redécouvrir

French edit

Etymology edit

From re- +‎ découvrir.

Pronunciation edit

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Verb edit

redécouvrir

to rediscover

Conjugation edit

This verb is conjugated like ouvrir and offrir. It is conjugated like a regular -er verb in the present and imperfect indicative, present subjunctive, imperative, and present participle; it is conjugated like a regular -ir verb in the infinitive, future indicative, conditional, past historic, and imperfect subjunctive; and its past participle redécouvert is irregular.

Conjugation of redécouvrir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	compound	avoir + past participle
infinitive	simple	redécouvrir
present participle or gerund¹	simple	redécouvrant /ʁə.de.ku.vʁɑ̃/
present participle or gerund¹	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		redécouvert /ʁə.de.ku.vɛʁ/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	redécouvre /ʁə.de.kuvʁ/	redécouvres /ʁə.de.kuvʁ/	redécouvre /ʁə.de.kuvʁ/	redécouvrons /ʁə.de.ku.vʁɔ̃/	redécouvrez /ʁə.de.ku.vʁe/	redécouvrent /ʁə.de.kuvʁ/
	imperfect	redécouvrais /ʁə.de.ku.vʁɛ/	redécouvrais /ʁə.de.ku.vʁɛ/	redécouvrait /ʁə.de.ku.vʁɛ/	redécouvrions /ʁə.de.ku.vʁi.jɔ̃/	redécouvriez /ʁə.de.ku.vʁi.je/	redécouvraient /ʁə.de.ku.vʁɛ/
	past historic²	redécouvris /ʁə.de.ku.vʁi/	redécouvris /ʁə.de.ku.vʁi/	redécouvrit /ʁə.de.ku.vʁi/	redécouvrîmes /ʁə.de.ku.vʁim/	redécouvrîtes /ʁə.de.ku.vʁit/	redécouvrirent /ʁə.de.ku.vʁiʁ/
	future	redécouvrirai /ʁə.de.ku.vʁi.ʁe/	redécouvriras /ʁə.de.ku.vʁi.ʁa/	redécouvrira /ʁə.de.ku.vʁi.ʁa/	redécouvrirons /ʁə.de.ku.vʁi.ʁɔ̃/	redécouvrirez /ʁə.de.ku.vʁi.ʁe/	redécouvriront /ʁə.de.ku.vʁi.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	redécouvrirais /ʁə.de.ku.vʁi.ʁɛ/	redécouvrirais /ʁə.de.ku.vʁi.ʁɛ/	redécouvrirait /ʁə.de.ku.vʁi.ʁɛ/	redécouvririons /ʁə.de.ku.vʁi.ʁjɔ̃/	redécouvririez /ʁə.de.ku.vʁi.ʁje/	redécouvriraient /ʁə.de.ku.vʁi.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	redécouvre /ʁə.de.kuvʁ/	redécouvres /ʁə.de.kuvʁ/	redécouvre /ʁə.de.kuvʁ/	redécouvrions /ʁə.de.ku.vʁi.jɔ̃/	redécouvriez /ʁə.de.ku.vʁi.je/	redécouvrent /ʁə.de.kuvʁ/
(simple tenses)	imperfect²	redécouvrisse /ʁə.de.ku.vʁis/	redécouvrisses /ʁə.de.ku.vʁis/	redécouvrît /ʁə.de.ku.vʁi/	redécouvrissions /ʁə.de.ku.vʁi.sjɔ̃/	redécouvrissiez /ʁə.de.ku.vʁi.sje/	redécouvrissent /ʁə.de.ku.vʁis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
(compound tenses)	pluperfect²	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	~~nous~~	~~vous~~	–
simple		—	redécouvre /ʁə.de.kuvʁ/	—	redécouvrons /ʁə.de.ku.vʁɔ̃/	redécouvrez /ʁə.de.ku.vʁe/	—
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).