renvoyer
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʁɑ̃.vwa.je/
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Verb
renvoyer
- to resend; to send again
- to send back (to give back to the original sender)
- to give back, throw back, post back, bounce back, swing back etc.
- to put off, postpone (an appointment, a duty)
- to reflect (i.e. of a reflective surface)
- to echo (of sound, to come back)
- (transitive) to fire, dismiss, expel a student
- (followed by the preposition à) to refer (somebody to something)
- to remind (somebody of something)
Conjugation
This verb is one of a few verbs that conjugate like noyer, except in the future and conditional, where they conjugate like voir.
Conjugation of renvoyer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| present participle | renvoyant /ʁɑ̃.vwa.jɑ̃/ | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| past participle | renvoyé /ʁɑ̃.vwa.je/ | ||||||
| infinitive | |||||||
| simple | renvoyer | ||||||
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| gerund1 | |||||||
| simple | renvoyant /ʁɑ̃.vwa.jɑ̃/ | ||||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | renvoie /ʁɑ̃.vwa/ |
renvoies /ʁɑ̃.vwa/ |
renvoie /ʁɑ̃.vwa/ |
renvoyons /ʁɑ̃.vwa.jɔ̃/ |
renvoyez /ʁɑ̃.vwa.je/ |
renvoient /ʁɑ̃.vwa/ |
| imperfect | renvoyais /ʁɑ̃.vwa.jɛ/ |
renvoyais /ʁɑ̃.vwa.jɛ/ |
renvoyait /ʁɑ̃.vwa.jɛ/ |
renvoyions /ʁɑ̃.vwaj.jɔ̃/ |
renvoyiez /ʁɑ̃.vwaj.je/ |
renvoyaient /ʁɑ̃.vwa.jɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | renvoyai /ʁɑ̃.vwa.je/ |
renvoyas /ʁɑ̃.vwa.ja/ |
renvoya /ʁɑ̃.vwa.ja/ |
renvoyâmes /ʁɑ̃.vwa.jam/ |
renvoyâtes /ʁɑ̃.vwa.jat/ |
renvoyèrent /ʁɑ̃.vwa.jɛʁ/ | |
| future | renverrai /ʁɑ̃.vɛ.ʁe/ |
renverras /ʁɑ̃.vɛ.ʁa/ |
renverra /ʁɑ̃.vɛ.ʁa/ |
renverrons /ʁɑ̃.vɛ.ʁɔ̃/ |
renverrez /ʁɑ̃.vɛ.ʁe/ |
renverront /ʁɑ̃.vɛ.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | renverrais /ʁɑ̃.vɛ.ʁɛ/ |
renverrais /ʁɑ̃.vɛ.ʁɛ/ |
renverrait /ʁɑ̃.vɛ.ʁɛ/ |
renverrions /ʁɑ̃.vɛ.ʁjɔ̃/ |
renverriez /ʁɑ̃.vɛ.ʁje/ |
renverraient /ʁɑ̃.vɛ.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 | renvoie /ʁɑ̃.vwa/ |
renvoies /ʁɑ̃.vwa/ |
renvoie /ʁɑ̃.vwa/ |
renvoyions /ʁɑ̃.vwaj.jɔ̃/ |
renvoyiez /ʁɑ̃.vwaj.je/ |
renvoient /ʁɑ̃.vwa/ |
| imperfect2 | renvoyasse /ʁɑ̃.vwa.jas/ |
renvoyasses /ʁɑ̃.vwa.jas/ |
renvoyât /ʁɑ̃.vwa.ja/ |
renvoyassions /ʁɑ̃.vwa.ja.sjɔ̃/ |
renvoyassiez /ʁɑ̃.vwa.ja.sje/ |
renvoyassent /ʁɑ̃.vwa.jas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | renvoie /ʁɑ̃.vwa/ |
— | renvoyons /ʁɑ̃.vwa.jɔ̃/ |
renvoyez /ʁɑ̃.vwa.je/ |
— | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + 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). | |||||||
Derived terms
Further reading
- “renvoyer” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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