reêtre

French

Alternative forms

re-être

Etymology

From re- +‎ être.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ʁə.ɛtʁ/

Verb

re être

(rare) to re be, to be another time

Usage notes

Rarely used, expressions like être de nouveau are more common.

Conjugation

Conjugation of reêtre (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	compound	avoir + past participle
infinitive	simple	reêtre
present participle or gerund¹	simple	reétant /ʁə.e.tɑ̃/
present participle or gerund¹	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		reété /ʁə.e.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	resuis /ʁə.sɥi/	rees /ʁə.ɛ/	reest /ʁə.ɛ/	resommes /ʁə.sɔm/	reêtes /ʁə.ɛt/	resont /ʁə.sɔ̃/
	imperfect	reétais /ʁə.e.tɛ/	reétais /ʁə.e.tɛ/	reétait /ʁə.e.tɛ/	reétions /ʁə.e.tjɔ̃/	reétiez /ʁə.e.tje/	reétaient /ʁə.e.tɛ/
	past historic²	refus /ʁə.fy/	refus /ʁə.fy/	refut /ʁə.fy/	refûmes /ʁə.fym/	refûtes /ʁə.fyt/	refurent /ʁə.fyʁ/
	future	reserai /ʁə.s(ə).ʁe/	reseras /ʁə.s(ə).ʁa/	resera /ʁə.s(ə).ʁa/	reserons /ʁə.s(ə).ʁɔ̃/	reserez /ʁə.s(ə).ʁe/	reseront /ʁə.s(ə).ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	reserais /ʁə.s(ə).ʁɛ/	reserais /ʁə.s(ə).ʁɛ/	reserait /ʁə.s(ə).ʁɛ/	reserions /ʁə.sə.ʁjɔ̃/	reseriez /ʁə.sə.ʁje/	reseraient /ʁə.s(ə).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	resois /ʁə.swa/	resois /ʁə.swa/	resoit /ʁə.swa/	resoyons /ʁə.swa.jɔ̃/	resoyez /ʁə.swa.je/	resoient /ʁə.swa/
(simple tenses)	imperfect²	refusse /ʁə.fys/	refusses /ʁə.fys/	refût /ʁə.fy/	refussions /ʁə.fy.sjɔ̃/	refussiez /ʁə.fy.sje/	refussent /ʁə.fys/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
(compound tenses)	pluperfect²	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	~~nous~~	~~vous~~	–
simple		—	resois /ʁə.swa/	—	resoyons /ʁə.swa.jɔ̃/	resoyez /ʁə.swa.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: 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).