redescendre

French

Etymology

From re- +‎ descendre (“to descend/go down”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁə.de.sɑ̃dʁ/

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Verb

redescendre

1. to come back down, to go back down (to descend shortly after having gone up)
2. to redescend (to descend a second time)

Usage notes

• This verb uses the auxiliary verb avoir when used transitively (or with a transitive sense, even when the complement is omitted); otherwise (when it is intransitive), it uses être.

  il est redescendu du sommet ― he came back down from the summit

  elle a redescendu l’ordinateur ― she got the computer back down

Conjugation

Conjugation of redescendre (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	redescendre
	compound	avoir or être + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	redescendant /ʁə.de.sɑ̃.dɑ̃/
	compound	ayant or étant + past participle
past participle		redescendu /ʁə.de.sɑ̃.dy/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	redescends /ʁə.de.sɑ̃/	redescends /ʁə.de.sɑ̃/	redescend /ʁə.de.sɑ̃/	redescendons /ʁə.de.sɑ̃.dɔ̃/	redescendez /ʁə.de.sɑ̃.de/	redescendent /ʁə.de.sɑ̃d/
	imperfect	redescendais /ʁə.de.sɑ̃.dɛ/	redescendais /ʁə.de.sɑ̃.dɛ/	redescendait /ʁə.de.sɑ̃.dɛ/	redescendions /ʁə.de.sɑ̃.djɔ̃/	redescendiez /ʁə.de.sɑ̃.dje/	redescendaient /ʁə.de.sɑ̃.dɛ/
	past historic2	redescendis /ʁə.de.sɑ̃.di/	redescendis /ʁə.de.sɑ̃.di/	redescendit /ʁə.de.sɑ̃.di/	redescendîmes /ʁə.de.sɑ̃.dim/	redescendîtes /ʁə.de.sɑ̃.dit/	redescendirent /ʁə.de.sɑ̃.diʁ/
	future	redescendrai /ʁə.de.sɑ̃.dʁe/	redescendras /ʁə.de.sɑ̃.dʁa/	redescendra /ʁə.de.sɑ̃.dʁa/	redescendrons /ʁə.de.sɑ̃.dʁɔ̃/	redescendrez /ʁə.de.sɑ̃.dʁe/	redescendront /ʁə.de.sɑ̃.dʁɔ̃/
	conditional	redescendrais /ʁə.de.sɑ̃.dʁɛ/	redescendrais /ʁə.de.sɑ̃.dʁɛ/	redescendrait /ʁə.de.sɑ̃.dʁɛ/	redescendrions /ʁə.de.sɑ̃.dʁi.jɔ̃/	redescendriez /ʁə.de.sɑ̃.dʁi.je/	redescendraient /ʁə.de.sɑ̃.dʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir or être + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir or être + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir or être + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir or être + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir or être + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	redescende /ʁə.de.sɑ̃d/	redescendes /ʁə.de.sɑ̃d/	redescende /ʁə.de.sɑ̃d/	redescendions /ʁə.de.sɑ̃.djɔ̃/	redescendiez /ʁə.de.sɑ̃.dje/	redescendent /ʁə.de.sɑ̃d/
	imperfect2	redescendisse /ʁə.de.sɑ̃.dis/	redescendisses /ʁə.de.sɑ̃.dis/	redescendît /ʁə.de.sɑ̃.di/	redescendissions /ʁə.de.sɑ̃.di.sjɔ̃/	redescendissiez /ʁə.de.sɑ̃.di.sje/	redescendissent /ʁə.de.sɑ̃.dis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir or être + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir or être + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	redescends /ʁə.de.sɑ̃/	—	redescendons /ʁə.de.sɑ̃.dɔ̃/	redescendez /ʁə.de.sɑ̃.de/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir or être + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir or être + past participle	simple imperative of avoir or être + 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

• redescendre sur terre

Further reading

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