rentrer
French
Etymology
From Old French, re- + entrer.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʁɑ̃.tʁe/
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Verb
rentrer
- (intransitive, followed by dans) to go back, to re-enter
- rentrer dans la salle
- go back in(to) the room/ re-enter the room
- rentrer dans la salle
- (intransitive) to go (back) home, to come (back) home
- À trois heures du matin, je suis rentré chez moi.
- At three in the morning, I went home.
- À trois heures du matin, je suis rentré chez moi.
- (intransitive) to get in, to go in, to fit in
- Ses chaussures ne rentrent pas dans son sac.
- Her shoes don't fit in her bag.
- Ses chaussures ne rentrent pas dans son sac.
- (transitive) to bring in, to get in, to put in
- Rentre ta monnaie dans ta poche.
- Put your change in your pocket.
- Rentre ta monnaie dans ta poche.
- (transitive) to score (a goal)
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.
Conjugation
Conjugation of rentrer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| present participle | rentrant /ʁɑ̃.tʁɑ̃/ | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| past participle | rentré /ʁɑ̃.tʁe/ | ||||||
| infinitive | |||||||
| simple | rentrer | ||||||
| compound | avoir or être + past participle | ||||||
| gerund1 | |||||||
| simple | rentrant /ʁɑ̃.tʁɑ̃/ | ||||||
| compound | ayant or étant + past participle | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | rentre /ʁɑ̃tʁ/ |
rentres /ʁɑ̃tʁ/ |
rentre /ʁɑ̃tʁ/ |
rentrons /ʁɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/ |
rentrez /ʁɑ̃.tʁe/ |
rentrent /ʁɑ̃tʁ/ |
| imperfect | rentrais /ʁɑ̃.tʁɛ/ |
rentrais /ʁɑ̃.tʁɛ/ |
rentrait /ʁɑ̃.tʁɛ/ |
rentrions /ʁɑ̃.tʁi.jɔ̃/ |
rentriez /ʁɑ̃.tʁi.je/ |
rentraient /ʁɑ̃.tʁɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | rentrai /ʁɑ̃.tʁe/ |
rentras /ʁɑ̃.tʁa/ |
rentra /ʁɑ̃.tʁa/ |
rentrâmes /ʁɑ̃.tʁam/ |
rentrâtes /ʁɑ̃.tʁat/ |
rentrèrent /ʁɑ̃.tʁɛʁ/ | |
| future | rentrerai /ʁɑ̃.tʁə.ʁe/ |
rentreras /ʁɑ̃.tʁə.ʁa/ |
rentrera /ʁɑ̃.tʁə.ʁa/ |
rentrerons /ʁɑ̃.tʁə.ʁɔ̃/ |
rentrerez /ʁɑ̃.tʁə.ʁe/ |
rentreront /ʁɑ̃.tʁə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | rentrerais /ʁɑ̃.tʁə.ʁɛ/ |
rentrerais /ʁɑ̃.tʁə.ʁɛ/ |
rentrerait /ʁɑ̃.tʁə.ʁɛ/ |
rentrerions /ʁɑ̃.tʁə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
rentreriez /ʁɑ̃.tʁə.ʁje/ |
rentreraient /ʁɑ̃.tʁə.ʁɛ/ | |
| (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 | rentre /ʁɑ̃tʁ/ |
rentres /ʁɑ̃tʁ/ |
rentre /ʁɑ̃tʁ/ |
rentrions /ʁɑ̃.tʁi.jɔ̃/ |
rentriez /ʁɑ̃.tʁi.je/ |
rentrent /ʁɑ̃tʁ/ |
| imperfect2 | rentrasse /ʁɑ̃.tʁas/ |
rentrasses /ʁɑ̃.tʁas/ |
rentrât /ʁɑ̃.tʁa/ |
rentrassions /ʁɑ̃.tʁa.sjɔ̃/ |
rentrassiez /ʁɑ̃.tʁa.sje/ |
rentrassent /ʁɑ̃.tʁas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir or être + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir or être + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | rentre /ʁɑ̃tʁ/ |
— | rentrons /ʁɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/ |
rentrez /ʁɑ̃.tʁe/ |
— | |
| 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 Only usable with preposition en. | |||||||
| 2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Further reading
- “rentrer” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Norman
Etymology
From Old French re- (“again”) + entrer (“to enter”).
Pronunciation
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