.ky.sjɔ̃/	revécussiez /ʁə.ve.ky.sje/	revécussent /ʁə.ve.kys/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	revis /ʁə.vi/	—	revivons /ʁə.vi.vɔ̃/	revivez /ʁə.vi.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).

Derived terms

• faire revivre (“to revive”)

Related terms

• vivre

Further reading

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